Eastern Michigan softball takes the beating stick to Ohio U

In a game that just finished up over at Varsity Field, EMU skunked Ohio U 8-0 on Alumni Day. Jaclyn Caro was brilliant, in 6 innings she scattered four hits and issued no walks. Even more impressive was the fact she had only one strikeout and induced 10 ground balls and 5 pop ups. Masterful pitching. The team had plenty of offense to go around and plenty from Jenny Scherer who was 3-4 with a home run and RBI, Lauren Delapaz who was 2-3 with an RBI and Stacie Skodinski who homered and knocked in 2. EMU also got RBI's from Stephanie Sabo and Brooke Carpenter. Eastern improves to 11-23 and has won 2 in a row.

Eastern is home again tomorrow in their final Varsity Field appearance in 2008. First pitch 1 pm.

Yesterday was baseball, today is EMU vs. U-M in softball

Eastern Michigan will travel over to Tree City this evening for a 6 pm game vs the #6 ranked Michigan women's softball team. EMU is 0-4 vs ranked opponenets this year but DO have a history of being able to pull the upset beating #21 Louisville in 2006 and #2 Florida State in 2004.

Michigan has a phenomenal lineup with 5 hitters with better than a .300 average and top flight pitching with the tandem of Jordan Taylor (20-2, 0.51 ERA) and Nikki Nemitz (18-2, 0.75 ERA). Pick your poison. Offensively Eastern is led by Jenny Scherer with 7 home runs and a cool .315 average, alongside Ashley Strauss, Heather Giroux, and Stacie Skodinski.

Eastern will have to play a near perfect game to win but then again, that's what they said about the 1980 US Olympic hockey team vs Russia.

EMU returns home this weekend for THREE big games on Friday vs Akron at 1pm, Saturday at 2pm vs Ohio and then again Sunday at 1 pm vs Ohio.

EMU Softball opens at home this Tuesday

Johnny's a long-time Eastern Michigan softball fan. The tournament win over Central Michigan was a great moment in EMU sports history. Oh Johnny actually tried out for the EMU baseball team at one time, made the first cut in fact and still loves a May evening or three at Oestrike Stadium but really really enjoys the view at Varsity Field in spring and the chanting and vim and vigor the gals have.

Home opener vs the Cleveland State Vikings at 2pm at Varsity Field. And Eastern Michigan fans, you not only get ONE game for a home opener, no, friend-o, you get TWO games (weather permitting and watch this space later where we tell you we're supposed to get 2 inches of snow Tuesday).

EMU is 7-12 and coming off a 12-4 beat down of Woodsy Owl (And at some point we'll stop telling you that means Bowling Green so write that down) Friday in Columbus, O.

Freshman Stacie Skodinski went 3-for-4 with a home run, a double and a single and 3 RBI's.