TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (April 19) – Sophomore pitcher Kyaira Brown won her 10th straight decision Thursday afternoon, leading the FAMU Softball team past visiting North Florida, 2-1 at the FAMU Softball Complex.
Brown, a graduate of Tallahassee's Godby High School, improved to 14-9 on the year, having not lost since a 1-0 setback to Princeton on March 17. She scattered five UNF hits Thursday, striking out seven against no walks, allowing a seventh inning run.
FAMU (20-24) scored its two runs in the bottom of the fifth, when Tyra Bowers hit a one-out triple, later scoring on a throwing error on a grounder by Jamesia Stoudemire, who advanced to second on the throw, before coming home on Taylor Rosier's RBI single down the left field line.'
UNF (22-26) got their only tally of the game in the top of the seventh, when Kayla McGory homered to left field to lead off the frame. The Ospreys managed three of their five hits on the day in the seventh, but left two runners stranded to end the game.
Rosier and Bowers each had a pair of hits, with Stoudemire collecting the lone other safety for FAMU, which finished with five hits Thursday.
WHAT'S ON DECK: FAMU is off until next weekend, Saturday and Sunday, April 28 and 29, when they host rival Bethune-Cookman in the regular season-ending series., needing one victory to claim back-to-back MEAC Southern Division