Lady Spartans will open State against Lansing
By The Emporia Gazette (Contact)
Monday, March 9, 2009
Lady Spartans will open State against Lansing
The Emporia High girls were seeded fifth for this week’s Class 5A State basketball tournament at the Kansas Expocentre in Topeka and will open State play against fourth-seeded Lansing.
The Lady Spartans (18-4) and the Lions (19-3) will tip off at 4:45 p.m. Wednesday in the tournament’s second game. The first will be top-seeded Liberal (21-1) taking on eighth-seeded Great Bend (15-7) at 3 p.m. The winners of those two games will meet in Friday’s 3 p.m. semifinal.
On the lower side of the bracket, second-seeded Carroll (20-2) will play seventh-seeded Aquinas (16-6) at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, and third-seeded Miege (20-2) will play Shawnee Heights (16-6) at 8:15 p.m. The semifinal featuring the winners of those two games will tip off at 6:30 p.m. Friday.
The third-place game will be at noon Saturday. The State title game will be at 4 p.m.
ESU softball team splits two
The Emporia State softball team split two games at Missouri-St. Louis on Sunday, beating Wisconsin-Parkside 8-0 in the first game and dropping the second to host Missouri-St. Louis by a 2-1 final.
The Hornets scored all eight of their first-game runs in the first two innings, led by Jennifer Dace’s three-run double in the second. Megan Dennis won her fifth game, striking out six batters in five innings and allowing one hit.
ESU had three errors in the Game-Two loss. The Hornets’ only run came on an Abby Hughes home run in the first inning. Jennifer Heery went six innings for Emporia State, striking out five and allowing just four hits.
The Hornets will open their home season this weekend at the ESU Spring Tournament, which begins Friday at the Trusler Sports Complex.