RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – The Arkansas Tech softball team capped a six-game homestand on Monday with a split in their doubleheader against Delta State. Tech would lose the first game 3-1 and then bounce back to win the nightcap 5-2.
GAME ONE
The opening game featured just one run scored for either team through the first six innings of play as Tech plated that lone run on a RBI single up the middle by
Sadie Turner in the bottom of the third.
The Golden Suns would take a shutout bid into the top of the seventh inning and were two outs away from securing it, but three-straight walks were issued to breathe life into the Lady Statesmen potential rally. Eventually, all three of those base runners came home to score as Delta State put up three runs in the top of the seventh, forcing a bottom half.
In that bottom half, the Golden Suns looked to put together a one-out rally of their own and possibly record their third-straight walk-off win after singles from
Neveah Wilson and
Anna Winkfield, but the Lady Statesmen were able to get the next two outs to complete their comeback victory.
GAME TWO
In the second game, Tech was first to score again, this time with two runs in the bottom of the second. That inning had RBIs from
Lexi Gorniak and
Neveah Wilson as Gorniak had a sac fly and Wilson an infield single.
Delta State would answer back in their half of the third inning and tied the game at two-all.
That tie score did not last long, however as Tech re-took the lead on a lead home run by Turner. The score would remain 3-2 in favor of Tech until the bottom of the sixth when the Golden Suns were able to add a pair of insurance runs.
Both of those runs score on a Lady Statesmen error that came with two outs in the inning. Scoring on that play were Gorniak and Wilson.
Tech starting pitcher
Aly White made those insurance runs stand up as she worked around a one-out single to complete what she started. White would scatter six hits, allow two runs, walk none and strikeout four.
UP NEXT
The Golden Suns will travel to Shawnee, Oklahoma to take on Oklahoma Baptist in their penultimate conference series of the season. The series is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. on Thursday, April 17.
