Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – The Ouachita Tigers softball team dropped both games of a doubleheader on the first day of the 2015 season on Thursday, falling to the Lyon College Scots 5-4 and 13-9.
 
In the first game, the Tigers were held scoreless through the first six innings. The Scots, however, put up five runs including a homerun by Tess Hurley-Brown in the third inning. Down 5-0 with just one inning to play, the Tigers attempted a comeback.
 
Suzie Gresham led off the bottom of the seventh with a walk, and she eventually scored the first run for Ouachita after Macy Nantz doubled to right center. Kate Lacina and Jocelyn Jones then followed Nantz with walks, and with the bases loaded Sarah Johnson blasted a two-out, three-run double into right field to bring the score to 5-4.
 
After a pitching change, Lyon was able to get the third and final out of the ballgame on a pop up to first base to claim victory.
 
Despite the loss, Johnson finished with a game-high three runs batted and was 2-3 from the plate. Nantz, who pitched a complete game for the Tigers, also recorded two hits and one RBI.
 
Both offenses came alive in the second game, as 10 runs were scored through the first three innings. Ouachita struck first in the bottom of the first inning, when Kailey Madden singled through the left side to score Jessica Branam. Johnson immediately followed with a two-run double to left, scoring Madden and Kelly Powell.
 
In the top of the second inning, Lyon College brought the score to 3-1 on an RBI-single, and after a scoreless second inning for Ouachita, the Scots took a 5-3 lead on a four-run third inning.
 
After losing the lead, however, the Tigers responded with two runs in the bottom of the third to tie the game at 5-5. The runs came on RBI-singles by Jones and pitcher Jade Sones.
 
After Sones held the Scots scoreless in the top of the fourth, a sacrifice fly by Madden in the bottom of the inning allowed Powell to give the Tigers a 6-5 lead. The Scots took an 8-6 lead back the next half-inning, though, scoring three runs on two hits.
 
Johnson continued her success from the plate in the bottom of the fifth when she homered to left field and pulled Ouachita within one run, but Lyon's Savannah Fuller homered to left as well in the very next inning.
 
The Tigers pulled within one run again in the sixth inning, when Nantz doubled to center field and Branam reached home, but the Scots answered for a second time with a four-run seventh inning, including two doubles and a single.
 
In the bottom of the seventh with two outs, Lacina attempted to spark a rally with a solo homerun to left center, but a strikeout ended the game with the Scots ahead 13-9.
 
Delaney Bedunah started the game at pitcher for the Tigers, but was replaced by Sones after 2.2 innings. Sones then pitched for 2.2 innings, before Amber Oxford and Johnson followed. Sones was handed the loss for the Tigers.
 
Johnson followed up her 2-3, 3-RBI performance in the first game with three hits, three runs batted in and two runs in the second game. Madden added two RBI in game two, and Nantz recorded one hit and one run batted in for three hits and two RBI on the day.
 
The Tigers (0-2) will host the Ronnie Hawkins Invitational on Saturday and Sunday at Sully Anderson Field. The tournament will begin with the Tigers hosting Lincoln University on Saturday, Feb. 7, at 10 a.m.