'Roo Softball Falls Twice at UST

HOUSTON, Texas - The Austin College softball team dropped both halves of its Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader at the University of St. Thomas on Saturday, falling 11-0 in game one and 12-2 in game two. The 'Roos are now 4-12 overall and 4-10 in conference play.

Austin College kept things tight through the first few innings of game one, as the Celts put one run across in the first and another in the second to make it 2-0. Two more runs scored in the third to push it to a 4-0 game, but the fourth proved to be decisive as St. Thomas pushed seven runs across to end the game after five via the run rule. Savana Henken and Chloe Bennett got the scoring started in the frame by driving in a run each, and five more runs came home in the frame to wrap things up. 

McKinley Hankins took the loss for Austin College, surrendering six runs - five earned - on 10 hits in 3.0 innings, while Allison Hughes got the win for the Celts. Lauren Trott went 2-for-2 at the dish to pace Austin College offensively in the loss.

The 'Roos jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first in game two, as Reagan Brinkley doubled home a run and later scored on a double by Trott, but that was the end of the offense for Austin College. The Celts pushed three runs across in the bottom of the first and three more in the second to make it a 6-2 game, and that was the score until the fourth, when six runs came around for UST to make it 12-2 and once again finish things up with the mercy rule.

Trott got the loss for Austin College, pitching 4.0 innings while giving up 12 runs on 13 hits with eight walks and a strikeout in 4.0 innings, and Victoria Sossaman got the win for UST after giving up two runs on six hits in 5.0 innings. Six different players notched a base hit for Austin College in defeat.