By Connor Gray, Senior Reporter
The Northwestern softball team had a weekend series with Arkansas-Monticello but only won one of the three games.
The Lady Rangers’ softball record is now 11-33 and 8-19 in conference play after the series with Arkansas-Monticello.
The first game Friday was a low-scoring affair. The first three innings were scoreless.
Hannah Howell was on the mound for Northwestern and kept Arkansas-Monticello scoreless for the majority of the game.
The Lady Rangers struck first in the fourth inning with a solo home run from Abby DeTar into left center field.
Arkansas-Monticello eventually struck back and got two runs to take the lead in the top of the sixth inning. But the Lady Rangers got a run of their own in the bottom of the inning from a single by Mackenzie Adams.
Arkansas-Monticello got another run in the seventh, and that was the final run of the game. The Blossoms get the win, 3-2.
The second game was tough for Northwestern. The Lady Rangers lost 11-1, as the Blossoms were able to hit the ball wherever they wanted.
In game three on Saturday, the Lady Rangers needed to take one game to avoid a sweep.
Howell took the mound again for game three. She keep Monticello at bay and contributed at the plate.
Howell got the Lady Rangers the first run of the game off an RBI double into center.
In the third, Howell got another RBI for the team on a single to make it 2-0.
Macey Spearman expanded the lead after getting an RBI single in the following inning.
In the sixth inning, Monticello managed to get two runs to come within one, but the Lady Ranger squashed that by getting three runs of their own to make it 6-2 and go onto win the game. Those three runs came from a two-RBI single from Spearman and an RBI from Howell.