By CONNOR GRAY, Assistant Editor
The Northwestern Lady Rangers softball team didn’t finish its weekend series with Southern Nazarene how they wanted to.
The Crimson Storm swept the Lady Rangers, as the Lady Rangers struggled offensively through most of the series.
In the first game of the series on Friday, the team got behind early 9-0 and got three runs in the fifth to make it 9-3.
Lindsey McElroy got an RBI single, and Mackenzie Adams got two RBI singles before being thrown out at second.
Southern Nazarene got a run in the bottom of the inning, making it 10-3, but the Lady Rangers responded with more runs.
Abby Detar got on base with throwing, which led to Morgan la Ne scoring.
The bases later got loaded up, and the next run came in after McElroy got hit by the pitch.
The last run came after Hannah Howel hit a single to second base, making it 10-6.
“It was one of those weekends where we got behind early and battled back to get ourselves in the ball game,” head coach Ryan Wondrasek said.
In the end, the Lady Rangers lost 11-6 as the effort to come back fell short.
The next game was the first of a doubleheader and the Lady Rangers were ahead until everything fell apart.
The Lady Rangers got the first run to start the game, as Allison Zanca got an RBI single, making it 1-0.
Southern Nazarene tied it up, and it remained until the sixth inning, as Adams got a two-run home run to make it 3-1.
In the next inning, everything fell apart for the Lady Rangers. The Crimson Storm scored seven runs in the bottom of the inning and went on to win 9-3. The Lady Rangers didn’t stop the Storm.
That momentum for Southern Nazarene continued as the team completed the sweep with an 8-1 victory.
The Rangers’ next opponent will be Oklahoma Baptist in a home series with the first game on Friday, and a doubleheader Saturday.