PITTSBURG, Kan. – The Rogers State Softball team picked up a split with Pittsburg State Thursday afternoon on the road in non-conference play.
The Hillcats defeated the Gorillas 8-2 in game one, but fell to Pitt State 9-6 in game two.
In game one, the Hillcats jumped out into an early lead and never looked back. Tailee Reding and Mikayla Waggnor scored on a ball in play by Danelle Day and then Day would score later in the inning on a passed ball as Rogers State went up 3-0.
The hosts would get two runs back in the second inning on a double, but that would be all that Andrea Morales would allow as she picked up her fourth win of the season, pitching all seven inning while recording 12 strikeouts along the way.
The rest of the Hillcats runs would come via the homerun as Rogers State hit three in the fifth and sixth innings. With Waggnor on, Day hit a homerun to center field to but the Hillcats up 5-2 in the fifth.
Then in the sixth, Reding hit a homerun to left field with Abigail Taylor on base to put RSU up 7-2. Waggnor then made it back-to-back homeruns as she sent another ball over the left field fence.
In game two, Day started off the scoring with another homerun, as she hit a two-run shot to center field.
However, Pitt State would load the bases and walked two runs home to tie the game in the bottom of the first. They would then add two more runs with an RBI single and an RBI groundout in the first.
After the hosts added another run in the third, the Hillcats responded as Taylor Santistevan hit an RBI single up the middle to score Sierra Skaggs and make it a 5-3 game.
Unfortunately for the Hillcats, Pitt State would too have some homerun power, hitting three solo homeuns in the later innings to hold off any charge from Rogers State.
Santistevan would add a three-run homerun in the sixth, scoring Rylee DeLozier and Paige Westover, but the Hillcats wouldn't come any closer.
Rogers State will now travel to Conway, Arkansas this weekend, taking on four teams in a re-worked weekend after the Alvy Early Classic was cancelled in Bentonville, Arkansas. The Hillcats will face Central Missouri and Nebraska-Kearney in a doubleheader on Saturday.
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