GAME ONE BOX SCORE

GAME TWO BOX SCORE

Kerrville, Texas – Lauren Vansickle recorded three hits for the second straight game to lead the Concordia University Texas softball team to a 5-3 victory over Schreiner in the nightcap of an American Southwest Conference doubleheader on Friday, March 11 at Mountaineer Stadium. The Mountaineers won the first game, 6-5, in eight innings.

After dropping the opener, Concordia (10-6, ASC 1-1) scored twice in the first two innings of the nightcap to jump out to a 4-1 lead. Vansickle led off the game with a double and scored two plays later on an RBI single by Jordan Berry, who was named the NFCA Division III National Player of the Week on Wednesday. Berry scored on a Meghan Ferrell single to double the Tornado lead in the top of the first. After Schreiner scored in the bottom of the same frame, Teylor Schiefelbein hit a two-run single to help herself out in the circle in the second frame.

Schreiner's Kalya Avreitt sliced the Tornado lead down to a single run at 4-3 with a single of her own which scored two runs in the third, but Schiefelbein retired eight straight and 13 of the last 15 hitters she faced to keep the visitors ahead. An RBI double by Alex Smith in the seventh produced the final score.

Concordia's Schiefelbein earned the victory to improve to 5-2 this season. She surrendered seven hits and three runs, which were all earned, while issuing one walk. Schreiner's Allyson Morris fell to 1-3 after getting lit up for five hits and four runs that were all earned in just 1.1 innings of work.

The first game began as a pitcher's duel before featuring a seesaw battle with two ties and one lead change. Concordia once again got on the scoreboard first with three runs in the top of the fourth. Vansickle and Ferrell each had RBI doubles in the inning to get the Tornados off to a hot start.

Schreiner (3-5, ASC 1-1), however, was able to finally figure out Tornado pitcher Kat Moreno and rallied by pushing across one run in the fourth and four in the sixth frame. Kelsey Ambrose delivered a bases-clearing double to score three unearned runs and give her squad a 5-4 lead.

An Erin Duhon double in the top of the seventh sent the game to extra innings with the teams tied at 5-all, but the Tornados were sent down in order in the eighth. With two outs on the board in the bottom of the same inning, the Mountaineers got a walk-off single from Ambrose to win the game by a 6-5 decision.

Concordia's Kat Moreno fell to 4-4 after taking the loss. She gave up 10 hits and six runs, including three earned, in 7.1 innings of work. Schreiner's Rebecca Hay got the victory by going the distance and allowing nine hits, including five runs, while fanning two and issuing one walk.

Concordia and Schreiner will play another doubleheader tomorrow with the opener slated to start at 1 p.m.
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Concordia                                   000     310     10     5     9     1
Schreiner                                    000     104     01     6    11    2
     Concordia: Kat Moreno, Teshia Krause (8) and Alex Smith.
     Schreiner: Rebecca Hay and Kalya Avirett

Concordia (10-6, ASC 1-1)     220     000     1     5    10    1
Schreiner (3-5, ASC 1-1)         102     000     0     3     7     0
     Concordia: Teylor Schiefelbein and Alex Smith.
     Schreiner: Allyson Morris, Rebecca Hay (2) and Kalya Avirett.