![]() ![]() Shannon Doherty put the finishing touches on UCF’s prolific offensive outing with an RBI single to center field that gave the ‘Nauts their 11th unanswered run. Cody drove in the Knights’ sixth score with her 10th career triple, breaking a tie with Denali Schappacher and moving into a tie with Natalie Land for fourth on the UCF all-time list, while also surpassing Schappacher on the all-time hits list with the 228th of her career, good for fifth-most in program history.Īfter the veteran utility player scored on a wild pitch, Humphreys and Chloe Evans executed a double steal, the former swiping home plate to score the Citronauts’ eighth run before Stormy Kotzelnick tacked on two more with a double to right field. Not unlike the Knights’ Friday run-rule victory over the Tigers, UCF again enjoyed a six-run inning that proved vital in ending the contest after five innings. “She can run, she can hit, she can throw, she can field the best is yet to come for her.” “She’s dynamic, she can be loud, she can be the quiet thunder at times, and she can do a lot of things,” said head coach Cindy Ball-Malone of Humphreys. With her standout offensive efforts, Humphreys recorded the first multi-extra-base hit game of her young career as well as her first triple, notching a season-high five RBI and seven total bases, accompanied by a pair of stolen bags on the basepaths, as the catalyst for the Knights offense. The freshman infielder wasn’t finished, coming through again in the home half of the second with a bases-clearing triple down the right field line that plated Aubrey Evans, Johneisha Rowe and Shannon Doherty to give UCF its first lead of the game, 5-3. I was just trying to move her, and somehow it went over the fence.” ![]() “Jada did a good job getting on base and passing the bat to me, trusting me to do my job. ![]() “I was just following coach Becca (Mueller)’s plan, she always comes to us with a plan for the pitcher and I was going off her,” Humphreys said. The two-run shot represented the first of many dents in Princeton’s (5-3) early 3-0 first-inning advantage. The Corona, California, native strode to the plate with Jada Cody on second base following the latter’s leadoff single, and despite falling behind in the count, hooked an 0-2 offering just inside the left field foul pole for her first collegiate home run. On the heels of a 53-minute rain delay in the bottom of the first inning that forced UCF (10-7) to wait just a bit longer than expected to take its first hacks at the plate, Humphreys put her team on her back in aiding the Knights, donning their SpaceU Canaveral blue ‘Nauts uniforms, to their first come-from-behind win when trailing by three or more runs this spring. Humphreys enjoyed one of her best all-around displays thus far in leading her squad to its second run-rule victory in its last three games. Opens in a new window Sign Up For TextsĪn apt description of Knights freshman Sierra Humphreys’ game given by the infielder herself following the UCF softball team’s 11-3 victory over Princeton at the UCF Softball Complex Saturday afternoon. ![]()
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