SAN ANTONIO, Texas – McMurry University Softball split its high-scoring doubleheader at Trinity University Friday evening, as the combined time of the games was five and a half hours. The War Hawks took game one, 12-9, before falling in the nightcap, 14-8.
The War Hawks will be back at it again tomorrow with a doubleheader at Southwestern University beginning at 1 p.m.
McMurry 12, Trinity 9
The War Hawks (5-1) jumped all over the Tigers (1-3) in the first inning, scoring six runs. Rachel Ripley got the scoring started with a two run homer, her second of the year. Hope Schoeneman would then add an RBI single, followed by a two-run single by Avery McDaniel and an RBI base knock by Mikayla Krause.
Trinity got right back in the game in the bottom half of the inning, scoring on an RBI single, before scoring four runs on a single and an error to pull within a run.
Schoeneman would drive in another run in the fourth, and then the War Hawks added five more in the top of the sixth. McMurry scored runs by way of a base hit, two errors, a fielder's choice and a sacrifice fly in the frame.
However, the Tigers made a final push in the bottom of the sixth for the final tally.
Schoeneman got the win in the circle with 5.1 innings pitched, allowing eight runs, of which only four were earned. She allowed 12 hits and struck out three. Cheyenne West got the final five outs of the game, shutting the door with a scoreless seventh inning.
Nina Hernandez was 4-for-5 with three runs scored, while Ripley finished 3-for-5 with two runs and two RBIs. Kollin Morris added two hits, two runs and an RBI, while McDaniel added two runs in addition to here two-run single. Krause had two RBIs, as well.
The War Hawks took advantage of six Tiger errors in the game.
Trinity 14, McMurry 8
In game two, the teams combined for 17 runs in the first two innings, and 21 after three before things settled down. After Trinity scored four in the bottom of the first, McMurry answered with seven of their own in the top of the second.
Megyn Castillo drew a walk for the first McMurry run, and the flood gates opened up. Krause drove in a run with a single, followed by RBIs from Ripley, Kasey Woolard, Hernandez and Morris to take a three-run lead.
But the Tigers answered with another big inning of their own, scoring six times to take a 10-7 advantage.
McMurry would get a run back in the third on an error, but Trinity scored three times in the bottom half and added an insurance run in the fifth for the final margin.
Much like the War Hawks using errors to their benefit in game one, the Tigers did the same as Mcmurry committed five of them in game two.
Madison Morgan took the loss in the circle, allowing seven runs – four earned – in 1.1 innings.
The War Hawks chased the Tigers' starter in the second, but reliever Allie Holbrook allowed just one run in five innings of relief for the win.
