WACO, Texas – Abilene Christian softball dropped a 6-0 decision to 13th-ranked Baylor Wednesday evening at Getterman Stadium. The Wildcats registered three base hits, including a
Holly Neese triple to lead off the seventh inning, but couldn't get her home as reliever Shelby McGlaun finished the game with a foul out, line out and ground out to give the Bears their 29th win of the spring.
The Wildcats fell to 18-14 and will next play host to Southland Conference rival Texas A&M-Corpus Christi for a three-game series beginning with Friday's 5 p.m. doubleheader.
Baylor's Gia Rondoni improved to 9-1 after one-hitting the Wildcats over 5.0 innings on 63 pitches. She struck out six batters and then turned the game over to McGlaun to begin the sixth. McGlaun gave up a two-out single to ACU shortstop
Peyton Hedrick followed by Neese's triple an inning later.
Hannah Null started for the Wildcats and gave up four runs on six hits and a walk over 2.2 innings. The Bears scored once in the first on a one-out RBI single by Lindsey Cargill, and in the third, they scored three times thanks to a two run single by Shelby Friudenberg (3-for-3, 4 RBI) and solo home run by McGlaun, who started the game at first base.
Baylor tacked on a pair of insurance runs off reliever
Sidney Holman in the fourth when Friudenberg delivered her second two-run single of the night. From there, Holman allowed just one more base runner as the Bears were held scoreless in the sixth and seventh innings. Holman got McGlaun to fly out to center in ending the fourth, and retired three straight in the fifth after issuing a leadoff walk. She then retired the side in order in the seventh, finishing with 42 pitches.
Null recorded 45 pitches and the only strikeout by Wildcat pitching.
Taylor Brown broke up Rondoni's bid for a no-hitter with a two-out single to center in the third inning that was the 199th of her career.
