Kirkwood Softball

Kirkwood softball team drops pair

MIAMI, Okla. - The ninth-ranked Kirkwood softball team dropped a doubleheader at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M Sunday, 8-6 and 18-2.

Lexi Quandt hit a home run for the Eagles in the first game. Chasney Jenkins, Tara Walls and Jasmine Ragusi had two hits. Walls and Brooke Prior had two RBIs.

Kirkwood fell to 4-4 for the season.

KCC softball team splits 4 games

ROSEMONT, Minn. - The ninth-ranked Kirkwood softball team finished with a 2-2 record on its trip to Minnesota Friday.

The Eagles lost to Indian Hills (6-5) in their first game on Thursday. They beat Dakota County (13-4), lost to Illinois Central (4-0) and defeated NIACC (10-2) on Friday. The game against Dakota County was finished Friday morning after being suspended in the third inning Thursday night.

The split left Kirkwood with a 4-2 record.

Natalie Clark had two hits against Indian Hills. Chasney Jenkins had two RBIs and two runs.

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No.9 Kirkwood softball team rolls

ROCHESTER, Minn. - The ninth-ranked Kirkwood softball team belted its two opponents by a combined score of 42-1 in the season openers Friday in Rochester (Minn.).

The Eagles blanked Riverland, 17-0, and walloped Rochester Tech, 25-1. Both games lasted only five innings.

Chasney Jenkins went 4-for-4 for Kirkwood in the first game. Tara Walls was 3-for-4 with a home run and three RBIs. Alicia Crivaro was 2-for-3 with a home run and three RBIs. Lexi Quandt was 3-for-3 with a double, triple and three RBIs.

Freshman Nicky Simpson pitched a one-hitter with 11 strikeouts.

Jenkins hit a home run in the second game. Alex Finn was 3-for-5 with a home run and three RBIs. Erin Weno socked a home run and drove in three runs. Lexie Biehl was 4-for-4 with a homer. Brooke Prior went 3-for-3 with two RBIs and four runs.

Freshmen Hannah Cole and Ellie Mengler combined on a three-hitter with six strikeouts.

Kirkwood softball opens in Minnesota

The Kirkwood softball team is heading north this Friday to escape the cold and snow instead of heading south to begin the 2015 campaign, but there's no reason to question their sanity.

The ninth-ranked Eagles will be playing two games Friday inside a bubble in Rochester, Minn., against NIACC and Rochester Tech.

"The good thing about it is, it will be dry but it probably will be 40 degrees," Kirkwood Coach Joe Yegge said Wednesday as the snow fell in Cedar Rapids.

This will be a long one-day excursion for the Eagles. They'll leave for Rochester Friday morning, play their games at 5 p.m. and 7 p.m., then turn around and come home.

Kirkwood returns eight experienced players who helped the Eagles finish 52-8 last season, but three of the top four pitchers are freshmen who are just starting their college careers.

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