Pittsburg, Kan. - The Missouri Southern Softball Lions dropped both non-conference games at Pittsburg State Sunday afternoon at the PSU Softball Complex.
Game One
Game one was scoreless heading into the fifth before Southern struck first. Junior Myranda Stewart led off the inning with a walk and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt from red-shirt sophomore Bailey Skelton. With two outs, senior Sarah Morrison singled back to the pitcher to move Stewart to third before junior Abi Corbett singled back up the middle to score Stewart and make it 1-0. Pittsburg State made a pitching change following a wild pitch that moved Morrison to third and the new Gorilla pitcher walked sophomore Ashley Caldarella to load the bases. After loading the bases, sophomore Angel Badalamenti was struck by a 1-2 pitch to score Morrison and give Southern the 2-0 lead headed into the bottom of the fifth.
The Gorillas led off the home half with a solo home run down the left field line followed by a walk to force a Missouri Southern pitching change. PSU scored four more times after the pitching change to make it 5-2 after five innings of play. Pittsburg State added one more in the sixth inning to make the final score 6-2.
The Lions managed just five hits in the opener with Corbett collecting two of them and her second triple in as many days. Senior Sydney Koch got the start inside the circle for the Lions going four innings, she faced two batters in the fifth, allowing two runs on four hits. Sophomore Taurean Guzman pitched two innings in relief and suffered the loss allowing four runs, two earned, on six hits with a strike out.
Game Two
Southern also struck first in the "night cap" of the non-conference double header with a pair of runs in the first inning that came on a single to center by freshman Emily Harris. Harris' single scored Badalamenti, singled to second base, and freshman Elizabeth Windsor, reached on an error by the shortstop. Pittsburg State cut the early lead in half in the home part of the inning on a RBI double to center.
The score stayed 2-1 until the bottom of the fourth when Pittsburg State scored on a seeing eye single through the left side of the Missouri Southern infield to make it 2-2.
The Lions regained the lead in the top of the fifth that started with a lead off double from Stewart. Stewart was sacrificed over by Harris and scored on a single to right center by freshman Erika Lutgen. A double to center by sophomore Kylie Wesbrooks scored Lutgen and a sacrifice back to the pitcher by Morrison scored Caldarella, who reached on a fielding error by the Gorilla third baseman, to make it 5-2.
Pittsburg State made it 5-3 in the bottom of the fifth with their second lead off home run of the day and scored six runs in the bottom of the sixth for the 9-5 win.
Southern collected 12 hits in the second game with two each coming from Lutgen and Morrison and three from Wesbrooks. Harris tallied two of the five RBIs for the Lions while Stewart and Lutgen each had a double and Wesbrooks had a pair.
Freshman Mikaela Cox got the start for Southern in game two and went five and a third innings allowing all nine runs on 11 hits. Koch pitched two-thirds in relief holding the Gorillas to just one hit.
Up Next
Southern will resume MIAA play this weekend with a road trip to Fort Hays State and Nebraska-Kearney. Friday's games against FHSU are scheduled to start at 3 p.m. and Saturday's contests at UNK have a scheduled start of noon.
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