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Sports Shorts

by Published: Apr 26, 2012

Softball team hit­ting on all cylinders

Six games were played this week for FSU’s soft­ball team, and they came away look­ing bet­ter than ever before. This past Wednesday the team trav­eled to Northwood University for a two-game set, and the Bulldogs ended up win­ning them both by the scores of 6–3 and 13–5, which ended up in a mercy rule in the fifth inning. After the Bulldogs had to post­pone April 20 matches against Saginaw Valley State University because of weather, they took on the Cardinals in four straight games span­ning two days. On Saturday, the Lady Bulldogs took home two vic­to­ries by the score of 5–1 and 8–7 (eight innings), and then on Sunday the Bulldogs won the first game 3–1 and in the sec­ond game fell by the score of 13–12 in 10 innings. The Bulldogs hold a 5–1 record in their last six con­tests and it’s the per­fect time to heat up as the GLIAC tour­na­ment is just around the cor­ner star­ing April 28.

Bulldog run­ners take part in two competitions

Some Bulldog run­ners took part in the Mt. Sac Relays held in California and fared well. Junior Anna Rudd had the best show­ing for FSU as she fin­ished in sec­ond over­all in the 10,000 meter run with a time of 34:51.89 in the open divi­sion. Another strong show­ing for FSU was senior star Tina Muir as she fin­ished sev­enth over­all in the elite divi­sion 10,000 meter run with a time of 33:59.67. The men’s run­ners had one stand­out fin­isher as Ryan Chute fin­ished 36th over­all in the 1,500 meter run in an event that had over 1,300 run­ners. The run­ners who weren’t invited to California for the com­pe­ti­tions rep­re­sented FSU in the Al Owens Classic hosted by Grand Valley State University. Briana Raasio took home the high­est mark for FSU, plac­ing third in the javelin with a dis­tance of 36.64 meters. Senior Justin Price also had an impres­sive per­for­mance earn­ing a sevnth-place fin­ish in the 400 meter run with a time of 49.49 sec­onds. Next on tap for the ath­letes of FSU is the Ashland Invitational next week­end held at
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