Box Score SEWANEE, Tenn. –
Sydney Tackett posted three hits and three RBIs,
Abbie Buckner added two hits and three runs scored and Reagan Huskey tossed a complete game in Sewanee's 10-2 victory over Hendrix College in softball action Sunday in Conway, Ark.
The Tigers (9-27, 5-9 SAA) won the series, 2-1, over the Warriors thanks to an 11-hit attack.
The Tigers started very quickly for the third straight game in the series, plating four runs in the first inning.
Zoe Crockett collected two hits and two runs scored and
Ansley Giffin drove in a pair of runs for Sewanee.
Huskey (7-12) allowed two runs on six hits with one walk and five strikeouts. She retired nine of the first 10 batters of the game and stranded the bases loaded in the sixth before the Tigers added four insurance runs in the top of the seventh.
Buckner was hit to leadoff the game and
Madilyn Parker followed with a single to rightcenter, putting runners on the corners. Tackett's sacrifice fly to center scored a run and Parker took second on the throw to the plate.
With two outs
Hannah Wilson walked and Crockett then singled, driving in a run. Crockett advanced to second on the throw home and Giffin's single to leftcenter pushed across Wilson and Crockett for a 4-0 Sewanee advantage after a half inning.
In the second Buckner was hit with one out, stole second and came across on Tackett's two-out single to rightcenter, extending the lead to 5-0.
The Tigers loaded the bases in the third thanks to a walk to Giffin and singles by
Sarah Storsteen and Buckner, but Parker flied out to end the threat.
The Warriors (7-23, 2-13) got two runs back in the fourth after a leadoff single by Paizley Vaught and a single down the rightfield line from Ashlynn Fowler. With one out Samantha Wood bunted and it got past Huskey, loading the bases.
Kendyl Patton was hit, forcing in a run, and Tori Maldonado grounded into a fielder's choice, with the Tigers getting an out at third but another run coming across on the play, cutting the Sewanee advantage to 5-2.
The Tigers added a run in the sixth with a two-out double down the leftfield line by Tackett followed by an RBI single to leftcenter from
Maggie Barker for a 6-2 lead.
Sewanee added to the lead in the seventh, starting with a leadoff single to left by Crockett and pinch-hitter
Kaylie Smith and Storsteen both walked, loading the bases. With one out Buckner dumped a single into short right, plating a run, and Parker chopped a ball over the mound, scoring another.
Tackett then drilled a hot-shot that went off the glove of the second baseman and into short right, allowing two runs to come across, extending the advantage to 10-2.
In the bottom of the seventh pinch-hitter Nakia Fields led off with a single and Betty Wolfe followed with a single. With one out Vaught reached on an error, loading the bases, but Fowler flied to left and Tackett threw out Fields at the plate for a doubleplay to end the game.
Sewanee ends the regular season next weekend with a three-game series at Centre College starting Saturday at 11 a.m. CT.
