Softball | 4/27/2013 7:53:00 PM
Box Score
McPherson, Kan. – By winning three of their last four games, the Lady Bulldogs have earned a slot in the 2013 KCAC Softball Championships. The team’s latest victory came against the Sterling Warriors 8-2 six inning affair; the game was cut short due to precipitation.
Game 1 – vs. Sterling College – W 8-2
The two teams were slated to play twice on April 26
th but Mother Nature had other plans, fortunately for Mac, they took care of business from the start to grab the six-inning, game one win. The Lady ‘Dogs scored in the bottom of the first and then again in the third, tying things at 2-2. Six runs for MC in the final two innings put them at an untouchable distance and with the rain coming down, the game was called.
Ariel McGee (Denver, Colo.) led the way for McPherson on a 2-of-3 night with a base on balls as well; she tallied two RBI and scored four times herself.
Jenna Kaiser (Billings, Mont.) knocked in a three-run bomb in the sixth for her team-high three RBI.
Allison Love (Tulsa, Okla.) and
McKenna Deckard (Hutchinson, Kan.) each logged a hit in the 8-2 win.
The Lady Warriors outhit MC by one and were led by Taylor Baxter who totaled three. Yolanda Alailefaleula was next on the hit list with two.
Al. Love pitched yet another complete game for the Lady Bulldogs; she struck out three of the 28 batters she faced while allowing the two earned runs.
McPherson will take on No. 1 seed Friends University on Wednesday in day one of the conference postseason tournament; Mac will be looking for some of that men’s basketball luck as they attempt to dethrone the KCAC Regular Season Champions.
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