Softball team splits with Miami Dade
The 12th-ranked Eastern Florida State College softball team split a Citrus Conference doubleheader with No. 15 Miami Dade College on Tuesday, losing the first game 13-7 and then won the second game 8-0 and are tied for third place in the Citrus Conference standings
The Eastern Florida State College softball team split a Citrus Conference doubleheader with No. 15 Miami Dade College on Tuesday.
The 12th-ranked Titans lost the first game 13-7 and then won the second game 8-0 and are tied for third place in the Citrus Conference standings.
Sophomore Avery Velazquez allowed just one hit over five shutout innings in the second game to pick up her eighth win of the season. Velazquez struck out seven hitters, retiring the first 10 hitters she faced.
Offensively, the Titans scored twice in the bottom of the first inning as Annalyn Duncan had an RBI double scoring Aracelis Jimenez. Duncan would score on a sacrifice fly by Jaelynne Whipple.
Up 2-0, Isabel Otero drove in two with a triple in the third inning and scored on Brooklyn Scott's RBI single. The Titans would score three more in the fourth inning as Avery Velazquez, Whipple and Madison Velazquez all scored.
Otero drove in three runs and Jimenez had three hits in the win.
In Game 1, Miami Dade scored six times in the second inning, sending 11 players to the plate. They would add two runs in the third inning and then Caroline Mito hit an inside the park home run with two on to give the Sharks a 12-1 lead in the middle of the fourth inning.
The Titans would try and battle back with three runs in the bottom of the fourth highlighted by a two-run double by Avery Velazquez. The Titans would score two more in the fifth inning on a two-run single by Jimenez and another in the seventh.
The Sharks had 14 hits and the Titans committed four errors in the game.
Sofia Reyes and Maria Julia Pedroso were on base four times and scored three times while Mito had three hits
Jimenez finished with three hits.
Avery Velazquez finished with three RBI which equaled her total from last season of 69 and is the program leader in runs batted in with 138 in two seasons.
Eastern Florida State College will host the College of Central Florida on Saturday in the final home doubleheader of the season. The program will honor its sophomore class before the game, beginning around 1:10 p.m. The first game of the doubleheader is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. Admission is free to Titan Softball Complex and fans can watch the sophomore ceremony as well as the games live online at the EFSC Titans YouTube page.
