WICHITA FALLS – The Wildcat softball team dropped a pair of games at Midwestern State on Thursday afternoon. ACU was one-hit in the first game losing 6-0 while falling in the second game 10-5.
ACU ran into Katie Peterson of Midwestern State who is one of the Lone Star Conference's top pitchers. Peterson held the Wildcats to just one hit through seven innings while striking out six and walking just one.
The Wildcats fell behind in the first inning when the Mustangs collected three runs on four hits to start the game. A two RBI single with two outs from Midwestern's Alyson Reynolds gave the Mustangs the early lead.
Shelby Hall threw her seventh complete of the season but allowed a season high 14 hits. The Wildcats pitching staff struggled as they only collected five strikeouts in two games.
Midwestern would add three more runs in the bottom of the sixth. The Mustangs did all their insurance damage with two outs in the inning as they added four more and plated the three runs for the final, 6-0.
ACU catcher, Stephanie Tingle collected the only hit for the Wildcats as her single in the first would be the final hit in the first game. Nancy Sawyers and Brianna Fowlkes were the only other two Wildcats to reach base as each drew a walk.
In the second game of the twin bill ACU fell behind again in the first when MSU centerfielder Courtney Bingham doubled to center scoring Bennett for the games' first run. However, the Wildcats bats found more field in the second game as they took the lead scoring three in the top of the second.
Fowlkes nailed a single that fit just inside the left field line scoring Sawyers, who reached via walk. Fowlkes and Anti would score on a Mustang error when they misplayed a pop up on the infield scoring the two Wildcats.
The Mustangs would respond in their half of the second as they added six runs on five hits. The inning was capped off by a MSU homerun to left giving the Mustangs back the lead. MSU would add three more runs, two in the third and one in the fourth which proved to be enough.
The Wildcats would threaten in the sixth when Melissa Mendoza recorded her eighth RBI scoring Caitlin Nabors who knocked a two out double to start the ACU rally. ACU's final run would come in the next at bat when Shawna Barrow recorded her second hit and team leading 11 RBI of the season on a single through the infield.
Barrow and Nabors both collected two hits for the Wildcats as both now have seven multi-hit games this season.
ACU falls to 8-11 on the season and will return to action on Tuesday when they travel to Lawton, Oklahoma for a doubleheader with Cameron.
