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Box Score 2 After losing game one 5-4 in extra-innings, Henderson State rebounded to beat Ouachita Baptist 7-1 in Great American Conference softball Tuesday at OBU.
Henderson State, 21-7 overall and 12-4 in the GAC, have won 10 of its last 11 games all on the road.
The Reddies totaled 23 hits in the double-header with
Tricia Hock,
Ashlyn White and
Sarah Gipson having four hits each.
In game two, the Reddies took a 1-0 lead in the opening frame as Hock led off the game with a walk and advanced to third on a Gipson base hit. White would then drive home Hock with a base hit to right field.
After OBU tied the score in the bottom of the second, the Reddies put together three hits and score a run to regain the lead.
Courtney Warren and
Caroline Cullins both singled with Hock delivering with a base hit to score Warren and put Henderson on top 2-1.
Henderson State would add two runs in the sixth-inning as Hock came through again with a bases loaded double to score
Taylor Daniels who singled and
Alicia Zack who reached on a walk.
The Reddies added three insurance runs in the seventh as
Morgan South delivered what appeared to be a three-run home run, but OBU appealed that she missed home and South would be called out. Instead she was credited with a two-run triple. Warren would then follow with her her first collegiate home run to put Henderson on top 7-1.
Ali Hargis would pitch the first four innings for the Reddies and record the win to improve to 3-0 on the year.
Michelle Sorensen would pitch three shutout innings to record her second save of the year.
It took extra-innings to decide game one as OBU's Kailey Madden hit a bases loaded single to give the Tigers the win in the bottom of the ninth-inning.
Henderson benefitted from three Tiger errors to take a 1-0 lead in the first-inning before OBU tied the score in the bottom of the fourth on a RBI double by Jocelyn Jones.
The Reddies would take a 2-1 lead in the top of the fourth as South led off the inning with a single and later scored on OBU's fourth error of the contest.
OBU then struck for three runs in the bottom of the fourth-inning with the help of four hits.
Henderson State rallied to tie the score in the sixth as White laced a double to left-center field to score Gipson and Daniels who both singled earlier in the inning.
The Reddies had a chance to take the lead in the eighth as White singled and South roped a double to left field to put runners on second and third with one out.
Warren then hit a fly ball to right field with White attempting to score on the play. However White was gunned down at the plate to end the inning.
Henderson had 10 hits in the game with Hock, Gipson, White and south having two hits each.
Henderson State will travel to Bethany, Okla. to play a four-game series against Southern Nazarene with a double-header beginning Friday at 2 p.m.