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WILMINGTON, N.C. – The Morehead State softball team dropped a pair of games to Gardner-Webb and Maryland-Baltimore County on Sunday at UNC Wilmington.
MSU scored five runs off six hits, but the effort wasn’t enough as it dropped its first contest of the day, 9-5, to Gardner-Webb. In the second contest of the day, UMBC used a five-run seventh inning to defeat MSU, 7-4. The losses dropped MSU to 2-5. The Runnin’ Bulldogs improved to 1-4, and UMBC moved to 1-7.
In the opener, senior Katie Pfost pitched 5.2 innings and suffered the loss in the circle to drop to 2-2, and junior Greta Smeins threw 2.1 innings of relief. Pfost was charged with six earned runs.
Senior Kayla Ashbrook led MSU with a pair of doubles, and fellow senior Anna Sommer had a pair of RBI.
In game two, UMBC got itself on the board early, and the Eagles were forced to play catch-up until they took an eventual 3-2 lead in the sixth inning. Ashbrook connected on her first home run of the season in the inning, and freshman Tressa Watson rapped an RBI single.
The comeback was not enough as UMBC strung together a series of singles to start the seventh inning and went on to the victory.
Smeins allowed the tying and go-ahead runs on base before Pfost entered the circle in relief. Smeins fell to 0-2 with the decision. Both Pfost and junior Kelcey McMurray had two strikeouts for the Eagles.
Ashbrook led MSU offensively with a pair of hits and an RBI, and senior Adrena Anderson also added a pair of her own.
The Eagles are back in action on Friday when they travel to East Tennessee State for the Buccaneer Challenge. MSU will face Bowling Green and ETSU twice over the weekend.
