(From Missouri Southern Athletics)The Missouri Southern softball program claimed the third sweep in MIAA play beating No. 2 Rogers State 6-3 and 4-0 on Sunday Mar. 26th at the Pat Lipira Softball Complex.
The Lions (22-7, 7-1 MIAA) were led by Emily Perry going 2-for-4 with two RBIs and scoring once, Josie Tofpi had two RBIs and scored once as well. Avery Tallman earned her 12th win of the season with five innings of work and Bailey Lacy pitching the last two innings with no hits allowed and three strikeouts.
Rogers State (23-6, 2-4 MIAA) got on the board first with two runs in the first inning to take an early 2-0 lead. Southern responded in the second inning with six runs with an Adrianna Young single through the right side scoring Kara Amos, Perry hitting a double to center field scoring Katie Gray and Young, Tofpi singling home Perry and Yazmin Vargas and an Ashlynn Williams single up the middle scored Tofpi.
The Hillcats got one more run in the fifth but were kept off the scoreboard the rest of the way with the Lions picking up the 6-3 win in game one.
In game two Lacy got the start and threw a complete game shutout with four strikeouts for her sixth win of the season, Williams had two RBIs to lead the team with Perry going 2-for-3 with two runs scored.
Southern got on the board first with a Williams RBI in the first inning giving the Lions an early 1-0 lead. The scoring would resume in the third inning with a delayed double steal by Perry and Withers would score Perry as back-to-back RBI hits by Williams and Amos gave the Lions a 4-0 lead.
Lacy would get out of a jam in the sixth inning with runners on first and third with a fly out to short stop to end the inning and ended the game with a groundout to herself in the seventh to complete her first shutout and complete game of the season.
For the weekend the Lions scored 31 runs (7.8 per game) from 41 hits (10.3 per game) for a .402 batting average.
This was the first sweep of a ranked opponent for coach Hallie Blackney as the Lions head coach and the first time in her tenure beating two ranked opponents in a season with the Lions beating then ranked #16 Southern Arkansas 6-2 on Feb. 19th at Yukon High School in the last game of the MIAA/GAC Crossover. Blackney has now coach three wins over a ranked Rogers State team with a 5-3 victory in game one of the Apr. 10th, 2021 double header against a then ranked #22 Hillcats team in Joplin. Southern beat a then ranked #17 Augustana in St. Joseph at the Hy-Vee Classic 3-1 in game one of a double header on Mar. 23rd, 2019 in Blackney's first season leading the program to round out her wins against ranked oppositions for the Lions.
Up next for the Lions will be a conference road weekend first at Nebraska - Kearney followed by Fort Hays State. Southern will play the Lopers in Kearney, Neb on Friday Mar. 31st at Patriot Park in a double header beginning at 2:00pm. To end the weekend teh Lions will play the Tigers in Hays, Kan. on Saturday Apr. 1st at Fleharty Family Field in a double header beginning at 12:00pm.
Career Update
Bailey Lacy - Moved past Ashley Lutz (2015-16) for third in career strikeouts with 254 following the games against Rogers State.
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