March 6, 2010
Box Score
Complete Stat Packet: Northern Iowa 2, Idaho State 0 
Tempe, AZ --- It took Kandis Clesson about four batters to get comfortable, and unfortunately it was a little too late, as Northern Iowa scratched single runs in each of the first two innings to nip Idaho State 2-0 in ISU's fourth game of the Wilson/DeMarini Classic at Arizona State.
Clesson was masterful after those first four batters, but ISU couldn't get any semblance of offense against UNI's Jen Larson, who entered the game with a 4-1 record and two shutouts. The Bengals could only scratch out four hits; three singles and a double by Desirae Hoffman. Even the venerable hitting machine Megan Miller was stymied, ending her 15-game hitting streak.
Northern Iowa loaded the bases with no one out in the top of the first on single, a double, and a fielder's choice in which no one was put out, and then a single by Eranna Daugharthy plated the first run, but from there, Clesson was nearly unhittable. She got out of that bases loaded jam by striking out the side swinging, and then she allowed an unearned run to score in the second on a ground out, but that was it.
All told, Clesson allowed just six hits, three after the first, and one earned run while striking out seven.
Idaho State however was never able to solve Larson in her third shutout of the year. ISU ne3ver got more than one runner on base in any inning, and never had a runner advance as far as third. Even with all that, Jessica Baca's leadoff single in the bottom of the seventh game ISU some life, but they couldn't capitalize as Shelby Ford fouled out, Terah Blackwell grounded out, Jocelyn Horton fouled out to end the game.
ISU got singled from Taylor Marchione in the fourth and sixth, and Baca's in the seventh, and Desirae Hoffman doubled in the third, but nothing more.
Idaho State concludes the Wilson/DeMarini Classic on Sunday morning against Samford before traveling to Tuscon to take on #2 Arizona later in the day.
NOTES: Clesson threw her fourth complete game of the season and lowered her ERA to 3.99 ... after allowing a home run in each of her last four games, the only extra base hit off of her was a double in the first inning ... Taylor Marchione now has the longest current hitting streak on the team with six straight ... Marchione was caught stealing, making ISU just 4-for-8 in stolen bases, while their opponents are 28-of-34.
