SOUTHAVEN, Miss.,
– Arkansas Tech torched the Lions for a
season-high 15 hits and held the UNA batters
in check during a 5-0 win in the opening
round of the Gulf South Conference
Tournament Friday morning in Southaven,
Miss. With the loss, the Lions (26-20) fall
to the losers’ bracket and will face Delta
State Saturday morning in an elimination
game at 9:30 a.m.
In the
first-round game, ATU got single runs in the
bottom of the first and fifth innings and
added a three-run fourth. Golden Suns’
pitcher Dana Aldrich (15-4) held UNA to five
hits with 10 strikeouts while throwing 6.2
scoreless innings.
Maggie Eades
was the only UNA player to record two hits
on the day. She went 2-for-3 with a pair of
singles. Megan Niesel fell to 15-9 after
taking the loss on the mound. She
surrendered four runs off 10 hits in four
innings for the Lions. Freshman Anna Ard
pitched the final two innings, yielding one
run off five hits.
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