While the Missouri Tigers baseball team continues to play Fall Ball games against themselves, the softball Tigers have taken a different approach, facing off the likes of against MO State, Kansas City (formerly UMKC), kansas and Kaskaskia College. And on a beautiful and unseasonably warm Saturday afternoon, the Tigers faced off against Braggin’ Rights rival Illinois, who was 21-31 last season in the Big 10.
While early on it looked like it was going to be a pitching-by-committee duel, Mizzou broke the game open in the bottom of the fourth when Claire Cahalan reached with a big single to left field that hit off the top of the third baseman’s glove before swiping second, and Julia Crenshaw followed with a very long at-bat, forcing a lot of pitches from the Illinois hurler before eventually drawing a walk.