LIBERAL, Kan. – The Seward County Community College softball team were in tight games against Pratt County Community College, earning a split at home, winning with a walk off in the opener, 5-4, and dropping the nightcap, 10-8, Wednesday at French Family Field.
The Lady Saints are 5-13 in the Jayhawk Conference and 11-21 overall. Seward travels to Fort Hays Northwest Tech on Friday.
GAME ONE
Seward had to rally in the bottom of the seventh inning and came away with a walk-off victory.
The Lady Saints gave up the lead in the top of seventh inning when the Beavers scored twice to take a 4-3 advantage.
Then it was Seward’s turn. The comeback started with a one-out walk to Taryn Golden. Alyssa Morgan came up next and doubled. An error on the play allowed Golden to score and the game was tied at 4-4. Jolee Limon followed and won it with an RBI single, scoring Morgan to walk it off for the Lady Saints.
Pratt and Seward traded runs in the second and fourth innings. Pratt took a 1-0 lead in the second inning and Seward tied it on a Danica Kowalk homer in the fourth.
The Lady Saints took a 3-1 advantage in the fifth inning on a run-scoring double by Limon and an RBI-single by Kowalik.
Pratt scored a run in the sixth inning and took the lead in the seventh before Seward mounted its rally.
Limon and Kowalik each went 2-for-3 with two RBI and one run scored.
Kynleigh Kirby picked up the complete-game win, allowing four runs, two earned, on six hits, striking out four and walking three over six innings.
GAME TWO
Seward battled back and forth with Pratt only to come up short in the end in the second game.
The Beavers jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning and the Lady Saints answered back with two runs in the bottom of the inning.
Seward’s three-run, second inning gave them a 5-3 margin on a Hailey Michalik run-scoring double and two-run triple by Taryn Golden. Pratt tied it in the next inning with two runs.
The Lady Saints went ahead in the fourth inning at 6-5, but the Beavers knotted it up again with a run in the sixth and took the lead with four runs in the seventh.
Seward tried to rally in the bottom of the inning, scoring two runs, coming up short for the 10-8 loss.
