Michigan State University
0-3
Alabama
2-0
Softball Concludes Day Two at Candrea Classic
2/7/2025 6:47:00 PM | Softball
Michigan State moves to 0-4 to start the 2025 season and looks to get into the win column on Saturday when it meets Western Michigan for a rematch at 2:00 p.m. ET in its final game of the Candrea Classic.
Game One - #11 Alabama 6, Michigan State 2
Michigan State matched the No. 11-ranked Crimson Tide hit for hit in game one with six different Spartans recording base knocks. Both teams finished the game with seven hits on the day. Sophomore Hannah Greer had her best performance in the Green & White to date going 2-for-3 at the plate with her first career home run.
Freshman Jacey Schuler (0-1) made her second start of the season pitching 4.0 innings against Alabama allowing three earned runs on just three hits. Schuler was relieved by senior Faith Guidry who tossed the final 2.0 innings of action allowing two earned runs.
Alabama took an early 1-0 lead following a solo home run in the first inning, but the top of Michigan State's batting order tied things up in the third. Junior Sydney Doloszycki's single to left scored the pinching running freshman Ava Coffinger, who tallied the first run scored of her collegiate career.
T3 | Michigan State 1 - #11 Alabama 1
— Michigan State Softball (@MSU_Softball) February 7, 2025
Syd ties it up with an RBI single to left!
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Junior Kaelin Cash and senior Mik Anthony singled for MSU in the fourth, but the Spartans couldn't keep the momentum going. The Crimson Tide added two runs to their tally in the fourth and fifth innings before a solo home run extended the lead to 6-1 in the sixth.
Greer stepped up to the plate with one out in the seventh, belting her first career home run to left, cutting into the Alabama lead.
T7 | #11 Alabama 6 - Michigan State 2
— Michigan State Softball (@MSU_Softball) February 7, 2025
See ya!
Hannah Greer sends one over the left field fence for her first career home run!
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Game Two – Western Michigan 8, Michigan State 0 (6 inn.)
Senior Madison Taylor (0-2) started in the circle against Western Michigan for game two of the day, tossing 1.1 innings and striking out one alongside three earned runs.
Taylor was relieved by freshman Carsyn Cassady who went 2.1 innings in the circle allowing two earned runs before giving way to fellow freshman Ella Cunningham, who recorded her first career strikeout in 2.0 innings of work with three earned runs. Sophomore Ava Mullen recorded the final out for MSU in the sixth.
T5 | WMU 6 - Michigan State 0
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First career strikeout for Ella Cunningham in the circle!
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Michigan State got a pair of hits from junior Britain Beshears and sophomore Kendall Smiley. Beshears reached base twice, drawing a first inning walk to go with her third inning single through the left side. Senior Mik Anthony reached base in the second via walk.
Western Michigan singled its way to three runs in the third inning before tacking on three more runs in the fourth on a sac fly, single and wild pitch. The Broncos added a pair of insurance runs in the sixth which included a solo homer.
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Catelyn Riley (1-0)
L: Schuler, Jacey (0-1)
Batting:
HR: Greer, Hannah 1
RBI: Doloszycki, Sydney 1 ; Greer, Hannah 1
SH: Smiley, Kendall 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Coffinger, Ava 1 ; Greer, Hannah 1
CS: Doloszycki, Sydney 1
Batting:
2B: Marlie Giles 1
HR: Marlie Giles 1 ; Catelyn Riley 1
RBI: Alexis Pupillo 1 ; Marlie Giles 2 ; Catelyn Riley 2 ; Mari Hubbard 1
SF: Catelyn Riley 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Kinley Pate 1 ; Marlie Giles 1 ; Kendal Clark 1 ; Larissa Preuitt 1 ; Catelyn Riley 1 ; Kristen White 1
SB: Kinley Pate 1 ; Audrey Vandagriff 1
CS: Mari Hubbard 1
