THE RUNDOWN

Ouachita Baptist softball mounted a three-run rally in the seventh inning Tuesday in the first game of a doubleheader at Henderson State, but the tying run was left stranded on third in a 5-4 loss. The Tigers scored three times on four hits and took advantage of an error before the comeback attempt fell just short. 

The Tigers took a short-lived lead in the top of the first inning as Jillian Jones singled home Heather Brown. The Reddies answered with a run of their own in the bottom of the frame. Three runs in the third and another in the fourth gave Henderson a 5-1 lead.

The Tigers' seventh-inning comeback attempt started with Callie Jourdan scoring an unearned run as Hope Waid was put out in a rundown. The next batter, Brown, singled to left to plate Kyndal Moyer. After Sloane Precure followed with a double, Jones once again drove in Brown with a single to cut the lead to one. However, the game would end with the tying run 60 feet away. 
 

THREE THINGS TO KNOW

- Game 1 was the third straight softball Battle of the Ravine decided by one run
- Madison Miller struck out two batters and walked two while allowing five runs (four earned) in 5.2 innings of work
- Eight of Ouachita's 10 hits came from the Nos. 1-4 spots in the lineup

BY THE NUMBERS

3 - Waid and Jones led Ouachita with three hits apiece
9 - Waid extended her reached base streak to nine games