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ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – The Henderson State softball team will play its second home tournament of the young 2022 season this weekend when Texas A&M-Kingsville, Christian Brothers and Midwestern State come to Arkadelphia for the HSU/OBU Tournament Feb. 19-20.
 
The Reddies will get their weekend started at Dee White Field with Texas A&M-Kingsville Saturday, Feb. 19 at 11 a.m. and then against Christian Brothers at 1:30 p.m. Henderson will close out its tournament play with Midwestern St. Sunday, Feb. 20 at 10 a.m. With several other games being played at HSU as the tournament host, you can see the entire tournament page HERE.
 
REDDIES REPORT
In softball's last outing at the Portland Tournament, the day's final doubleheader showed HSU fall to St. Mary's, 3-1, before losing to tournament-host Texas A&M-Kingsville, 6-0. In the St. Mary's contest, freshman Erika Bittinger led the Reddies with two hits while only trailing the Rattlers, 2-1, heading into the seventh inning less than 24 hours removed from losing to the same STMU team, 13-1.
 
Henderson has four players batting .300 or better, led by Bittinger with a .357 batting average. Monica Monreal, who is batting .308, leads the team with eight hits and three home runs. The junior from Ennis, Texas, is slugging a team-best .692, as she has accumulated 18 total bases in nine games played.
 
With the majority of David Martinez's team being freshman, the second-year head coach has gotten solid production out of the newcomers. Of the four players hitting .300 or better, two are freshman: Bittinger and Jordyn Holland, who is hitting .300 with three hits through four games. Brooke Johnson leads the team with two doubles while also leading the team with a 2.80 ERA in the circle during her freshman campaign, having struck out 10 batters to lead the HSU pitching staff.
 
Game one of Saturday's twin bill against Texas A&M-Kingsville will be the second time this season the Reddies will go up against the Javelinas. The first meeting came in last weekend's Portland Tournament when TAMUK defeated HSU, 6-0. Henderson kept it close early on, as pitcher Krystal Lindsey worked three up, three down in the first two innings before the game opened up in the third.
 
Henderson played Christian Brothers in Arkadelphia twice last season, winning both games, 10-2 and 4-3. Abbie Moore and Ashlyn Taylor each saw two hits in the one-run victory while Moore registered two more hits in the latter game as Savannah Carrigan pitched all five innings as HSU forced the run-rule. In the last eight meetings, HSU has only lost to CBU twice.
 
Sunday's meeting with Midwestern State will be the first matchup between the two schools since 2013 when MSU defeated the Reddies in Arkadelphia, 10-5. Henderson has only ever played the Mustangs in Arkadelphia, with HSU's only victory coming back in 2012, 4-1. Midwestern, who will play two games on Saturday prior to meeting the Reddies, is currently 1-4 on the season.