Ft. Worth, Texas -- The Mid-America Christian University Softball Evangels began the Sooner Athletic Conference season with a split at the Texas Wesleyan University Lady Rams today (Mar. 10) at Sycamore Park in Ft. Worth, Texas. MACU took the opening game 4-1 but the Lady Rams gained a split with a 4-2 win in the second game. 

The Evangels led the first game 2-1 after an inning and then tacked on two more valuable insurance runs in the fifth inning. 

Courtney Anderson turned in another solid outing in circle for MACU, allowing only one run with three strikeouts and no walks over seven innings. 

Tiphani Napier and Hanna Harris each doubled and went 2-of-3. Harris had two RBIs and Napier drove in one run. 

Brittany Rosenberry absorbed the loss for the Lady Rams in the first game after surrendering three earned runs and striking out six. 

TWU jumped on top in the nightcap behind two RBIs from Kayla Prachyl and led 3-0 after five innings. 

The Evangels got on the board in the sixth inning as Napier stayed hot with a two-run homer in the top of the sixth inning to make it a one-run game. 

But the Lady Rams picked up a run in the bottom of the sixth and TWU starter Lauren Wernet held the Evangels off the board in the seventh to finish off the win. 

Larissa Tate was two-of-three for the Evangels (6-12, 1-1 SAC), while the Lady Rams (13-8, 1-1 SAC) got two hits each from Prachyl, Samantha Vasquez and Demi Dotson in the second game. 

Napier was three-of-five in the two games today and is now 19-of-26 (.731) in her last eight games and is now hitting .571 for the season, with three homers and 24 RBIs. 

MACU starter Morgan Wardlow gave up three earned runs in six innings, with Wernet allowing two runs and striking out four in seven innings. 

The Evangels will now turn around and play at Southwestern Assemblies of God University tomorrow (Mar. 11) starting at noon in Waxahachie, Texas.