Word: springered
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Erin Jancic, the Wildcat baserunner at third, had jumped off third base before the ball was caught. She ran home anyway, beating Whitton's throw to the plate. Senior third baseman Crystal Springer, who had been standing right on third base at the time, was certain that Jancic never tagged. Junior pitcher Chelsea Thoke tossed the ball to Springer who tagged third, and the umpire flashed the out sign. The Crimson defense walked off of the field, apparently out of the inning...
...Harvard defense fell apart from there. With a runner at third and one out, the Crimson psyched out Wildcat Rane Gunderson at third and caught her in a rundown. When the ball made its way to Springer, she chose to chase the runner home. Upon realizing that Gunderson was a bit faster than she expected, Springer threw the ball to junior Mairead McKendry at home, but the throw merely ricocheted off of McKendry's face, and Gunderson scored...
Thoke settled down and pitched out of the inning. The next Oklahoma batter attempted a suicide squeeze, but senior third baseman Crystal Springer managed to run down the ball and toss it to McKendry for the force at home. Thoke then struck out Ring...
Harvard swung their bats aggressively against Big 12 pitcher Lana Moran, but the Crimson managed just two hits. Springer's bunt single to lead off the fourth and McKendry's double deep off of the left-center fence were the only hits Harvard could manage...
...inning finally ended when junior pinch-hitter Jen Crusius hit a grounder and Springer was forced out at second. That inning would provide all the scoring Harvard would get on the day, and all the scoring it needed...