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Abbie Lancaster
4
Fort Hays State FHSU 13-19, 7-8 MIAA
5
Winner Central Oklahoma UCO 23-10, 8-3 MIAA
Fort Hays State FHSU
13-19, 7-8 MIAA
4
Final
5
Central Oklahoma UCO
23-10, 8-3 MIAA
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Fort Hays State FHSU 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 11 1
Central Oklahoma UCO 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 5 9 2

W: Lancaster, Abbie (1-0) L: Duran,Paxton (8-12)

0
Fort Hays State FHSU 13-20, 7-9 MIAA
8
Winner Central Oklahoma UCO 24-10, 9-3 MIAA
Fort Hays State FHSU
13-20, 7-9 MIAA
0
Final
8
Central Oklahoma UCO
24-10, 9-3 MIAA
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 R H E
Fort Hays State FHSU 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
Central Oklahoma UCO 1 3 0 1 1 2 8 14 1

W: Walker, Jessi (10-5) L: Clarke,Carrie (4-8)

Game Recap: Softball |

Bronchos Take Two From FHSU

EDMOND (March 26) – Two stellar pitching performances and Ally Dziadula's dramatic game-winning hit vaulted Central Oklahoma to a pair of wins over Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association rival Fort Hays State here Saturday afternoon.
 
Little-used Abbie Lancaster had a clutch six-inning relief outing in a 5-4 first-game victory that ended on Dziadula's run-scoring double in the bottom of the ninth inning and Jessi Walker threw a complete-game four-hit shutout in an 8-0 run-rule romp in the nightcap as the Bronchos swept their second straight league doubleheader.
 
UCO improved to 24-10 on the season and 9-3 in the league in running its home winning streak to 11 straight.
 
"Abbie stepped up for us today and Ally came through with a big hit in a game we struggled in most of the way," head coach Cody White said.  "I thought we came out in the second game and did a lot of good things with our offense and the way Jessi pitched."
 
The Bronchos won the opener in exciting fashion when Rachel Harper led off the ninth with a single up the middle and moved to second on Morgan Heard's sacrifice bunt before scoring the game-winning run on Dziadula's double off the right-center field wall that gave UCO its third straight one-run victory.
 
Lancaster had thrown just three innings in two previous appearances this season before taking over for starter Nicole Brady after a lead-off hit in the fourth and was masterful the rest of the way in picking up her first career win.
 
The hard-throwing freshman right-hander retired 13 straight batters during one stretch – including four by strikeout – and gave up just two hits while fanning seven in six shutout innings.
 
FHSU broke on top 3-0 in the top of the first inning, but the Bronchos came back to tie it with a three-spot of their own in the third.  Carli Jones had a sacrifice fly to get UCO on the scoreboard and Lexi Watson followed with a two-run home run, smashing the first pitch she saw over the left-center field wall.
 
The Tigers went ahead 4-3 with a run in the top of the fourth and Tori Collet answered that in the bottom of that frame with a lead-off homer to left field.
 
Neither team had a good scoring chance again until the eighth when the Bronchos put runners at second and third with one out, but FHSU ended that threat with a strikeout and fly out to set the stage for Dziadula's ninth-inning heroics.
 
There was no such drama in the second game as UCO broke on top early and Walker didn't give up a hit until the fourth en route to her fifth shutout of the season.
 
JoBi Heath gave the Bronchos a 1-0 in the first with an RBI double and it became a 4-0 advantage in the second behind Heard's two-run double and Dziadula's run-scoring groundout.
 
Dziadula added an RBI single in the fourth and Carli Woolsey a pinch-hit run-scoring single in the fifth to make it 6-0 before UCO ended the game on the eight-run rule with in the sixth on RBI hits by Heath and Ashton Smith.
 
Halley Randolph went 3-for-3 at the plate to lead a 14-hit attack, with Heard, Heath, Smith and Tori Collet adding two hits each.
 
Walker gave up just four hits while walking three and striking out three in a 130-pitch outing, improving to 10-5 on the season.
 
The Bronchos return to conference action Friday when they host intrastate rival Northeastern State for a  2 p.m. twinbill.
 
 
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