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Kent State Football Steals the Show Cheering on Softball in Full Gear

Full pads. Full energy.
Maren Angus-Coombs|
The Kent State football team showed up in full pads to cheer on the softball team.
The Kent State football team showed up in full pads to cheer on the softball team. | @coachwestside/ X

The Kent State softball team had all the energy at Devine Stadium on Friday afternoon when the Golden Flashes football team rolled in after practice wearing full pads.

Gathered around the field, singng and dancing, the football team helped power the softball squad to a doubleheader sweep of Bowling Green.

The Golden Flashes won the first game 7-6 and the second, 1-0.

Kent State has gone viral since the moment was captured and posted on X by Josh Padilla, the school's Assistant Athletic Director, Communications.

The video has been shared on X by more than 250 accounts including Bussin' With The Boys, a FanDuel sponsored podcast hosted by former football players Taylor Lewan and Will Compton.

"The Kent State football team went straight from practice to watch the Kent State softball team in full pads," the official podcast account posted. "That’s gotta be crazy stadium pulse."

Barstool Sports' college football podcast, Unneccesary Roughness, shared the video as well.

"Kent State’s Football team rolled up to the Softball game right after practice. Incredible."

The energy sparked a furocious comback for the Golden Flashes in the first game.

Trailing 5-0 in the fourth inning, Kent State cut the deficit to 5-3. Ashlyn Porter, Gabby Quinn, and Ciara Comacho loaded the bases on three singles. Porter scored on a wild pitch, Alex Trevena drove in Quinn on a ground out and then Brooke Aberle scored Comacho with a sacrifice fly.

Bowling Green got one back in the fifth to make it 6-3.

The home half of the sixth was magical. Quinn led off with a solo home run to left center, Comacho drew a walk moved to third on sacrifice bunts from Trevena and Aberle. A walk to Aaralyn Nogay with the bases loaded, pull Kent State within one.

Caleigh Shaulis sent the stadium into a frenzy when she delivered the go-ahead single to left center and scored two to give Kent State a 7-6 lead.

Meadow Ferri relieved Alena Hillyard in the top of the seventh and slammed the door on BGSU, stranding two base runners and earning her first save of the season.

Ferri kept the momentum going into the second game of the afternoon, tossing complete-game shutout on six hits and four walks while striking out one.

Kent State broke through in the bottom of the sixth when Aberle singled and Brynn Libler followed with a double to put runners on second and third. Shaulis delivered once again, with a sacrifice fly to give the Golden Flashes a 1-0 lead.

The series between the two teams wraps on Saturday, April 4 at 1:00 p.m.

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Maren Angus-Coombs
MAREN ANGUS-COOMBS

Maren Angus-Coombs was born in Los Angeles and raised in Nashville, Tenn. She is a graduate of Middle Tennessee State University and has been a sports writer since 2008. She has been covering college softball since 2016 for various outlets including Softball America, ESPNW and Hurrdat Sports. She is currently the managing editor of Softball On SI and also serves as an analyst for Nebraska softball games on Nebraska Public Media and B1G+.

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