2017 Fontbonne Softball News
The Griffins had several high points this season. Fontbonne's loss at home against Spalding ended their home win streak, which is a program-record 54 consecutive wins. The Griffins also made it to the SLIAC Tournament for the ninth straight year and garnered five postseason accolades.
The tournament's opening day of Thursday was postponed as the entire schedule has been revamped including location changes for Friday.
Cooksey homers twice as Fontbonne sweeps Iowa Wesleyan to earn a last-minute bid to the 2017 SLIAC Softball Tournament, hosted by the Griffins this weekend.
Fontbonne fell to Eureka in game one 4-1 and after holding a 5-0 lead in the second game, Eureka swept the Griffins on a walk-off single in the seventh.
Greenville swept Fontbonne 3-1 in both games Saturday, dropping the Griffins conference record to 9-5 and placing them fourth in the SLIAC standings.
Courtney Kedroski and Maddie Cooksey earned the only Griffin runs on two solo homers as Webster swept Fontbonne in their Big Bend rivalry matchup.
Emelia Modglin recorded the only hit for Fontbonne in game one and scored the only run in game two of a doubleheader at neighboring Washington University in St. Louis.
The Griffins defeated Principia 18-0 in five innings and 8-1. Fontbonne is now 11-11 on the year and lead the SLIAC with a 9-1 conference record.
After suffering their first SLIAC loss (3-0), the Griffins mounted a comeback as they secured five runs in the sixth inning to tie the game 5-5 and won on a walk-off single in the bottom of the seventh against Spalding University.
Fontbonne softball defeated Westminster 6-5 and 4-3 Wednesday evening and are now the only team with an unbeaten conference record within the SLIAC.
Maddy Strickland led the Griffins in the circle as she earned both wins.
Fontbonne fell to #9 Luther 11-3 in five innings but rallied back against Hope after trailing to tie the game 6-6 before the Flying Dutch hit a walk-off single to win the game in the bottom of the seventh with two outs.
