BETHANY, Okla. – SWOSU Softball dropped the opening game of Monday's doubleheader with Southern Nazarene 8-3, before falling in a hard-fought extra-inning battle in the series finale 7-6.
 
The Bulldogs return home this upcoming weekend to host Ouachita at the SWOSU Athletic Complex. Assuming weather cooperates, games will be played on Friday and Saturday.
 
Game One – SNU 8, SWOSU 3
 
Both sides played a scoreless first four innings, before a five-run fifth inning by SNU broke the game open.
 
Bailey Bradley answered with a two-RBI double in the sixth, but the Crimson Storm got those runs back in the sixth with a pair of RBI hits.
 
Jordyn Wadley capped off SWOSU's scoring with an RBI in the seventh, but the margin was too great to overcome.
 
Alisa Friesen pitched the first 4.1 innings until she got into trouble in the fifth. She was relieved by Kaylee Barkley who threw the rest of the way.
 
Maddie Rahon and Breanna Simmons both had two hits apiece.
 
Game Two – SNU 7, SWOSU 6 (9 inn.)
 
Trailing 6-3 and down to their final three outs, SWOSU rallied to force extra innings by scoring three runs in the top of the seventh.
 
Hannah Franklin and Caitlin Delany both plated runs in the inning on back-to-back doubles.
 
After a scoreless eighth inning by both sides, SWOSU could not find a way to score Dani Carmo in the ninth despite getting on with a leadoff double.
 
They paid for it in the home half, when SNU walked it off with a one-out double.
 
Carmo and Delany both finished the game with two hits each – Delany doubling twice, Carmo once.
 
Brianna Cryer pitched the entire game and picked up the tough decision loss. She absorbed 15 hits, but competed all afternoon to keep the Dawgs in the game until the very end.