ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – The Ouachita Baptist Tiger softball team swept the midweek doubleheader against Mississippi College with 3-2 and 5-2 wins.
The Tiger pitching staff was stellar in both games and the offense did just enough to get the job done in two big wins.
GAME 1: Mississippi College 2, Ouachita Baptist 3
The Tigers walked it off in the bottom of the seventh inning on a Sloane Precure double that scored Heather Brown.
Madison Miller started for the Tigers and pitched a complete game, 7 innings, giving up two earned runs on just four hits, striking out seven.
Sloane Precure and Callie Jourdan both recorded two hits and one RBI respectively. Leighton Withers also recorded an RBI and was the first to get the scoring going. In the bottom of the first, she hit an infield single that scored Heather Brown.
Jourdan then singled to score Precure to put the Tigers up 2-0 in the first inning.
The Lady Choctaws tied things up in the top of the fourth at two on a two-run single.
Despite the Lady Choctaws answer, Sloane Precure delivered in the clutch to propel the Tigers to victory.
GAME 2: Mississippi College 2, Ouachita Baptist 5
The Tiger offense established control early and kept control throughout the game. On top of the offense, Nicole Arreola delivered a complete game win.
Arreola started for the Tigers in this one and went 7 complete innings. She gave up two earned runs on six hits, striking out two.
Tally Turnbow, Heather Brown and Sloane Precure led the Tiger offense. They all recorded two hits and an RBI. Tori Herbert and Kyndal Moyer also delivered one RBI each.
The Lady Choctaws got the scoring going in the top half of the second on a homerun. The Tigers then answered back on a Herbert single.
The Tigers added one in the fourth, one in the fifth and two in the sixth.
Arreola closed things out in the seventh to send the Lady Choctaws home with two losses.
The Tigers improved to 5-19 on the season and sit at 1-11 in GAC play.
The Tigers will look to carry its momentum into the weekend series on the road against Southwestern Oklahoma State. First pitch on Friday will be at 1 p.m. First pitch on Saturday will be at noon.
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