DURANT, Okla. – SWOSU Softball opened up the 2017 season at the Southeastern Oklahoma State Regional Invitational on Friday morning in Durant. The Bulldogs went 0-2 on the day against a pair of in-region foes in Pittsburg State and Missouri Southern.
SWOSU (0-2) will be back in action twice on Saturday in Durant, facing Eastern New Mexico at 9:30 am and Emporia State at 5:00 pm.
Pittsburg State 10, SWOSU 1 (6 inn.)
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The Bulldogs got on the board first, with Morgan Swisher leading off the game with a bunt single and coming around to score on an RBI double from cleanup hitter Taya Haney. Those would be the only two hits that SWOSU got off of Emmie Robertson, who held the Bulldogs without a base runner over the final five innings.
Haney got the start in the circle and worked out of a bases-loaded jam in the second inning, but she was not as lucky in the third as Pitt State's Kylie Guthier connected on a three-run homer to put the Gorillas on top 3-1. That's where the score would stay until the bottom of the sixth, when PSU got seven runs on five hits and ended the game via run-rule with another homer from Guthier.
Haney (0-1) took the loss after allowing nine runs – eight earned – on eight hits with three walks and one strikeout. Rileigh Ricken faced the final batter of the game, allowing one run on one hit. Haney and Swisher had the Bulldogs two hits, with Haney collecting the lone RBI of the contest.
Missouri Southern 7, SWOSU 4
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SWOSU found themselves in an early hole in the second game on Friday, but they nearly came back to tie Missouri Southern before the Lions scored two insurance runs in the sixth inning to secure the victory. After the Bulldogs went down in order in the first, MSSU scored four runs on three hits with one error, but Taylor Eaves did get a strikeout with the bases loaded to end the inning with SWOSU down 4-0.
The Bulldogs started fighting back in the second, when Samantha Householder scored on a wild pitch and Abigail Schade added an RBI single to score Kaytlin Donaldson and cut the lead in half at 4-2. Missouri Southern had a leadoff home run in the third to push the lead to 5-2, but SWOSU scored once in both the fourth and fifth innings to get back within one. Householder scored on an error in the fourth then came back with an RBI double in the fifth to score Tori Hawk and make it 5-4 in favor of MSSU after five.
SWOSU had runners on second and third with one out in the sixth, threatening to tie or take the lead, but a pop out and fly out ended the threat with two runners in scoring position. Missouri Southern capitalized in the bottom of the inning with two insurance runs on three hits and the Dawgs went down in order in the seventh to end the threat.
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