South Florida Outlasts Michigan in 11-Inning Marathon

Saturday, February 26

Tampa, Fla.

2:00 PM

Michigan

4-3-1

South Florida

6-15

Michigan

South Florida

South Florida Outlasts Michigan in 11-Inning Marathon

2/26/2000 12:00:00 AM | Softball

Box Score

Site: Tampa, Fla. (USF Softball Complex)
Event: USF/Gladstone's Tournament
Results: South Florida 2, #9 Michigan 1 (11 innings); #9 Michigan vs. Indiana, postponed
Record: U-M (5-3)
Next U-M Game: Sunday, Feb. 27 -- vs. South Carolina (noon), vs. Indiana (4 p.m.) at Gladstone's Tournament (Tampa, Fla.)

TAMPA, Fla. -- Unranked South Florida used a right-centerfield single in the bottom of the 11th inning to upset the No. 9-ranked University of Michigan softball team 2-1 Saturday afternoon (Feb. 26) in second-day action at the USF/Gladstone's Tournament. The Wolverines' game vs. Indiana was postponed and rescheduled for Sunday (Feb. 27) at 4 p.m.

The teams played scoreless softball through eight innings, neither one able to string together hits for runs. Michigan (5-3) broke the deadlock in the top of the ninth when a one-out single by shortstop Rebecca Tune (Aloha, Ore./Jesuit HS) drove in pinch runner Lisa Mack (Saline, Mich./Saline HS) from second base. South Florida came back in the bottom of the ninth to tie the game 1-1. The Bulls held the Wolverines in the 10th and 11th, then pushed the game winning run across in the bottom of the 11th with a one-out shot to the outfield that scored the runner from second.

Sophomore Kate Eiland (Fresno, Calif./Clovis West HS) threw the first four innings for Michigan, allowing seven hits. Marie Barda (Darien, Ill./Hinsdale South HS) relieved Eiland in the fifth and took the loss (1-2). She tossed four strikeouts while allowing three hits and two runs, both unearned. Jamie Peterka went the distance in the USF victory.

Michigan recorded its third straight double-digit hits game, scattering 10 singles to bring its three-game Gladstone's Tournament total to 36 hits. Tune had her best hitting game of the season, going 3-for-5 with an RBI. Kelsey Kollen (Cerritos, Calif./Santa Ana Mater Dei HS) was 2-for-5.

The Wolverines will close out tournament play with a pair of games Sunday (Feb. 27), facing No. 22 South Carolina at noon and Big Ten rival Indiana at 4 p.m.

Maize 'n Blue Diamond Gems

The 11-inning game vs. South Florida ties as the 10th longest game in Michigan softball history. The Wolverines now total 10 games lasting 11 innings. The record for longest game is 16 innings set April 28, 1984, in a 9-6 win vs. Big Ten rival Ohio State.

Pam Kosanke (Chesterfield, Mo./Parkway Central HS) kept her season hit streak alive with a single against South Florida. The senior co-captain has a hit in all eight games this season, a career-best hit streak.

All three Michigan losses this season have been one-run games. U-M is 1-3 in one-run games through the first eight games of the 2000 campaign. . . . South Florida evened the all-time softball series vs. Michigan at 4-4 with the win. The two teams meet again on Tuesday (Feb. 29) in a 5 p.m. doubleheader at USF.

Contact: Amy Carlton (734) 763-4423