Cardinal Couple: Softball swept by Duke in series finale 15-8 -- MONDAY CARDINAL COUPLE

Monday, March 31, 2025

Softball swept by Duke in series finale 15-8 -- MONDAY CARDINAL COUPLE

-- Daryl here --

Welcome to a new week.

Softball

Do we think Duke wanted to get on the road back to Durham, NC as soon as possible ? Cards said not so fast...

Photo: Jared Anderson

In a game that saw 5 Louisville pitchers (3 for Duke) and a final score of 15-8, this one started off 10-0 Dukies before the Cardinals found some offensive life late into run rule territory. Brooke Gray took the loss to move to 5-6 W-L record on the season. The Cards move to 20-15 (3-9 ACC).

Brooke Gray got the start in the circle for the Cards but after 29 pitches on 7 batters faced, 6 runs on 5 hits given up and only 1 out Head Coach Holly Aprile pulled Gray for Lindsay Mullen but she didn't spend much time there when she faced 4 batters and gave up 4 runs on 1 hit, 2 walks. Sam Booe would come in to clean up the mess where the first Duke batter faced would result in a sac-fly and a groundout to end the half inning.

Louisville took advantage of a fielders choice and a throwing error to finally plate a run in the bottom of the second but Duke responded with a 2 run homer when Aprile put Izzy Harrison in for Booe. Harrison's 3 fly outs would send the Cards back to the dugout. They once again took advantage of Duke error to plate a run on a sac fly making it a painful score of 12-2.

photo: Jared Anderson

It would take Harrison a hard earned 12 pitch strike out in her first batter faced in the top of the 4th but UofL got out of the inning holding the Blue Devils scoreless in the two frames. In the bottom half of the frames, with bases loaded and 2 outs, Bri Despines singled to right field to score 2 RBIs for the Cardinals in the 4th and with 2 outs in the bottom of the fifth taking advantage of a single, a HBP and a walk to load the bases, Ally Alexander doubles to center to clear them all. The Cards would not be done yet as Char Lorenz would single to score Alexander and make it a 12-8 game.

UofL was able to stave off the Dukies for to push it to the final two frames but UofL would score no more runs while the Blue Devils put 3 more on the board. They finished scoring 15 runs on 14 hits. The Cards had 11 hits and committed 4 errors.

UP NEXT

photo: Jared Anderson

WGolf

The UofL women's golf team closed out the Clemson Invitational finishing in 6th place after the final round of action Sunday afternoon aftering holding the spot all weekend.

photo: gocards.com

report from gocards.com

CLEMSON, S.C. — After playing nine holes of the third round on Saturday, the Cardinals closed out the final round with a 5-under-par 283 to finish 15-under-par 849 for the tournament. The 849 team tournament score is tied for second for the lowest team tournament score in program history.

Carmen Griffiths fired a season-low 3-under-par 69 in the final round to finish the tournament tied for 10th overall. She was 7-under-par 209 for the weekend, the lowest tournament score for her since the fall of 2022. Griffiths tallied six birdies over her final round and it is her fourth Top 10 finish of the season.

As Always,
Go Cards
~Daryl

2 comments:

Anonymous3/31/2025 11:09 AM
Who is leading your contest?
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Anonymous3/31/2025 11:30 AM
Imafidon is in the WBB transfer portal, joining Arenas and Harris
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