KWU Sports Information
Kansas Wesleyan Softball dropped both ends of a doubleheader to the Doane University Tigers on Sunday afternoon at Salina South High School. The Tigers won the opener 6-3, and the second game 5-0.
In the opener, Doane scored in the first inning, but it was the only run of the game until the fourth when Doane scored four.
Wesleyan scored its first run in the sixth. Josie Buhr (JR/Buffalo, N.D.) hit a ball down the right field line that got away from Doane's right fielder, allowing Buhr to complete the inside the park home run.
The Coyotes tried to rally in the bottom of the seventh. Halee Sweat (JR/Hilo, Hawaii) started things with a pinch hit single, followed by a hit by Tiffani Alaniz (FR/Sebastian, Texas). Kyndyll Garrison (JR/Fresno, Calif.) sacrificed the runners over and Emma Schumacher (SO/Winfield, Kan.) drove in two with a single to right center. Unfortunately the Coyotes couldn't complete the comeback.
Buhr had three of KWU's nine hits in the game. Alaniz and Mia Hernandez (SO/Hanford, Calif.) had two hits each.
Jewell Henry (SR/Kingston, Okla.) pitched three and a third innings, allowing five runs on nine hits. Danika Utajara (JR/Lovington, N.M.) allowed one run on one hit closing out the game.
In the second game, Doane again jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the top of the first.
Doane added two in the third, but great defense from the Coyotes as Schumacher threw out a runner at home kept more runs off the board for the Tigers.
Doane added another in the fifth.
In the sixth the Coyotes had a chance to score a run, as Hernandez and Jocelyn Alcala (JR/Fullerton, Calif.) singled, and then moved up on a wild pitch but could not push a run across.
Five different players had a hit for the Coyotes. Starter Miranda Fogal (JR/Monticello, Ill.) went three innings, allowing three runs on four hits. Natalie Zamora (SO/Houston, Texas) went four innings, allowing two runs on six hits.
The Coyotes are back in action on Tuesday, heading to Cottey College for a doubleheader in Nevada, Mo. KWU then returns home for five games over the weekend, with doubleheaders against Dakota Wesleyan on Friday and Grand View on Saturday, and a single game against Grand View on Sunday.