Hoosiers drop 2 games

The IU softball team said they were in search of consistency before making the trip to Clearwater, Fla., to compete in the Adidas Invitational. But that wasn’t what the Hoosiers got in their two games Thursday against No. 19 Georgia Tech and Massachusetts.\nIU lost both contests, losing to Georgia Tech 16-8 and Massachusetts 8-5. \nThe Hoosiers ran into problems on both sides of the ball that plagued them in their two loses. They had a chance for the win in both instances but let both teams go on huge runs that would end in the Hoosiers’ chances of pulling out a win.\nAgainst Georgia Tech, IU got off to a great start and scored all eight of their runs in the first inning of play. When they couldn’t keep up with the hitting streak, the Yellow Jackets countered with 16 runs throughout the course of the game that went unanswered.\nThough it was a high scoring event the Hoosiers trailed Georgia Tech throughout the game as they controlled from start to finish. \nThe second of the two contests wasn’t a mirror image of the first, though both saw the same outcome. The Hoosiers dominated the game against Massachusetts and they entered the seventh inning with a 5-3 lead behind the hitting of freshman Jennifer Glueckert who went 3-for-4 against the UMass.\nBut the Hoosiers’ dominance would stop there, as they surrendered five runs in the frame before recording an out. The five runs began with Lauren Proctor of Massachusetts, who drew a walk to score Candice Molinari. Stacy Cullington continued the rally when she drilled a 2-2 pitch over the fence in center to complete UMass’s late rally.\nThe Hoosiers had been looking to gain confidence and some form of an identity from this tournament, they said, but the early stages seem as if they will have to go back to the drawing board. IU still has four games left on the weekend and will face Illinois at Chicago in their next contest.