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Texas Southern TSU 0-2
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Winner UIW UIW 1-0
Texas Southern TSU
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Final
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UIW UIW
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Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Texas Southern TSU 2 0 0 0 2 2 0 6 9 1
UIW UIW 0 0 3 0 0 4 X 7 10 0

W: Floyd, Madison (1-0) L: Mariah Youngblood (0-1)

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Winner North Dakota UND 1-1
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UIW UIW 1-1
Winner
North Dakota UND
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Final
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UIW UIW
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Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E
North Dakota UND 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 3 6 8 2
UIW UIW 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 5 7 3

W: Nikki Pica (1-0) L: Gunther, Annie (0-1) S: Jannay Jones (1)

Game Recap: Softball |

Softball opens season splitting first day of H-E-B Classic

SAN ANTONIO – The University of the Incarnate Word softball team split their first two games of the H-E-B Classic on Friday as they defeated Texas Southern, 7-6 and then fell to North Dakota, 6-5 in extra innings. 

GAME 1 NOTABLES

  • Maddie Floyd pitched her first collegiate win as she threw six strong innings with six strikeouts.
  • Multiple Cardinals recorded their first career hits and RBIs in the game: Bella Sanchez, Jazmine Torres and Kendall McGary.
  • Freshman Abby Frank scored the first run of the season for the Cardinals and the first of her career. She also recorded her first career hit with a double.
  • Tori Alvarez-Lopez collected her first Division I hit and RBI in her second at bat in the third inning.
  • Hailey Goins went 2-3 in the game with one run scored.

GAME 2 NOTABLES

  • Jaylin Olivarez played a superb game on both sides of the ball and accounted for two timely hits and an RBI.
  • It was another good game at the plate for McGary as she finished with two hits in the leadoff spot.
  • Sanchez, Olivarez and McGary all finished with three hits on the day. Alvarez-Lopez accounted for three RBIs after the first two games.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Game 1 vs. Texas Southern

This young Cardinals team showed their grit in the opening game of the season as they came back from down three runs in the bottom of the sixth to win 7-6. The game had many firsts for a Cardinals team that started six freshmen and one JUCO transfer.

After shaking off the jitters of the first inning, down 2-0, the Cardinals punched back in the bottom of the third. Alvarez-Lopez put the Cardinals on the board with an RBI double to right center. Freshman Abby Frank scored the first run of the young season and the first of her career with the hit.

Alvarez-Lopez was followed up by freshman Bella Sanchez who got her second hit (first career hit came in the second inning) of the game with an RBI single through the left side to tie the game at 2-2.

The theme continued as another freshman, Jazmine Torres, also got her first career hit and RBI as she singled through the right side. The single gave the team a 3-2 lead.

The Tigers showed their muscle as they put together two runs in the fifth and two in the sixth to take a 6-3 lead.

Down three with six outs left, the Cardinals buckled down and strung together some great at bats. McGary got it started with an RBI single to cut the deficit to 6-4. With the bases loaded, Alvarez-Lopez put the ball in play to third. That's all it took as a wild throw allowed two runners to score to tie it up.

Savannah Behabetz hit a sacrifice fly to left to drive McGary home and give the Cardinals the final lead of the game.

Game 2 vs. North Dakota

After a slow start to the game that saw UIW take a 1-0 lead after four innings, the game picked up in the fifth. North Dakota scored two runs in the top of the fifth to give themselves the late lead.

But the Cardinals responded, as they had in the previous game, with two of their own to regain the lead at 3-2. North Dakota tied it up with a home run in the top of the sixth and the score would remain tied for two more innings. Olivarez made a stunning diving catch, turning it into a double play, as she threw out the runner at first in a momentum-changing play.

In the eighth inning, the Fighting Hawks came out swinging and put up three quick runs to give them what should have been a comfortable win.

But in the bottom half of the inning, the Cardinals showed their resilience once again led by Torres and Olivarez. Torres grounded out to short but secured an RBI in the process. Then, Olivarez ripped an RBI single to left field to cut the lead to 6-5.

The Cardinals were unable to complete to comeback, but they showed that they are never out of any game.

UP NEXT

UIW returns for day two of the invitational and will host North Dakota again at 2 p.m., followed by Toledo at 4 p.m.

STAY TUNED 
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The UIW softball team is on Twitter at @UIWSoftball and Instagram at @uiwsoftball.

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