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LeTourneau softball
6
Winner Southwestern SU 5-9
4
LeTourneau LETUSB 6-4
Winner
Southwestern SU
5-9
6
Final
4
LeTourneau LETUSB
6-4
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E
Southwestern SU 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 4 6 10 4
LeTourneau LETUSB 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 4 7 3

W: Hailey Arrington (3-3) L: Leger, Hailee (3-2)

Game Recap: Softball | | Andrew Mindeman, Associate AD for Communications

Softball Suffers Extra-Inning Loss to Southwestern

LONGVIEW, Texas -- Taken to extra innings for the first time this season, the LeTourneau softball team could not overcome a four-run eighth from visiting Southwestern in a 6-4 loss on Tuesday evening at the Joyce Family Athletic Village.

The loss was the fourth straight for LeTourneau (6-4).

The YellowJackets battled back from a two-run deficit in the fifth.

Southwestern took a 2-0 lead in the fourth with a pair of runs, but LeTourneau answered in the fifth. With runners on first and second and two outs, Callie Poore produced a RBI single that snuck through the right side of the infield to score Mickenzie Murry. Izzy Tresca followed with a pinch-hit, RBI single to left field that plated Murphy Williams with the tying run. 

The pinch-hit run-scoring single from Tresca was her third of the season.

Hailee Leger came on in relief and shut the door on Southwestern over the next two innings and neither team threatened to score.

Playing with the International Tiebreaker rule in place in the eighth, Southwestern took a 3-2 lead on an Erica Otto leadoff RBI single. Leger was nearly out of the inning holding to the one-run deficit, but LeTourneau committed a pair of errors on consecutive batters that allowed three more runs to score as the Pirates grabbed a 6-2 lead.

In the bottom of the inning, Alexa Neilon singled home Maddie Flanery and Leighton Landreth followed with an RBI single of her own to draw LeTourneau within 6-4. Southwestern's Hailee Arrington held the YellowJackets there to preserve the win for the guests.

Poore went 2-for-3 with an RBI while Williams, Tresca, Lexi Hutchins, Neilon, and Landreth all had one hit each.

Leger (3-2) was saddled with the loss as she went four innings and surrendered four unearned runs on three hits with three strikeouts. Laney Taylor made the start and went four innings with one earned run and five strikeouts.

Arrington (3-3) got the win after tossing the final 1.2 innings in relief for the Pirates. Southwestern totaled 10 hits in the win.

UP NEXT

LeTourneau hosts Concordia Texas for three games this weekend starting with a doubleheader on Friday (4 p.m.).

 
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