ROLLA, Mo. - Looking to replace the two games it would have played in Fulton, Mo., the Truman State University softball team traveled to Missouri S&T on Sunday for a nonconference doubleheader against its GLVC foe. The Miners run ruled the Bulldogs in game one, 10-2, and took the nightcap as well, 4-2, because of a three-run fifth inning.

Truman falls back to the .500 mark at 4-4 while Missouri S&T has won four in a row to improve to 6-3 after losses in three of its first five games. Sunday, the Purple and White managed just 11 hits in 51 at-bats (.216 batting average) as Christa Reisinger and Ashley Murphy (pictured) were the lone Bulldogs with multiple hits. Reisinger went 4-of-6 with three runs scored, a double, home run, two RBI, eight total bases, one walk, and a stolen base. Murphy was 3-for-6 including a two-hit game two.

In game one, Missouri S&T scored the first six runs and sent Truman starter, Alyssa Hajduk (3-1), to the dugout with just one down in the fourth inning. The Bulldogs got two of those runs back with a pair of RBI singles in the top of the fifth off the bats of Reisinger and Rivera. However, the Miners tacked on three in the fifth and another in the sixth to finish it.

In four innings of work, Hajduk gave up six earned runs on 10 hits with four walks, three strikeouts, a wild pitch, and two hit batters. In relief, Nicolette Simpson threw an inning and a third and surrendered four earned runs on five hits.

Truman struck first in the second game thanks to Reisinger's leadoff blast down the left field line, her first bomb of the year and 16th of her career. Missouri S&T tied things up with an RBI double in the second, but Jamie Fowle and the Bulldogs had an answer in the third. Reisinger got the party started with a bunt single to the pitcher before stealing second during Rivera's at-bat. One out later, Fowle doubled to left center and Reisinger strolled into home.

The fourth frame saw no scoring before Truman had some defensive lapses in the bottom of the fifth. After Lauren Dale issued a leadoff walk, Rivera made errors on back-to-back plays, both of which were sacrifice bunt attempts by Missouri S&T, to load up the bases. Another free pass from Dale tied up the game at 2-2 before the Miners hit a two-run double to left center that put them ahead, 4-2. The Bulldogs proceeded to strand two runners in the sixth and another in the seventh en route to the two-run decision.

Dale (1-2) took the hard-luck loss after allowing four runs, only one earned, on five hits with four walks, no strikeouts and a hit batter.

Next up, Truman will play five games in three days at Southern Indiana's Midwest Region Crossover in Evansville, Ind. on Friday-Sunday.

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