WICHITA, Kan.  – After winning two games at the Friends University tournament on Saturday (Mar. 7), the Mid-America Christian University Lady Evangels split today's (Mar. 8) games to wrap up the tourney with a 3-1 record.  MACU stumbled in eight innings to the Friends University Falcons but bounced back in a big way to shut out the McPherson College Lady Bulldogs 10-0. 

Katie Gracey homered to snap a 2-2 tie against Friends in the seventh, only to have the Falcons stage a two-out rally and pull even on a fielder's choice by Rachel Shockley. 

With the international tie breaker in effect, Jackie Hilterbran hit a sacrifice fly that scored Carson Osborne to temporarily put the Lady Evangels on top in the eighth.

But the Falcons upstaged the Lady Evangels as RBI singles by Jasmine Bouie and Kayla Romey in the bottom of the frame gave Friends the win.

Kenna McCoy had two hits in three at-bats for MACU and Kelcie Wolf started on the mound, pitching six innings and giving up only one run with seven strikeouts.

In the second game of the day, Mykah Smith and Tymber Howard each drove in three runs, while Hilterbran was a perfect 3-of-3 at the plate.

The Lady Evangels (10-4) got going in the first with four runs, started by RBI singles from Hilterbran and Natalie Bissell.  Smith then finished the inning with a two-run homer that made it 4-0.

MACU didn't score again until plating six runs in the fifth inning.  Howard capped the frame with a bases-clearing three-run double that also featured an RBI double by Hannah Lynch and run-scoring singles from Hilterbran and Smith. 

Caitlin Swain was superb on the mound for the Lady Evangels, blanking the Lady Bulldogs in four innings of work on only two hits with a pair of strikeouts.

Ashley Sanford then came on and pitched a spotless fifth inning and struck out one.

Lynch also had two hits in the win for the Lady Evangels.

The Lady Evangels will next begin Sooner Athletic Conference action Tuesday afternoon (Mar. 10) at Southwestern Christian University.  The games are set to begin at 2 p.m. in Bethany, Okla.