WICHITA FALLS, Texas – SWOSU Softball extended their winning streak to three games with a pair of one-run victories on Saturday at the Midwestern State Round Robin on Saturday in Wichita Falls.
With the wins, SWOSU now moves above .500 at 5-4 heading into a pair of games on Sunday. The Bulldogs will meet Missouri S&T at 9:30 am on Sunday before closing out the tournament against Newman at 2:30 pm.
SWOSU 6, Colorado Mines 5 (8 inn.)
Box Score
SWOSU saw their four-run lead dissipate in the seventh inning, but the Bulldogs rebounded and scored two runs in the top of the eighth inning to earn an extra-inning victory in Saturday's first game. The Bulldogs scored twice in the second inning, getting an RBI groundout from
Kenedi Jackson that added a second run thanks to an error by Colorado Mines. In the third, that lead grew to 4-0 on a pair of RBI singles from Jackson and Haney.
Colorado Mines got on the board with an RBI single in the fourth and they would not score again until putting up three runs on five hits to tie the game at 4-4 in the bottom of the seventh. The Orediggers had the chance to walk off, but
Miranda Grover got a strikeout to end the threat with two runners on base.
With the international tiebreaker in effect, SWOSU played Jackson on second base and she came in to score on an RBI fielder's choice hit off the bat of
Samantha Householder. Householder would then come across to score on a wild pitch to give the Dawgs a two-run advantage. In the bottom of the eighth, Colorado Mines scored their runner from second but
Rileigh Ricken mowed down a base runner trying to steal second before a groundout ended the game.
SWOSU finished with 10 hits, getting three apiece from
Paige Bowler and
Miranda McDonald along with two from
Taya Haney. Haney was also the starting pitcher for SWOSU and she threw 6.0 innings in the circle before giving way to
Miranda Grover, who earned the win and improved to 2-0 after allowing one run on two hits in 2.0 innings of action.
SWOSU 7, Southwest Baptist 6
Box Score
A two-out solo home run by
Rileigh Ricken in the top of the seventh inning proved to be the difference as SWOSU took down Southwest Baptist in a back-and-forth contest on Saturday evening. SBU scored first, but the Bulldogs built leads of three and two runs, only to have the Bearcats come back to tie the game on two difference occasions.
SWOSU scored four runs in the third to go on top 4-1, but SBU got two runs in the third and one in the fourth to again even the score at 4-4. A two-run triple from
Abigail Schade in the fifth put the Dawgs back up 6-4, but again the Bearcats had the answer as they pushed two runs across in the bottom of the sixth to knot the score at 6-6.
After two quick outs in the top of the seventh, Ricken slammed an 0-2 fence over the wall in left field, putting SWOSU up for good as
Miranda Grover sat the Bearcats down in order in the bottom of the seventh to complete the victory.
Schade finished 3-for-4 with two RBI while
Kaytlin Donaldson was 2-for-3 with two runs scored and two RBI. Grover picked up the decision for the third straight contests, moving to 3-0 on the year by pitching the final 3.2 innings and allowing two runs on two hits.
