Box Score - Game One
Box Score - Game Two

VICTORIA, TX: The Texas Wesleyan University softball team (21-27) closed out the regular season with a pair of losses at the University of Houston-Victoria Tournament on Saturday. The Rams suffered a 10-1 loss against NCAA Division I Texas Southern University (26-26) before dropping a nine-inning thriller 4-2 to Houston-Victoria (33-14).

 

Against Texas Southern, an RBI single from Courtney Orebaugh put the Lady Rams within a run at 2-1 in the second inning, but the Tigers plated eight runs in the next three innings to run away with the 10-1 win.

 

Ashley Tarrant (10-12) suffered the loss after allowing 10 runs, five earned, on 10 hits in 4.1 innings. Christina Kelley notched two of Texas Wesleyan’s four hits, going 2-for-2 with a run scored.

 

Against UHV, Ashley Hudson and Dawn Villegas matched each other pitch for pitch through seven innings.

 

Hudson retired each of the first eight hitters she faced and did not allow a hit through three innings. Through seven she had allowed six base runners on two hits and four walks without allowing a run.

 

Meanwhile, Villegas struck out seven and allowed seven base runners on three hits and four walks without allowing a run through seven.

 

The scoreless game moved into extra innings, and Victoria, batting as the visiting team, used a TWU error and two RBI singles to take a 2-0 lead.

 

The Lady Rams answered immediately, starting the bottom of the eighth with back-to-back doubles from Raven Moreno and Tara Martinez. Haley Butler later singled home Martinez with the tying run.

 

Another Texas Wesleyan error proved to be costly in the ninth, opening the door to two more runs in the ninth.  Emily Bergstrom (18-4), who had come on in relief after Moreno’s double in the eighth, worked around a base-hit from Skyler Gentry in a scoreless bottom of the ninth.

 

Hudson (4-6) took the tough luck loss after allowing four runs, only one earned, on seven hits while striking out three in 8.2 innings.

 

Martinez went 3-for-3 in the loss, while Moreno was 2-for-4 at the plate.

 

The Rams will return to action in next weekend’s RRAC Tournament which will be held April 29-30 at Oran Good Park in Farmer’s Branch, TX.