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Jessi Walker
11
Winner Pittsburg State PSU 36-16, 19-6 MIAA
5
Central Oklahoma UCO 35-16, 18-7 MIAA
Winner
Pittsburg State PSU
36-16, 19-6 MIAA
11
Final
5
Central Oklahoma UCO
35-16, 18-7 MIAA
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Pittsburg State PSU 0 1 2 0 4 2 2 11 12 1
Central Oklahoma UCO 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 5 6 3

W: Robertson,Emmie (20-8) L: Lancaster, Abbie (5-1)

5
Pittsburg State PSU 36-17, 19-7 MIAA
6
Winner Central Oklahoma UCO 36-16, 19-7 MIAA
Pittsburg State PSU
36-17, 19-7 MIAA
5
Final
6
Central Oklahoma UCO
36-16, 19-7 MIAA
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Pittsburg State PSU 0 3 0 0 2 0 0 5 8 3
Central Oklahoma UCO 0 0 4 2 0 0 X 6 7 1

W: Walker, Jessi (14-7) L: Robertson,Emmie (20-9)

Game Recap: Softball |

UCO Gains Doubleheader Split

EDMOND (April 23) – JoBi Heath belted a three-run home run that gave Central Oklahoma a lead it never relinquished and Jessi Walker retired the final seven batters as the Bronchos held on for a 6-5 second-game victory over Pittsburg State to gain a doubleheader split here Saturday afternoon.
 
The Gorillas scored eight unanswered runs in claiming an 11-5 victory in the first game to end a five-game UCO winning streak, but the Bronchos bounced back in the nightcap despite losing junior slugger Lexi Watson to injury.
 
UCO ended the regular season 36-16 overall and finished in a three-way tie for second in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association standings at 19-7 with PSU and Northwest Missouri.
 
The Bronchos are the No. 3 seed for the eight-team MIAA Tournament that runs Thursday-Saturday at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City and will meet sixth-seeded Central Missouri in one of four first-round games at 5 p.m.
 
"Jessi did a great job at the end of the second game and we came out with a good split," head coach Cody White said.  "Our team was pretty shook up after Lexi got hurt, but I was proud of the way they bounced back and got a win we had to have."
 
Watson, who leads the team in homers (14) and runs batted in (60), went down with a scary eye injury in the final inning of the first game after a foul ball caromed off her bat.  She was taken to a local hospital and her availability for the conference tourney is unknown.
 
UCO got off to a shaky start in the nightcap and the Gorillas capitalized in taking a 3-0 lead into the third.
 
Rachel Harper started that inning with a walk and moved to second on Morgan Heard's single.  Halley Randolph plated one run with a single to center field for UCO's first hit and Heath followed with her 11th homer, a high fly that barely cleared the fence down the left field line to make it 4-2.
 
The Bronchos made it 6-3 in the fourth when Ally Dziadula led off with a bunt single and scored on Harper's double down the line, with Harper going home later in the inning on Ashton Smith's sacrifice fly.
 
PSU scored twice in the fifth to pull within 6-5, but Walker got a force-out at third to get out of a jam in that inning and then put the Gorillas down in order in the sixth and seventh to finish off a complete game.
 
The junior right-hander gave up eight hits while walking two and striking out five in a 122-pitch outing to improve to 14-7.
 
Heard had three of UCO's seven hits.
 
The Bronchos trailed 3-1 in the opener before taking a 5-3 lead behind a four-run volley in the fourth, with Dziadula's three-run triple the big blow in that inning.
 
The lead didn't last long as PSU came back with four in the fifth before scoring twice in the sixth and seventh to pull away.
 
UCO managed just six hits, getting two from Tori Collet.
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