ADA, Okla. – SWOSU Softball opened their series versus East Central on Friday with a doubleheader. They took two narrow losses with both games ending in a score of 4-2.
SWOSU drops to 4-17 and 1-7 in the GAC. They look to avoid the series sweep against East Central tomorrow at 12:00 pm.
GAME ONE – ECU 4, SWOSU 2
Brianna Cryer had an almost perfect start in the circle. She went 3.2 innings without giving up a hit, only walking three batters. On the offensive side, the Bulldogs couldn't get much going. They had base runners in all three innings, but left all five on base.
The fourth inning is where the scoring started. Multiple singles got people on base to start for SWOSU. A
Maddie Rahon hit eventually scored one, but again the Dawgs left three stranded. East Central responded in the bottom of the inning.
Two outs from their first two batters didn't faze the Tigers. Their next five batters reached base, just managing to get on. Three singles and two walks saw three players cross home plate for what would be the winning runs.
SWOSU scored in the fifth thanks to a couple errors, but ECU tacked on one more insurance run in the inning as well. The Bulldogs had numerous chances to score more runs, 11 left on base to be exact. They could not string together enough hits in a row to do this.
Maddie Rahon led the way, going 3-4 with an RBI.
Brianna Cryer received the loss, giving up one hit and walking two with two strikeouts in 3.2 innings.
GAME TWO – SWOSU 4, ECU 2
Game two was similar. Neither team had much working for them in the early goings. The third inning saw SWOSU have runners on second and third base thanks to a double into right center, but popped up with two outs to leave them on base.
The Tigers scored one in the bottom of the third thanks to their own double. This was the only scoring of the game until the final frame.
Caitlin Delaney finally ignited the offense after a slow day with a leadoff home run in the top of the seventh. A
Cierah Jones double scored another to take the lead with just three outs left for ECU to work with.
Momentum was on the SWOSU's side after the huge top of the inning. All that was left was to get three outs. Things went awry almost instantly though as after a ground out to start, two singles put two chances to win on base for ECU. A pinch hitter then came in and sent a walk off home run over the outfield fence to end the game.
Taryn Westbrook takes another loss, as she did not leave the game. She ended with 6.1 innings pitched, allowing six hits and striking out three in her effort.
Caitlin Delaney hit her first home run of the year as her only hit of the game.
