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University of Nebraska - Kearney Athletics

Loper SB
Gary Breedlove
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Winner Nebraska Kearney UNKSOFT 26-29, 7-14 MIAA
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Newman NEWMAN 15-36, 3-18 MIAA
Winner
Nebraska Kearney UNKSOFT
26-29, 7-14 MIAA
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Final
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Newman NEWMAN
15-36, 3-18 MIAA
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Nebraska Kearney UNKSOFT 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 4 7 2
Newman NEWMAN 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 5 0

W: Gaynor, Faith (7-11) L: M. Dewit (4-12)

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Nebraska Kearney UNKSOFT 16-30, 7-15 MIAA
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Winner Newman NEWMAN 16-36, 4-18 MIAA
Nebraska Kearney UNKSOFT
16-30, 7-15 MIAA
4
Final
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Newman NEWMAN
16-36, 4-18 MIAA
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Nebraska Kearney UNKSOFT 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 4 7 2
Newman NEWMAN 2 0 0 1 5 0 X 8 10 1

W: J. Gold (8-10) L: Galli, Gianna (1-5)

Game Recap: Softball |

Saturday Split in Wichita

Kearney, Neb. – True freshman Faith Gaynor threw six innings of strong relief and senior Katie Gosker belted two more home runs as Nebraska-Kearney split a double header with Newman, winning game one 4-3 and dropping game two, 8-4, Saturday in Wichita.

The Lopers (16-30, 7-15) finish up the 2023 regular season next weekend at home when Northeastern State and defending national champion Rogers State come to Patriot Park.

Gaynor (Riverbank, Calif.) earned her seventh win by allowing just two earned runs on five hits and no walks over the final six innings in the early contest. She threw 101 pitches and blanked the Jets (16-36, 4-18) until two-run rally in the seventh. With the tying run standing at second, Gaynor got a pop up to short and a flyout to center to end the game.

UNK scored single runs in the first and third innings and added two big insurance runs in the sixth. Gosker (2 for 2) hit career dinger number 31 in the third with Lincoln sophomore and right fielder Lyndsey Roth smacking a two-out, two-run double to center in the sixth. Also for the Lopers, Lincoln first baseman Leah Jurgens went 2 for 3 with a run scored.

NU scored two runs in the bottom of the first in game two to never trail. The busted open a 3-2 game with a five-run fifth that featured four walks, two singles and a Loper error. The cleanup and five-hole hitters were a combined 5 for 8 with three RBI's and two runs scored with Division I transfer Jackie Gold tossing a complete game seven-hitter. She won for the eighth time by allowing two earned over a healthy 129 pitches.

Gaynor didn't allow an earned run in two innings of relief work with leadoff hitter and shortstop Sydney Thomason (Ripon, Calif.) going 2 for 4. Finally, Gosker went yard in the sixth.
 

Lopers Career Home Run Leaders
1. 48      Darcie Berry         1997-00
2. 47      Cassie Keck          2008-11
3. 34      Kate Ruwe            2013-16
4. 32     Katie Gosker       2020-23
5. 31      Kathy Nelson        1981-84


 
 
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