THE RUNDOWN

Ouachita Baptist softball saw its season come to an end in the quarterfinal of the Great American Conference Tournament on Friday in a 9-2 loss to Southeastern Oklahoma State in Bentonville, Arkansas. Sloane Precure and Hope Waid each drove in runs for the Tigers.

After back-to-back singles by Waid and Heather Brown, Precure's first-inning base hit plated Waid with the game's first run. The Savage Storm answered with an unearned run of their own in the bottom of the frame.

The Tigers manufactured a run to take the lead back in the second, as Kirsten Shaw led off with a single, advanced to second on Kendyl Dockter's sacrifice bunt, took third on Kyndal Moyer's groundout, and scored on Waid's second hit of the night. Nikki Schneider set Southeastern down 1-2-3 in the bottom of the second.

The third inning proved to be the turning point in the game. Ouachita put runners at first and third with nobody out in the top of the frame but was unable to score. Two doubles and a home run put the Savage Storm on top for good.

Southeastern scored a run in the fourth, one in the fifth, and three in the sixth to extend the lead as the Tigers went down in order in each of those innings.

Kellen Church led off the top of the seventh with a pinch-hit single. Brown's second hit of the game put runners at first and second with two out, but they would end the game there.

THREE THINGS TO KNOW

-      -  The Tigers entered the GAC Tournament as the No. 6 seed, their highest tournament seeding in program history

-      -  Ouachita finished the year with its first-ever winning conference record

-      -  The Tigers' Nos. 1-3 hitters combined to go 6-11 Friday

BY THE NUMBERS

6 – Waid recorded her sixth consecutive multi-hit game
13 – Brown's two-hit game was her 13^th multi-hit effort of the season
13 – Precure picked up her 13^th multi-hit game of the year
1.09 - Schneider ended the season with the lowest singe-season WHIP of any Tiger pitcher in program history at 1.09 (min. 75.0 IP)
2.46 - Schneider's 2021 earned run average of 2.46 is the third-lowest in program history
2.83 - Madison Miller finished the season with a 2.83 ERA, the eighth-lowest in program history
.383 - Brown's .383 batting average for the season ranks eighth all-time (Min. 100 AB)
.450 - Brown's .450 on-base percentage is the No. 7 single-season mark in the Ouachita record book
.377 - Waid finished the year with the program's ninth-best single season average at .377
.327 - Precure ends her career sixth in career batting average at .327 (Min. 250 AB)
.371 - Precure's career .371 OBP is ninth all-time
38 - Callie Jourdan's 38 chances handled without an error are the fourth-most in a season by a Tiger defender
2.97 - The Tiger pitching staff's 2.97 cumulative ERA is the team's lowest since the 2011 season
.300 - Ouachita batted .300 as a team, its best mark since 2010