OKLAHOMA CITY -- The Mid-America Christian Lady Evangels won their second conference game of the season with a 4-3 victory against St. Gregory's University Thursday Afternoon (Feb. 27th) at Jack Allen Field. The Lady Evangels then dropped the second game to the Cavaliers 13-2.
Amber Tinney produced a dominant outing in the first game for the Lady Evangels by allowing only three earned runs and striking out seven in her eight innings of work on the mound.
The Cavaliers got on top in the first inning by scoring one run, but the Lady Evangels attacked in the bottom of the first by scoring three runs.
Taylor Green got it started with a lead-off double and Ashley Sanford had an RBI-single to right field to score Green to tie up the game with two outs. The Lady Evangels then jumped ahead when Hannah Lynch came through with a two-run homer.
The Cavaliers managed to score one more run in the second and another run in the third when Randi Yousey began the inning off with a triple to left field and was later drove in by Whitney Anderson. The Lady Evangels made sure to keep the Cavaliers there with a 3-3 ballgame until the international tie breaker in the 8th.
Tinney shut out the Cavaliers by stranding the runner on the bases in the tie breaker.
In the bottom of the 8th, Jackie Hilterbran was on second base when Sanford got down a bunt to move her over to third. Hannah Lynch then grabbed the RBI to win the game by hitting a hard ground ball to short stop to score Hilterbran.
SGU got off to a quick start in the nightcap with a two-run first inning and Dani Nissen homered to key a three-run third inning for a 5-0 lead.
The Cavaliers then blew it open in the fifth as Courtni Clark and Whitney Anderson hit RBI triples in a four-run inning.
The Cavaliers' starter for the second game, Sierra Gallego, managed to keep MACU off the board until the bottom of the 5th when Natalie Bissell took an opportunity to get MACU on the board with a lead off homerun to left center.
Carson Osborne followed up her hit by getting a single up the middle to keep the Evangels going. Tiffany Holt and Kenzie Graeber also each had a hit in the 5th and Green hit another double to score Holt to get MACU back in the game down 9-2.
Osborne was 3-for-3 at the plate, with Green being 4-for-6.
Hilterbran started for the Evangels, with relief of Kelcie Wolf and Sanford.
The Mid-America Christian University Lady Evangels will face the No. 3-ranked Oklahoma City Stars on Tuesday, March 4th at Jack Allen Field beginning at 1 p.m.
