WEATHERFORD, Okla. – SWOSU Softball was within two outs of sweeping their first GAC doubleheader of the season, but instead the Bulldogs settled for a split against conference favorite East Central on Friday afternoon at the Athletic Complex. The two teams will resume the series at noon on Saturday with another doubleheader.
SWOSU 6, East Central 2Box Score Taya Haney pitched a complete game, allowing just seven hits and one earned run, but she also made the game-defining play at the plate with a grand slam in the bottom of the fifth inning. SWOSU had already plated two runs on a squeeze bunt from
Miranda McDonald and an RBI single by
Alex Wilson, but Haney stepped to the plate and cleared the bases to give SWOSU a 6-1 lead after five innings.
East Central got one hit in the sixth and pushed across one run on two hits in the seventh, but it was too little as the Bulldogs held on for their first conference win of the season. Wilson and Haney each had two hits in the game and Haney (2-2) got the win to even her record.
East Central 5, SWOSU 2Box Score SWOSU pushed a single run across in the second and sixth innings and they were poised to sweep the doubleheader until miscues were their undoing in the seventh. After recording the first out of the inning,
Kaley Reding walked two straight batters and she was pulled from the game in favor of
Taylor Eaves. Eaves walked the bases loaded, leading to an infield single and sacrifice fly by ECU to tie the game.
Another walk loaded the bases up again and an infield error by SWOSU led to two more runs coming across and a wild pitch two batters later brought in the final run as ECU scored five runs in the seventh with only one hit. SWOSU had six hits in the game, two from
Taya Haney, while
Cheyenne Trotter had the Bulldogs lone RBI in the contest. Eaves (0-4) took the loss after allowing three unearned runs in two-thirds of an inning.
