THE RUNDOWN

Ouachita Baptist softball prevailed in a game that featured two ties and four lead changes, taking the first game of its series with Arkansas-Monticello 8-7. Nicole Arreola earned the win in the circle and scored the winning run after reaching base in her first career plate appearance.

The Tigers struck first with four runs in the first. Jillian Jones drew a bases-loaded walk to start the scoring. Callie Jourdan followed with an infield single to plate another run. Kendyl Dockter drove in two with a single to center field to drive in two more. 

Hope Waid led off the second with a triple and scored on Heather Brown's safety squeeze bunt. 

The Cotton Blossoms scored runs in the third and fourth innings and took the lead with a four-run fifth. 

Lexie Foreman's pinch-hit RBI single through the right side plated Sloane Precure with the tying run. A sixth-inning home run put the Blossoms back on top, but the Tigers were not done. 

With two on and two out, Brown stepped to the plate and delivered a single. Arreola, at second after her first career stolen base, scored on the hit. An error by the UAM center fielder allowed Waid to score the go-ahead tally.

Arreola coaxed three straight groundouts to close out the win in the seventh.

THREE THINGS TO KNOW

- Arreola improved her record to 4-4
- Ouachita's eight runs were more than it has scored in its last five games combined
- The Tigers snapped a four-game losing streak.

BY THE NUMBERS

1 - Saturday's game was the third straight one-run game the Tigers have played
.667 - The Tigers' No2. 1-3 hitters combined to go 6-9.
2 - Waid's triple was her second of the year.