By KAROLINA JURESIUTE
Student Reporter
Lady Rangers softball started their conference games on Friday and Saturday against Henderson State Reddies and won the series 2-1.
The Lady Rangers had their first game on Friday and lost by one run 5-4. The first three innings went pretty fast with nobody scoring any runs. Henderson had their first three runs in the fourth inning.
Northwestern Lady Rangers struck back with four runs at the sixth inning of the game after Tatum Winters hit a triple. In the final inning of the game, Lady Rangers could not stop the Reddies and they scored two runs to get back in the lead by one point.
The best performer for the lady Rangers was Tatum Winters with two hits while driving three RBI’s.
Lady Rangers faced the Henderson State Reddies again the next afternoon to play a double header.
Northwestern won both games, which gave the Rangers series win, 2-1.
Northwestern had more runs in Saturday’s first game than the game on Friday. Lady Rangers won by four runs, 10-6. Kathryn Jones was the winning pitcher of the game.
Henderson State started early with the first run in the first inning and then Northwestern had a big third inning.
After the Rangers filled all three bases, Tatum Winters forced a run with a walk. The walk then lead to back-to-back hits, first by Hannah Howell with an RBI single before Rachel Sherwood cleared the bases with a 3-RBI triple.
The Lady Rangers had six hits and took the lead 6-1 to start the fourth inning. Henderson State answered the Rangers with five runs to tie the game. Northwestern answered with two more runs.
The Henderson State Reddies remained scoreless for the rest of the game and Northwestern Lady Rangers scored two more runs to ensure their first win of the double header, 10-6.
The second game of the day was a lot closer, but Lady Rangers won by one run 4-3.
This time Northwestern scored first in the first inning. Macy Spearman scored when Hannah Howell reached first base off an error. The second inning was scoreless for both teams.
In the third inning, Northwestern Rangers had two more runs and were in the lead by three 3-0. After Howell grounded out to short stop, Spearman advanced to the third base and Cameron Alexander scored. Then Sherwood had a triple RBI and. Spearman scored.
Henderson scored their first two runs of the game in the fourth inning to cut the Rangers lead to 3-2. Lady Rangers scored their last run of the game in the fifth inning when Howell hit a homerun.
The Reddies only had one run in the seventh inning, and NWOSU won4-3. Winning pitcher of the game was Molly Dolan. The Lady Rangers advance to an 8-5 record.
The next conference series for the Lady Rangers is this Friday and Saturday against Oklahoma Baptist Bisons in Shawnee.
Results:
Friday game:
NWOSU HSU
Game 1 4 5
RUNS: Rosemary Rivera, 1; Gabrielle Sanchez, 1; Cameron Alexander, 1; Shyanna Stopp, 1
Saturday games:
NWOSU HSU
Game 2 10 6
Game 3 4 3
RUNS: Macy Spearman, 3; Tatum Winters, 2; Hannah Howell, 1; Rachel Sherwood, 1; Avery Clark, 1; Devynn Raile, 1; Beth Denney, 1
RUNS: Macy Spearman, 2; Hannah Howell, 1; Cameron Alexander, 1
