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GAME 1 BOX SCORE
GAME 2 BOX SCORE
SHAWNEE, Okla. – Fort Hays State Softball recorded its third-straight split on Friday in a pair of games in Oklahoma, part of an abbreviated Raising Cane's Softball Festival for the Tigers. The Tigers matched up against a pair of NCAA Tournament teams from a year ago. FHSU fell to Oklahoma Baptist 2-0 in its first contest of the day, but bounced back for a 6-2 win over Southern Arkansas. FHSU is now 3-3 overall for the season.
Oklahoma Baptist 2, Fort Hays State 0
The Tigers and Bison were locked in a pitching duel throughout the first contest of the day. Savanah Egger was in the circle for FHSU, while Jaycee Shaffer threw for OBU. Shaffer came out on the winning end after a 2-run home run that snuck just inside the left field foul pole produced the only two runs of the game in the bottom of the sixth.
Both Shaffer and Egger threw complete games. Shaffer recorded a career-high 12 strikeouts and allowed just three hits to the Tigers, while walking just one. She moved to 3-0 on the season. Egger finished with five hits, two walks allowed, and six strikeouts in her 6.0 innings of work.
Lefty Greenlee Wells hit the 2-run homer for OBU, pushing a ball down the left field line in the sixth that barely stayed fair. Lilliana Ramirez-Johnson had two of the three hits for FHSU, while Madison Pierce had the other.
Fort Hays State 6, Southern Arkansas 2
The Tigers bounced back in second game to knock off a Mulerider team that entered at 8-3 overall on the season, including a win over a top-10 ranked team so far this season. Morgan Schmidt had another great performance in the pitching circle, throwing her third complete game of the season and staying right on her earned run average of 2.00.
Schmidt carved up SAU batters with a season-high nine strikeouts, while working around four hits and four walks. Her only blemish on the scoreboard was a two-run homer allowed to Regan Dillon in the fifth, which at the time tightened FHSU's lead to 3-2. However, she buckled down the final two innings and saw her squad give her three insurance runs in the sixth. Schmidt moved to 2-1 on the season.
The Tigers started their scoring in the first when a Jules Bosco walk eventually led to a Madison Pierce RBI single. FHSU tacked on two more runs in the second when Regan Curry and Lexi Mohr had back-to-back doubles to produce the first run and Kaydawn Haag added an RBI single.
Mohr and Haag would be involved in more run scoring for the Tigers in the sixth. Marisela Landa opened the inning by getting hit by a pitch and Curry followed with a single. Mohr delivered her second RBI double of the game, Curry scored on a wild pitch, and Haag added a sac fly RBI to polish off the Tiger rally.
UP NEXT
Ahead on the schedule for the Tigers is the Washburn Invitational in Topeka next weekend. The Tigers are scheduled to play games at both the Lake Shawnee complex and Gahnstrom Field (home of Washburn softball). The Tigers have a mix of six games on the slate against teams from the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) and Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC).