West Lafayette unfortunately couldn't capitalize on their home-field advantage in their season opener. They fell just short of the Covington Trojans by a score of  5-4 on Tuesday.
  Allison Creech and  Kerrigan Gooden stepped up to the plate in a big way.  Creech  scored two  runs while going 2-for-3, while  Gooden  got on base  in all four of her plate appearances with two  RBI.
 West Lafayette has already played their next contest,  a  10-0  victory against Crawfordsville on the 3rd. As for Covington, they also wasted no time getting back out on the field and have already played their next  game,  a  9-4  defeat against Bismarck-Henning/Rossville-Alvin on the 8th.
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