WICHITA FALLS, Texas – SWOSU Softball won both of its games by one run on Saturday to begin the Mustang Round-Up, defeating Fort Hays State 3-2 before walking off Cameron 9-8 later in the evening.
The Bulldogs, now 4-2, will play face Midwestern State in a traditional doubleheader tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon to conclude their trip to Texas. The games will start at noon, pushed back an hour from the originally scheduled 11:00 am time.
Game One
SWOSU 3, FHSU 2
SWOSU scored a run in the third inning and another two in the fifth for their run production. They led 3-0 until Hays answered with two runs in the bottom of the fifth.
Katie Boline walked in the third inning and was driven in from a single by
Riley Lusk.
Jadyn Hook and Boline scored in the fifth. Hook started the inning's momentum with a hit and Lusk eventually drove in two more with another single. She finished a perfect 3-3 at the plate.
Jaycee McKee entered in the circle in the fifth and earned a long save with three innings of relief. She stranded a runner on second base in the seventh to keep SWOSU ahead.
Alexis Taylor (W, 3-0) started and pitched four innings to eventually earn the win.
Game Two
SWOSU 9, Cameron 8
The Bulldogs erased an 8-4 sixth-inning deficit with five runs over the final two frames to beat the Aggies in walk-off fashion to end Saturday's action.
Chesnie Hewitt delivered the game-winner – a two RBI triple – that plated
Jadyn Hook and
Taylor McMahon who both singled prior to her.
Trailing 8-4 in the sixth, SWOSU inched closer with three runs in the frame.
Katie Boline tripled in two runs of her own and
Riley Lusk drove in Boline shortly thereafter to make the score a manageable 8-7 heading into the final inning.
The resilient win comes despite surrendering 18 hits to Cameron's lineup, though only two of those went for extra bases. The Aggies led 6-3 after the third inning and extended the lead to 7-3 in the fourth and then 8-4 by the sixth.
Kaylee Barkley (2.0 IP) allowed an unearned run in the sixth in the circle but threw effectively for the final two innings to earn her first win of the season. Lusk and
Jaycee McKee pitched the first five innings collectively.
McMahon finished with a perfect 3-3 game at the plate. She doubled, scored twice, and drove in two. Lusk (1-4) also tripled.
