ARKADELPHIA, Arkansas – With the initial games getting pushed back from Tuesday to Wednesday due to weather, Henderson State fell to Ouachita Baptist in the rescheduled contests, 5-1 and 11-7.
 
True-freshman Justine Burch had an exceptional day at the plate, going 5-of-6 with one RBI and one run. Fellow freshman Madison Treutlein was the standout for the Reddies in the latter game of the doubleheader, going 2-3 with three RBIs. Coming into the day, the Frisco, Texas, native only had one RBI on the season.
 
Henderson St. (5-18, 3-5) will head to Searcy, Arkansas, to take on the Harding Lady Bisons this weekend, beginning with a single game Saturday at 3 p.m. followed by a Sunday twin bill beginning at 12 p.m.
 
Game 1: Ouachita Baptist 5, Henderson State 1
Henderson St. saw a single hit in each of its first three at-bats while the Tigers put up a quick two runs in their first at-bat on their home field and an additional run in the third to see a 3-0 lead. With a Monica Monreal single to start things off in the fourth, the Reddies were able to get on the board moments later when pinch-runner Britlyn Garrett came across the plate.
 
The 3-1 deficit stayed with Henderson through the bottom of the fourth when Johnson struck out two batters and forced a third into a groundout to move play to the fifth. With nothing happening for the Reddies during the visitor's half of the inning, OBU added another two runs in the bottom of the fifth to seize the 5-1 advantage.
 
The top of the seventh came with the four-run deficit still facing HSU and with one final chance to extend play. After back-to-back singles from Addison Tidwell and Burch occupied first and second with only one out, the next two batters for the Reddies were retired via a groundout and a strikeout to hand OBU the game-one victory, 5-1.
 
Game 2: Ouachita Baptist 11, Henderson State 7
The second game of the doubleheader had HSU score the first run of the outing, as a two-out single from Madison Treutlein scored Bre Jones, who registered a single just prior out of the two-hole spot. A run from the Tigers in the bottom of the first, however, knotted up the contest at one apiece.
 
In the second, after Burch sent one of her three hits in the game to right center for a double, Abbie Moore delivered her team-leading fifth home run of the season to put the Reddies back up, 3-1. Yet again, OBU had an answer, rattling off four runs in the bottom of the second thanks to a two-out triple from the Tigers with the bases loaded that scored three.
 
With the scoreboard reading 5-3 in favor of Ouachita, HSU saw its first scoreless inning of the game in the third, leaving the door open for OBU to extend its lead to 9-3. Henderson returned to its scoring ways in the fourth with Tidwell and Savannah Hughes coming across the plate for two more runs, but the damage had been done.
 
With Ouachita adding two more insurance runs in the bottom of the sixth to bring the tally to 11-5, the Reddies used a two-out, two-RBI single from Treutlein to score Jones and Moore to give HSU hope. Henderson even loaded the bases with the ensuing batter taking a base after getting hit by a pitch, but a strikeout moments later gave the Tigers the second game, 11-7.