A Sea Of Red

Double header today. Two 10 inning games.

Top of 10, LU 22 UL 0

Wow!

LU won game 1, 22-0. Autumn Bishop had 3 hits with 7 RBIs. Amber Bishop had 4 hits. Via had 3 hits. The freshmen swung bat well . Keontta had 2 hits.Baela and Griffin had hits. Griffin started both games at shortstop, She will provide depth at infield positions. Cassidy, Cooper and Engler pitched. Cassidy and Cooper4 innings and Engler 2 innings. All 3 threw ball good.
In game 2, LU lead 9-0 after 5 innings. Engler and DiMartino pitching.

Granted UL is a Division 3 school, but LU looked good today. There were a couple errors in infield, but its September .

I find it amusing that the NCAA severly restricts how many Fall games teams can play, but allow them to arbitrarily decide they will be for 10 innings each instead of 7. This double header will be just one inning short of 3 normal games. Obviously, they also waived the run rule.

Fall softball (and baseball) do have weird rules. Softball is thankful they can play 8 games. I was told that Division III schools can only play "one" day in the fall. Thus, I think that's why LU and UL played 2 10 inning games. The more you can play, the more the Coaching Staff can evaluate players, especially the newcomers to the roster. Also helps determine weaknesses that you can work on during the winter. If there was a "run rule" in the fall, players would not get as many innings and plate appearances.

as for baseball, they can only play 2 games in the fall.