SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Drury split with #20 McKendree on Saturday with an
AJ Agers walk-off in the eighth inning.
GAME ONE, 3-2 Drury (8 inn.)
Game one started with
Sophia Luetticke setting the new longest-hitting streak in Drury Softball history on a first-pitch bunt to have her reach base via base hits in 18 streak games. She would later score in the first inning after a
Taylor Hartsell triple.
Both offenses went quiet until the fifth inning when the Bearcats scored two after a double and single. Drury responded to the two runs with one of their own to knot it at two a piece with an RBI from Luetticke that scored
AJ Agers on a safety squeeze bunt.
The game would enter the eighth tied at two. McKendree would get their lead-off hitter on but leave her stranded at second. Three days after
Landry Cochran won the game for Drury against #8 Augustana she would get the Panthers their first base runner of the inning after a double to right center. She would advance to third on a wild pitch. With two outs,
AJ Agers would battle with the league's leading strikeout pitcher, Sami Huck, and fight one off into right field to score Cochran and walk it off, 3-2.
The walk-off win was Drury's third of the season. Agers went 3-4 in the game. She started the game in the circle and went 4.1 innings before
Jordyn Foley entered and picked up the win after only allowing three hits and striking out four.
GAME TWO, 11-2 McKendree (5 inn.)
The game one loss was the Bearcats' third straight, their bats woke up for the first time in five days scoring five in the first inning chasing
Kaley Adzick out of the circle in just five batters and one out.
McKendree would score in every inning of the game, two in the second and third, and one in the fourth and fifth.
Drury would add two runs in the fourth and show their only life of game two.
Sophia Luetticke hit a double over the left fielder's head to score Adzick and extend her hit streak to 19 games.
Brooklyn LaChappa would eventually ground out in the inning but was able to score Luetticke.
The run rule was put into effect with McKendree leading by more than eight after five innings.
Taylor Hartsell was the only Panther to have multiple hits including a triple. Adzick was given the loss,
Avery Budde and
Natalie Wilks both pitched later in the game giving up a combined six runs and only striking one out.
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