#MustangsWin! Softball Ends Regular Season With Sweep of UHSP!

Erik Holth, CBC Sports Information Director

            Conway, Ark. – Looking to end the regular season on a high note, and head into American Midwest Conference postseason play on a four-game winning streak, Central Baptist College softball hosted the Eutectics of the University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis this afternoon at City of Colleges Park. CBC (24-18, 12-6 AMC) got the job done, winning both ends of the doubleheader by scores of 9-7 and 10-2 over UHSP (13-17, 7-11 AMC).

            The Mustangs pounded out 19 hits in the doubleheader including 10 extra base hits. Averie Ayers threw another complete game in game two, earning her 10^th win of the season.

GAME ONE – CBC 9, UHSP 7

            CBC jumped on UHSP early in game one, putting up five runs in the bottom of the first to lead 5-0 after one. An RBI single by Averie Ayers plated the first run of the game and that was followed by a wild pitch to make it 2-0. A sac fly from Tobi Finley followed and then Lauren Anderson blasted a two-run homer to make it 5-0, her second home run of the season. A Madi Spears RBI single made it 6-0 in the second before UHSP made it 6-5 in the third and chased started Hannah Work out of the game. Caroline Byers would hit a sac fly in the bottom of the third to make it 7-5 and the Eutectics would tie the score in the sixth at seven apiece. In the bottom of the sixth, After two outs and a pair of walks, Ayers tripled to plate the go ahead runs and make it 9-7 before Ysabella Esquivel, who relieved Work, got around a leadoff hit in the seventh to close the door. Esquivel improved to 4-0 on the season, throwing 4.2 innings and allowing two runs on seven hits with a pair of walks and a pair of Ks.

GAME TWO – CBC 10, UHSP 2 (FIVE INNINGS)

            The Mustangs would jump out to a big lead again in game two, plating four in the first courtesy of a single by Ayers, a sac fly from Kirstie Blackwood, a double from Savannah Sanford and a single from Tobi Finley, who would finish a double short of the cycle. A home run by UHSP cut the Mustang lead to 4-2 in the second before the offense would stretch the lead back out in the third with an RBI triple from Finley, an RBI groundout from Madi Spears and the second home run of the day from Anderson to make it 7-2. CBC would run-rule UHSP in the fifth on a two-run homer by Finley, giving her four RBIs in the game, and a game-ending double by Anderson to complete the sweep.

UP NEXT

            CBC awaits to find out their seed in the upcoming American Midwest Conference tournament from May 3-7 at the Antimi Softball Complex in Columbia, Mo. CBC will have to wait until Tuesday to find out whether they will be the #2 seed for the third consecutive tournament, or the #3 seed for the first time since 2018.