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THE RUNDOWN
SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Texas Woman's and Fort Hays State handed the St. Edward's (0-5) softball season a pair of losses Saturday to close out the St. Mary's D2 Classic at St. Mary's Softball Stadium.
Texas Woman's and SEU were locked in a 1-1 tie until the seventh when the Pioneers led off the top of the seventh with three-straight singles from Morgan McCallum, Cheyenne Mahy and Hazel Puempel. All three players came around to score, and the Hilltoppers were set down in order in the bottom of the seventh.
KEELY FRAZIER put together perhaps the best start of the season for the Hilltoppers in the circle; she scattered five hits, allowed just one run and struck out five in the first six innings before TWU erupted in the seventh.
Fort Hays State jumped out to a 4-0 lead with two runs each in the top of the first and third innings before SEU battled back in the bottom of the third scoring a run on a throwing error and
KATHRYN CONNELLY drove home
ASHLEY NASSY with an RBI single to cut the lead to two. However, FHSU answered back in the top of the fourth with an RBI triple from Candace Bollig for the Tigers' fifth run.
VALERIE BRANT would drive home
SHELBY JANDA on a sacrifice fly for SEU in the bottom of the sixth, but that would be the extent of the rally.
HIGHLIGHTS VS. TEXAS WOMAN'S
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SAMI WILLIAMS went 2-for-2 at the plate with a run scored, and the senior now has 15 career games with two hits or more.
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KLARISSA GARCIA picked up her first RBI in a Hilltoppers uniform with an RBI single in the sixth that scored Williams.
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KEELY FRAZIER limited TWU to just one run through the first six innings before the Pioneers came out in the seventh and began the frame with three-straight singles.
HIGHLIGHTS VS. FORT HAYS STATE
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SARA MACHADO went 4-for-4 at the plate, which was a career-high; in fact, the four hits gave Machado five on the young season, which is already two more hits than her entire freshman campaign in 2017 (3).
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SHELBY JANDA collected the fourth multiple-hit game of her career with a 2-for-3 performance at the plate, and she also scored a run.
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KATHRYN CONNELLY picked up her first RBI in an SEU uniform and went 2-for-3 at the plate for her first collegiate multi-hit game.
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VALERIE BRANT hit a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the sixth that drove in Janda for SEU's final run of the contest.
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OLIVIA BURDICK pitched well in relief, allowing just one run on five hits in 4.2 innings out of the bullpen.
STAT OF THE GAME I
10 – The Hilltoppers had 10 hits in the loss to Fort Hays State, the most by SEU in a game so far in 2018.
WHAT'S NEXT
The Hilltoppers will look for their first wins at home Wednesday vs. Tarleton State with a doubleheader at Diane Daniels Field beginning at Noon.
