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Mo Selman
Mo Selman
10
Winner Central Oklahoma UCO 45-9
1
Missouri Western MWSU 37-17
Winner
Central Oklahoma UCO
45-9
10
Final
1
Missouri Western MWSU
37-17
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Central Oklahoma UCO 0 0 3 2 0 0 5 10 16 0
Missouri Western MWSU 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 1

W: Chestnut, Jayden (20-3) L: Hilzer,Kenzie (17-8)

Game Recap: Softball |

UCO Rolls Over Griffons In League Tourney

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (April 27) – Carli Jones, Morgan Heard and Mo Selman all smacked home runs to power an offensive assault that carried Central Oklahoma to a 10-1 shellacking of Missouri Western Thursday night at ASA Hall of Fame Complex in the second round of the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association Post-season Tournament.
 
The No. 21-ranked Bronchos outhit the Griffons 16-3, with UCO's Jayden Chestnut losing her shutout bid with two outs in the seventh inning.
 
The Bronchos -- who blanked Emporia State 3-0 in the first round -- ended a seven-game losing streak to MWSU in moving to 45-9 on the season with their sixth straight win.  UCO, which won the regular season league title to earn the tournament's No. 1 seed, will take on sixth-seeded Northwest Missouri at 3 p.m. Friday in the winner's bracket finals.
 
"We played really well today," head coach Cody White said.  "Our pitching and defense was great in both games and offensively we did a lot of good things. There's still a long ways to go in the tournament and we just have to take it one game at a time."
 
Two elimination games will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, with another at 12:30 before UCO and NWMSU meet.  The loser of the UCO-NWMSU contest will play again at 5:30 p.m.  Saturday's finals are set for 11 a.m., with an "if necessary" game at 1:30 p.m.
 
Jones belted the first of UCO's long balls in the third inning to make it 3-0. Carrie Abrams got the first hit of the game for the Bronchos with a one-out infield single and Tori Collet had a two-out single to left-center before Jones roped a line-drive shot just over the right field fence for her eighth homer of the season.
 
Selman and Heard both went deep in the fourth to up the lead to 5-0.  Selman led off with a full-count moon shot to left field for her third homer of the year, while Heard's 13th bomb of the spring sailed far over the fence in left-center.
 
The Bronchos really broke the game open in the seventh, pushing across five runs on six hits to make it 10-0.  Brooke Zukerman's two-run bloop single was the big blow, with Abrams and Lexi Watson both adding RBI singles.
 
MWSU's only hit in the first six innings was a lead-off double, but Watson made a diving catch on a popped up bunt attempt from her third base spot for the first out before Chestnut recorded back-to-back strikeouts.
 
The Griffons avoided the shutout with a pair of two-out seeing-eye hits in the bottom of the seventh.

Abrams had three hits to pace the offense, while Heard, Collet, Jones, Zukerman and Selman had two apiece.
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