Game 1 Box Score (Truman 6-4)

Game 2 Box Score (Truman 6-2)

ROLLA, Mo. - - The Truman softball team earned a pair of Great Lakes Valley Conference road victories on Sunday afternoon, picking up wins of 6-4 and 6-2 at Route 63 rival Missouri S&T.

Sophomore catcher Lex Van Nostrand tallied four hits on the day, batting .500 with a double, while senior outfielder Ally McReynolds added three doubles and a pair of RBI of her own in the victories. Junior Kindra Henze picked up a win and a save, as she appeared in both games, while the Bulldog offense backed up the pitching staff with a team batting average of .356 on the day.

The Bulldogs, now 19-5 overall and 9-1 in the GLVC, travel to Springfield on Monday for a noon doubleheader against Drury. The Panthers (10-14, 3-7 GLVC) picked up a home sweep of Quincy on Sunday afternoon.

Game 1 Recap

Junior Kelsea Dorsey picked up her 10th win, Henze tossed a two-pitch save, and both McReynolds and sophomore outfielder Haley Wells recorded two RBIs in a 6-4 game one victory against the Miners.

Truman jumped on top in the second, as back-to-back doubles by junior infielder Whitney Richardson and McReynolds plated the game's opening run. After S&T tied the game in the third, the Bulldogs scored two in the fourth to take a 3-1 lead. With pinch-running sophomore Valerie Schmidt on third and McReynolds standing on second, Wells put a two-run single through the left side.

S&T knotted the game with a two-run home run in the home half of the fourth, before the Bulldog bats got heated up in the top of the fifth. Senior infielder Andrea Klipsch started the inning with a four-pitch walk, before a pair of infield singles for Van Nostrand and senior infielder Liz Leath loaded the bags with nobody out. After a wild pitch permitted Klipsch to scamper home, Richardson then delivered an RBI single that plated Van Nostrand for a 5-3 lead. McReynolds added an RBI groundout that scored Leath, bringing the margin to 6-3.

The Miners made matters interesting in the bottom of the seventh, as a walk and an RBI double with two outs brought the margin to 6-4. That chased Dorsey, who pitched 6.2 innings of five strikeout ball, in favor of Henze, who needed just two pitches to induce a game-ending popout for her second career save.

Van Nostrand, Leath, Richardson, and McReynolds posted a combined 8-for-13 line from the Nos. 3-6 spots in the order, with both Wells and junior outfielder Nikki Moss adding one hit each.

Game 2 Recap

The Bulldogs pounded out 11 hits, five coming for multiple bases, in polishing off a 6-2 win and a Sunday sweep of S&T.

After falling behind 1-0 through one inning, the Bulldogs capitalized on an unearned run in the top of the second to even the score at one apiece.

That score would carry all the way to the fifth, when freshman infielder Jamie Fowle sent a one-out home run down the left field line to put the 'Dogs on top, 2-1. A Richardson single later in the inning would bring home Klipsch, who singled three batters prior, to push the lead to 3-1.

The Miners closed the gap to 3-2 in the sixth on a leadoff home run, but the Bulldogs cashed in three runs of insurance in the top of the seventh to re-build the gap. Klipsch and Van Nostrand traded doubles to start the inning, moving the lever to 4-2, before another Miner error allowed Van Nostrand to score for a 5-2 lead. Wells then punctuated the inning with an RBI double, scoring McReynolds, as the purple and white then led 6-2.

Every run would be appreciated, however, as the Miners loaded the bases in the bottom of the seventh, but Henze capped her complete game with a pop-out to second base, leaving the runners stranded for the final score. Henze moved to 9-4 on the year, striking out eight and allowing just two runs with one walk. The top of the Bulldog lineup (Fowle-Klipsch-Van Nostrand) combined for six hits and four runs, while McReynolds also touched home twice in the win.