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Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Texas Southern TSU 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 4 7 2
UIW UIW 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 3 6 3

W: Chelsea Baxter (1-0) L: Coleman, Brett (1-6)

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Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E
Texas Southern TSU 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 5 8 0
UIW UIW 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 6 9 2

W: Hoffman, Renee (1-7) L: Mariah Youngblood (0-3)

Game Recap: Softball |

Softball splits doubleheader with Texas Southern

SAN ANTONIO, Texas. -- The University of the Incarnate Word softball team went 1-1 against Texas Southern in its first slate of home games Wednesday at the newly renovated H-E-B Field. The Cardinals dropped the opener, 4-3, but bounced back to split the series with a 6-5 victory in extra innings.

NOTABLES
  • Hope Sobolewski was on an absolute tear Wednesday, going 6-9 on the day with four RBIs, including a walkoff two-RBI single to win the second game.
  • Sobolewski now leads the team in RBIs (5) and slugging percentage (.400).
  • Jenna Bleiberg went 1-3 in the opening game with two RBIs. She was just a few feet away from hitting a home run, but her line drive bounced hard off the center field wall for a two-RBI single.
  • Brett Coleman tied her career high in strikeouts with six, tossing a complete game and surrendering just two earned runs on seven hits in the first game of the day.
  • Renee Hoffman picked up the first win of her collegiate career, throwing eight innings and allowing just three earned runs on eight hits. She also tied a season-high with six strikeouts.
  • Hailey Goins went 1-2 with an RBI, her first of the season, in the second game of the day.
HOW IT HAPPENED
Game 1
The bats didn't get going for either team until the fifth inning when both squads scored a pair of runs in their respective frames. Bleiberg drove in the first two runs on a deep drive off the center-field wall, while the Lady Tigers scored on a single and an error. TSU added two runs in the sixth to open up a 4-2 lead, but the Cardinals responded with an RBI single from Sobolewski to cut the deficit to just one. UIW couldn't finish the comeback, however, falling to TSU 4-3.

Game 2
UIW struck first on an RBI single from Sobolewski. Jaylin Olivarez hit a two-RBI single in the sixth to extend the Cardinals' lead to 3-0. In the top of the 7th, the Lady Tigers scratched three runs across the board to send the game into extra innings, and took their first lead of the game in the top of the eighth inning with an RBI double followed by an RBI single. But the Cardinals roared back in the bottom half of the inning, scoring on Goins' single to right field and the big two-RBI single from Sobolewski for the walkoff victory. The final score was UIW 6, TSU 5.

UP NEXT
The Cardinals hit the road again for the team's first conference series of the season, taking on defending Southland Conference Tournament champions McNeese on Friday at 5 p.m. (CT).

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