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Lynsey Tucker
Bonnie Ryan
1
Iowa State ISU 0-1
5
Winner Omaha OMAHA 1-0
Iowa State ISU
0-1
1
Final
5
Omaha OMAHA
1-0
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Iowa State ISU 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 2
Omaha OMAHA 1 0 2 0 2 0 0 5 4 1

W: Meyer, Kamryn (1-0) L: Swain (0-1)

6
Winner Omaha OMAHA 2-0
5
Northern Iowa UNI 0-1
Winner
Omaha OMAHA
2-0
6
Final
5
Northern Iowa UNI
0-1
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E
Omaha OMAHA 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 6 13 0
Northern Iowa UNI 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 5 6 0

W: Nuismer, Sydney (1-0) L: Heyer,S (0-1)

Game Recap: Softball |

Omaha Softball Sweeps Opening Day

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa - The Omaha softball team swept opening day action with a 5-1 win over Iowa State and a 6-5 win vs. UNI in extra innings. Lynsey Tucker had a day at the plate finished 7-for-8, including a career-best performance of 5-for-5 vs. UNI.

The Mavericks improve to 2-0 after the first day of action.

Game One: Omaha 5, Iowa State 1
How It Happened
  • Both teams tallied runs in the first inning. The Cyclones got theirs following a stolen base - error combo that set up Ramos for the sac fly to score Spelhaug. Marra Cramer then tied it for Omaha who was walked in on Ava Rongisch's at-bat.
  • Lynsey Tucker opened the bottom of the third with a lead-off single. She then scored on Rachel Weber's homer that helped the Mavericks to a 3-1 lead.
  • Emma Durr plated two more Maverick runners in the fifth. Tucker reached on an error, while Weber got on by a fielder's choice. Both scored on Durr's double making it 5-1.
  • ISU had one more hit in the game, but Omaha ran away with the first win of the season. 5-1.
Game Notes
  • Durr recorded her first career double. She tallied two RBI.
  • Tucker finished with two hits and two runs scored.
  • Weber had two runs and two RBI.
  • Cramer, Durr, Rongisch, and Alex Olson all made their first career starts.
  • Kamryn Meyer pitched a complete game earning her first win. She recorded 10 strikeouts.
  • With those 10 Ks, Meyer moves up to fourth all-time in career strikeouts at 505. 


Game Two: Omaha 6, UNI 5 (8 innings)
How It Happened
  • The second game had a bit more action from the start for Omaha. Tucker and Weber got on base in the first inning with Tucker scoring the first run on a passed ball. 
  • UNI quickly tied it 1-1 with a lead-off homer from Dodge. Hogan then doubled the lead with a RBI single to plate Parks.
  • The Panthers held on to the lead until Sydney Ross sent a rocket for a two-run homer and a 3-2 Omaha lead.
  • The lead didn't last long with UNI swinging momentum in its favor in the bottom of the third. Erpelding entered the game to pinch run following a walk and scored later in the inning off a fielder's choice situation to tie the game 3-3. Sanders tallied the leading run on a Moss sac fly before the inning ended.
  • Omaha relied once again on Tucker to change the pace of the game in the top of the fourth. She plated O'Brien and knotted the game 4-4 with a single to center.
  • Action halted until the fifth inning when UNI regained a one-run lead. Sanders led off with a triple to center and scored on a sac fly from Snider two at-bats later.
  • Cramer scored the game-tying run on another Tucker at-bat. This time Tucker doubled to right center for a 5-5 tie in the sixth, which eventually forced extra innings.
  • The teams each placed a runner on second in the eighth, but the Mavericks were the only ones to convert. O'Brien got to third on a wild pitch, and she scored the game-winning run on another hit from Tucker.
Game Notes
  • Tucker had a career-game at the plate. She finished 5-for-5. Her five hits and three RBI mark career-highs.
  • Tucker also scored a run.
  • Cramer, Ross, and Sophie Cerveny finished the game with two hits each.
  • The Mavericks totaled 13 hits.
  • Sydney Nuismer earned her first win of the year. She struckout five Panthers.


Up Next
The Mavericks continue play at the UNI Dome Tournament Saturday.  They'll play Drake at 10 a.m. followed by UNI at 12:30 p.m.
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