By OAKLEE FIELDER
Sports Editor
The NWOSU Softball team had a triple header to play. The three games were against the Oklahoma Baptist University Lady Bison and had one game on Sunday and two on Monday.
To start the triple header, the Lady Rangers were 9-25 overall and 5-15 in the GAC. OBU was 21-15 overall and 15-5.
This was going to be a tough three games for the Lady Rangers, especially if they were trying to get a win.
OBU 14-NWOSU 5
The first game started with a run scored for the Lady Bison to take the immediate lead.
Rachel Sherwood hit a sacrifice fly out and Jadyn Muns was able to get home to tie the game at one.
In the second, OBU scored four runs to take a large lead and set their tone for the game, and the three games as the Lady Rangers did not respond.
The third inning was scoreless.
In the fourth, OBU scored two runs to get their lead to six. Kennedi Caine hit a sacrifice fly to short stop.
Kirby Van Haren was thrown out but Rosemary Rivera ran home to get the Lady Rangers their second run of the game.
In the fifth, the Lady Bison scored a single run to make it 8-2. They continued their momentum in the sixth and scored five runs to make it 14-2.
The Lady Rangers were able to respond with a single by Macy Spearman to sent Muns and Makanalei Lapera home and make it a ten-run game.
Sherwood then hit a double down the left field line and sent Spearman home. Unfortunately, that was all the Lady Rangers had left in them and the game ended 14-5.
OBU 4-NWOSU 3
The second game was the next day on Monday.
It started with another quick score by the Lady Bison, and there was once again a response by NWOSU. Sherwood hit a sacrifice fly to center field and she was able to send Muns home to tie it at one.
Avery Clark then hit a single to shortstop and that sent Spearman home. The Lady Rangers now lead the game by one in the first inning.
The second was scoreless. In the third, the Lady Bison scored a run to tie the game at two.
The fourth was scoreless. In the fifth, OBU scored another run to take the lead. The sixth was also scoreless.
In the seventh, the Lady Bison hit a homerun and they led the game by two in the final inning. Sherwood a single to shortstop but that allowed them to throw Spearman out. Caine was able to get home and put the score at just one. Unfortunately, Van Haren hit a ground out and ended the game 4-3 for an OBU win.
OBU 5-NWOSU 4
The third and final game was later on Monday.
It started with another opening frame scoring run by the Lady Bison, who put it 2-0 in the first.
OBU then hit a homerun in the third to make it 3-0.
It was responded with a homerun for the Lady Rangers by Madeline Pack to score the Lady Rangers first run of the game.
In the fourth, Corn hit a single down the left field line to send Rivera home and make it a one run game.
In the fifth, Spearman hit a triple down the left field line and the game was tied 3-3 with a run from Muns.
In the sixth, OBU scored two runs to take the lead with one run as cushion in the closing stages of the game. It was responded as Delaynie Esterly hit a single down the right field line and sent Devynn Raile home.
That was all the Lady Rangers had in store for the Lady Bison, and they were winless over the triple header.The Lady Rangers now sit 9-28 overall and 5-18 in the GAC.
They also sit in the twelfth position in the standings, which is last. They are running on a losing streak of nine games, their last win against Newman University. They will play at Henderson State next.