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Box Score 2 GOODWELL, Okla. – A season-high 10 run inning was not enough as the Newman softball team dropped game one of Friday's (April 12) doubleheader, 14-10, to Oklahoma Panhandle State at the Aggie Softball Field. OPSU won the nightcap, 2-0. The three-game series concludes tomorrow (April 13) with one game at 1 p.m.
OPSU 14, NU 10
The Lady Jets put up 10 runs in the fourth inning to take a 10-5 advantage in the early game. With the bases loaded and one run already scored,
Briana Hallacy plated two runs with a single.
Kaitlyn Buck hit in the fourth Jet run of the inning on a bases-loaded single, and
Erin Monday kept the offense rolling with a two-RBI single.
Kelsey Jones then singled home one run, and back-to-back Aggie errors allowed two more Lady Jet runs to score. NU added their 10th run of the inning on a bases-loaded walk for the 10-5 lead.
In a 10-5 deficit, the Aggies scored three runs each in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings to go up 14-10. Two of the three runs in the fourth inning came on a miscue by the Lady Jets as an error allowed the runs to score. OPSU added one more run on a RBI single. The fifth inning saw the Aggies score runs on two RBI singles, and one NU error brought home the third run. OPSU was up 11-10 after five innings. In the sixth inning, the Aggies added their final three runs on four singles.
Jones and Buck both finished with two hits and one RBI, and Audrey Zogelmann went 2-for-4 from the plate.
OPSU 2, NU 0
After the high scoring first game, game two featured only two runs as Oklahoma Panhandle State won 2-0.
OPSU scored both of its runs in the fifth inning. With a runner on second, a double gave the Aggies a 1-0 lead. An Aggie single with the bases loaded plated the second run for the 2-0 score.
The Lady Jets outhit the Aggies in the nightcap, 9-7; however, NU couldn't get on the scoreboard. Three Lady Jets totaled two hits. Jones and
Makenzie Flaska went 2-for-3, while Zogelmann was 2-for-4.
NU and OPSU finishes the three-game series tomorrow at 1 p.m.
