GAME ONE BOX SCORE | GAME TWO BOX SCORE

MARYVILLE, Missouri - The Emporia State Hornets scored a pair of five-inning victories over the Northwest Missouri State University softball team on Friday.

Emporia State took the opener, 11-3. The Hornets then completed the two-game sweep with a 10-0 triumph.

GAME ONE
The Bearcats committed five errors and the Lions took advantage and scored 11 runs (four unearned) in a five-inning contest.

Emporia State fed off two errors in the third for a four-run inning and then added three more runs off two more errors in the fourth.

Trailing 7-0, the Bearcat offense woke up with a pair of blasts. Karli Allen led off the fourth with a home run to center. After a Kiana Baderdeen walk, Sydne Brashear crushed a home run to right-center to cut the Horrnet lead to 7-3.

However the Hornets tacked on four more runs in the fifth and the Bearcats added another error in the frame.

Regan Thompson took the loss (5-11) as she pitched 3 2/3 and gave up seven hits and seven runs (three earned).

GAME TWO
The Bearcats cleaned up the defensive miscues but could only muster seven hits and did not scratch across a run in a 10-0 defeat in five innings.

Emporia State scored two in the first, four in the second, three in the third and a single run in the fourth.

Rachel Smith suffered the loss (4-10) as she went 1 2/3 and gave up seven hits, six runs (all earned). Logan Wenzel pitched the final 3 1/3 innings and gave up five hits, four runs (all earned) with a walk and a strikeout.

NOTES: Emporia State had 11 stolen bases in the doubleheader ... Allen hit her ninth home run of the season ... Brashear hit her fifth homer on the year ... Olivia Daugherty cracked her 10th double on the season.