Orangewomen Softball to Open Season at Tiger Invitational
2/8/2001 12:37:13 PM | Softball
ORANGEWOMEN READY FOR YEAR TWO The Syracuse softball team begins its second season of competition at the Jameson Inn Tiger Invitational hosted by Auburn University ... Head coach Mary Jo Firnbach's squad recorded a 24-23-1 record in their inaugural season.
HUSKIES FIRST ON THE SLATE The Orangewomen open the season versus the Northern Illinois Huskies. NIU scored a 1-0 extra-inning victory versus Syracuse on March 17, 2000 at the Clearwater Parks and Recreation Tournament in Clearwater, FL ... Tara DiMaggio threw six shutout innings, allowing just three hits for Syracuse ... Missy Bieman suffered the loss despite giving up just one hit in 1.1 innings of work ... Kristen Collins collected two of the Orangewomens five hits in the game.
NEW OPPONENTS AWAIT ORANGEWOMEN AT AUBURN TOURNEY Syracuse will take on three new foes at the Tiger Invitational - host Auburn, Ohio State and Purdue ... The Orangewomen are 16-13 in games versus first-time opponents ... SU is 0-4 all-time versus the SEC (0-4 vs. Alabama) and 0-3 all-time versus the Big Ten (0-1 vs. Minnesota; 0-2 vs. Wisconsin).
PITCHING STAFF RETURNS INTACT The Orangewomen return both pitchers from last years squad ... Tara DiMaggio led the team with 14 wins and a 1.46 ERA ... She also struck out 208 hitters in 191.1 innings pitched ... DiMaggio recorded a perfect game in Syracuses 11-0 win at Buffalo on April 25, 2000 ... Missy Bieman won 10 games for the Orangewomen in 2000, including four complete-game shutouts ... Bieman posted a 4.8 strikeout-to-walk ratio, fanning 96 and walking only 20.
