SAN ANTONIO -- The University of the Incarnate Word softball team came up just short to UTSA on Tuesday when the Roadrunners hit a walk-off home run in the bottom of the seventh to earn a 4-2 victory over the Cardinals.

NOTABLES

• Renee Hoffman pitched five shutout innings before allowing her first run. She finished the game with 6.2 IP and three strikeouts. She surrendered just three earned runs on four hits, carving through the majority of the vaunted UTSA lineup all evening.
• The freshman also picked up the team's lone RBI on a sacrifice fly in the fourth inning. Hoffman is now batting .293 with a double, a home run, three RBIs and three runs scored in games she's pitched. 
• Shelby Neatherlin went 1-2 with a run scored.
• Hope Sobolewski and Delaney Guzman each finished the day 1-3.
• Teanna Lucio made a heads-up play, taking home on a wild pitch to score the first run of the game for UIW.

HOW IT HAPPENED
The game was scoreless through the first three innings before Lucio put the Cardinals on the board by advancing from third to home on a wild pitch. Hoffman notched a sacrifice fly later in the inning to open up a 2-0 lead for UIW. In the bottom of the sixth, UTSA scored its first runs of the game off a two-run homer that just scraped its way past Lucio's outstretched glove in left-center field and over the wall to tie the game up. Then, in the bottom of the seventh, the Roadrunners hit another two-run home run to win the game in walk-off fashion, 4-2.

UP NEXT
The Cardinals have a quick turnaround with a doubleheader against Texas A&M in College Station tomorrow starting at 3 p.m.

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