Saturday, February 27, 2016

UAM Softball Splits With Oklahoma Baptist

SHAWNEE, Oklahoma - The University of Arkansas at Monticello softball team split a pair of Great American Conference road games with Oklahoma Baptist on Friday, falling the first game 7-3 and winning the second game 3-1 in eight innings.

Senior Elizabeth Delafield (3-2) threw a complete-game for UAM in the second game, giving up only one run off five hits with three strikeouts and three walks. Oklahoma Baptist's Amanda Peterson (1-2) was equally as impressive throughout regulation, and ended up with three runs allowed off seven hits with seven strikeouts and five walks.

The Bison (3-8, 1-5 GAC) struck first in the second game with one run in the bottom of the fourth. The Blossoms (9-5, 5-1 GAC) tied it up in the top of the sixth on an RBI pinch-hit single from Jordan Williams to score freshman Kali Bolter, who walked to lead off the inning.

After neither team reached the scoreboard in the seventh, the Blossoms broke the tie in the first extra inning with two runs off three hits, a bases-loaded hit batter and one OBU error.


In the first game, UAM opened the scoring in the top of the first on an RBI single by Bolter, but then reached base only once more on a walk in the next five innings.

The Bison scored one in the first, two in the second and three in the fifth to build a 6-1 lead. UAM busted from its slump with single runs in the sixth and seventh innings, the first on a sac fly from Bolter and the second on an RBI single by senior Holly Wilmarth.

OBU finalized the scoring with one run in the bottom of the sixth, and finished with a 9-6 advantage in the hit column.

The series wraps up on Saturday with a double-header starting at 1 p.m. in Shawnee.

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