University of Houston Round Robin Results

by Duane  Treybig

Oct. 14, 2001 - University of Houston and Texas Storm hosted the U of H Round Robin at the University of Houston Softball field on the University of Houston campus. The beautiful field and it's stadium made the event some special for everyone that attended. The travel teams participating in the round robin included Texas Storm Gold, the ASA Gold National Champion Katy Cruisers, Houston Power Gold, Impact Gold #1, Impact Gold #2 and the Texas Eclipse. 

Impact Gold #1 vs Houston Power. At 9:55 am, Impact Gold played the Houston Power. Impact Gold scored to runs in the first inning, added another run in the second inning and two more runs in the 3rd inning to beat Houston Power 5-0 in the 70 minute game. Amanda Scarbourgh led off the inning for Impact Gold with a single up the middle. Casie Gaskin reach 2nd on an error by the Power third baseman and then stole 2nd base. Texas A&M Commit Rocky Spencer drew a walk to load the bases. Megan Gibson hit a hard grounder to Kristina Sheppard who threw home for the force out at the plate. Christa Raley then hit a two RBI double to the gap between right field and center. Houston Power pitcher, Dana Brill retired the next two batters with strike-outs.

In the 2nd inning, Natalie Ramirez drew a walk. Alissa Harper was out for bunting the pitch foul on her 3rd strike. Crystal Smith struck-out. Amanda Scarbourgh then delivered a single in the gap between center and right field in which Natalie Ramirez scored on. The next batter struck-out to end the inning. 

In the 3rd inning, Rocky Spencer walked and advanced to 2nd on Megan Gibson's sacrifice bunt. Christa Raley flew out to the left fielder. Crystal Fullen walked. Kelly Corliss hit a grounder to the Power third baseman who threw high to 1st base. Both Rocky Spencer and Megan Gibson scored on the play. Both Natalie Ramirez and Allissa Harper drew walks before Crystal Smith grounded out to the pitcher to end the inning.

Dana Brill pitched the whole game for Houston Power. Dana had three strike-outs, 6 walks and gave up 3 hits. Dana three mainly drops with a few screws and curves sprinkled in. College Sports Exposure radar Dana drops at 57-59 mph.

Amanda Scarborough pitched all 3 innings for Impact. She had 3 strike-outs, a walk and gave-up one hit. College Sports Exposure radar Amanda throwing 63 mph most of the time. Amanda struck-out one batter with a drop. She also threw some screw balls and curve balls. 

Amy Krueger go the only hit for Power. She hit a double in the third inning.

Texas Storm vs. Impact Gold #1. In the 11:20 am game Texas Storm tied Impact Gold, 
1 to 1. Storm got their run in the first inning. Joey Scarf walked, Emily Lederer advanced Joey to 2nd on a perfectly executed sacrifice bunt that rolled down the 1st base line. Laura Durham then drove Joey in with a stand-up double in the gap between left and center field. Laci Howard then hit a rocket shot to the right field fence that was somehow caught for out number three. It was an incredible hard hit ball.

Impact Gold countered by also scoring in the first inning. After Amanda Scarbough struck-out, Casie Gaskin hit a grounder to the 3rd baseman who was off target on the throw to first. Rocky Spencer grounded out to the pitcher. Then Megan Gibson hit a grounder to the short stop who made a bad throw when trying to get Casie out at third. Casie scored on the play. Christa Raley then flew out to the center fielder to end the inning. 

Brittany Faske pitched the whole 4 inning game for the Storm. Brittany struck-out 3 batters, hit one batter and gave up 2 hits, one of which came on a bunt. Brittany pitched a brilliant game by keeping Impact batters off balance with her change-up, screw ball, drop and curve. 

Amanda Scarbourgh and Natalie Ramirez got the two hits for Impact. Natalie had a bunt single in the second inning and Amanda led off the 3rd inning with a single to left field. 

A vastly improved Crystal Smith pitched all four innings for Impact. I had seen Crystal pitch for the Texas Challengers several years ago. She was throwing about 54-56 mph then. College Sports Exposure radar Crystal's fastball at 59 mph and her curve at 56 mph. Crystal had no strike-outs, 3 walks and gave up only one hit, the double to Laura Durham in the first inning.

Texas Storm vs Katy Cruisers. At 2:00 pm, Texas Storm played the Katy Cruisers to a 1-1 tie. Storm scored first. With two outs in the 2nd inning, Short Stop Emily Lederer reached first base on an error by the 2nd baseman. Second baseman LeClaire Ebow then hit a bloop single over the pitchers head. Emily scored when Monica Garcia hit a grounder to the first baseman who mishandled the catch for an error. Joey Scarf then grounded out to short stop Kelly Osburn to end the inning.

LeClaire and Paige Schwab led the hitting attacking for the Storm. Le Claire singled in the 4th inning to center field. Paige hit a line drive single to right field in the 1st inning and a line drive single between third and short stop in the 5th inning. Paige is leading the Storm with a batting average over 400 this Fall. 

Emily Lederer added a single for the Storm in the 4th inning.

The Katy Cruisers tied the game in the 4th inning. With two outs, Leigh Ann Danos doubled in the gap between left and center field. Kelly Osburn hit a line drive single over the first baseman's head. Leigh Ann scored on Kelly's single. 

Brittany Hodge and Jessica Denham hit back to back singles for the Cruisers in the 3rd inning. Brittany hit her single to left field and Jessica hit her single to right field. University of Texas at Austin Commit Tina Boutelle flied out to left field to end the inning.

Sarah Lancour pitched all 4 innings for the Storm. Today it was a different Sarah Lancour than the one that helped the Storm shut-out the Cruisers in an exhibition game at the 18U Gold Qualifier in Katy, Texas this past summer. In the exhibition game, Sarah relied on a 61-62 mph fastball and curve ball. Today, Sarah relied on a steady diet of her knuckle-change, screw ball and curve ball. Sarah didn't throw a single fastball. College Sports Exposure radar Sarah's screw ball between 58 and 61 mph. Her knuckle-change was radar between 46-48 mph. 
Sarah pitched to 16 batters, struck-out one, walked none and gave up 4 hits.

Jessica Denham pitched all 5 innings for the Cruisers. She pitched to 22 Storm batters, striking out 2, walking none and giving up 5 singles. Jessica relied mostly on a curve ball. College Sports Exposure radar the curve between 61-63 mph.