BARTLESVILLE, Okla. – The Dallas Christian College softball team competed at Oklahoma Wesleyan University in its first games in school history. The Crusaders were defeated in game one, 14-3, and game two, 8-0.
Oklahoma Wesleyan is an NAIA member and part of the KCAC. The Eagles are coming off a 31-17 season and were selected fourth in the KCAC preseason poll.
GAME 1 RECAP: Oklahoma Wesleyan (14), Dallas Christian (3) (F/5)
The Crusaders were able to stabilize after an 8-run first inning and compete with OKWU the final four innings, being outscored 6-3.
DCC broke through with its first-ever run on an RBI double by
Maya Williamson that scored
Jordyn Billodeaux. Billodeaux did great as the leadoff hitter in the lineup with a 2-for-3 game and had an RBI of her own.
Leighianne Dale recorded the team's other hit.
Zyian Bender would add the team's other RBI and her first of her career. Williamson and
Mikenzie Miller counted as the team's other runs, with both coming in the last inning.
Trinity Johnson was the DCC starter making the program's debut and tossed three innings. She had seven ground outs and only walked one.
Hannah Mattingley threw one frame.
OKWU was able to put together 14 hits, which included five doubles and a pair of home runs. Ryleigh Clinton and Sofia Cardenas combined for nine RBI. Tahlor Stefek went the complete five innings and had a pitching line of 4 hits, 3 runs, 3 ER, 2 BB, and 3 K.
GAME 2 RECAP: Oklahoma Wesleyan (8), Dallas Christian (0) (F/6)
The second contest was very competitive through four innings, as the Crusaders allowed a run in the second and fourth. A four-run fifth separated the teams and two more in the sixth would complete the run-rule.
Summer Hasfurter started and went 4.1 innings. She threw 66 pitches and went as long as she could keeping DCC right there until a big fifth inning. Before her final line, the Leander, Texas, native had allowed three hits and two runs through four innings. Two of those knocks were extra base hits and led to a run for the opposition. Bailey Zornes homered in the second inning and Payton Langley tripled in the fourth. Hasfurter was able to keep the score a one-run game in the third inning by working around a leadoff error. The runner would be left on third after the same player that made the error would atone for it with a nice catch.
The Crusaders offense was only able to generate three hits. Williamson doubled for the second time on the day in the second inning. Bender also had her second hit in the doubleheader, while Aniyah Dixon registered her first collegiate hit in the sixth.
DCC had its home opener with Cisco College cancelled due to poor weather this weekend. The teams are slated to play on February 9 at Cisco.
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