Posted By: Simon Elfrink
February 18, 2021
Jakob Milani
jmilani@murraystate.edu
Softball season is underway as the Murray State softball team kicked their season off in the Southern Mississippi tournament on Feb. 13 and 14.
The Racers lost three of their four games in the tournament over the weekend, including two losses to Southern Illinois University and another loss to University of Southern Mississippi.
Game One
The Racers started the weekend against the Southern Illinois University Salukis, a game they lost 3-1. Junior right-hander Hannah James got the start on the mound for Murray State and struggled early, walking the first batter and allowing a hit from freshman right fielder Bailey Caylor in the first inning. However, the Salukis weren’t able to score until the fifth inning when graduate student Maddy Vermejan scored on a fielding error that also allowed for Caylor to reach first. The Salukis scored again the next at-bat when senior first-basemen Jenny Jansen do
University Farms works through winter weather together
Unmute
CARBONDALE (WSIL) Bitter cold and snow is responsible for hundreds of closings in the region this week, but students in the University Farms program at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, haven t had a break.
More than 200 animals rely on those students to care for them and keep them safe, a responsibility which keeps a small team of students from having a Snow Day, just yet.
Garrett Hartke, a Senior at SIU enrolled in the Crop, Soil & Environmental Management program says they work in shifts, around the clock. If it was just me plowing the snow, or one of the other guys, we wouldn t have got it done, says Hartke. We had to work as a team and if it wasn t for everybody here just busting our butts to make sure everything was open up, and everybody could get out there, it wouldn t have been possible.