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Game One Box Score / Game Two Box Score
 
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Ursuline College softball team ran into a red-hot Trevecca Nazarene University squad on Saturday (March 22) and the Arrows were on the wrong end of 6-2 and 5-1 games.

The Arrows have dropped five straight and are now 8-11 overall and 0-4 in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference. TNU, winners in six consecutive games, is now 17-5 overall and a perfect four-for-four in G-MAC games.

Ursuline is idle from competition until next Saturday (March 29) when a visit to Cedarville University is on the schedule. That doubleheader will start at 1:00 p.m. and will be covered with free live stats.
 
Game One: Trevecca Nazarene 6, Ursuline 2
Neither team pushed a run across in the first three innings and TNU opened the scoring with a pair of runs off UC senior pitcher Sarah Maxwell in the fourth. She surrendered two more runs in the fifth before giving way to freshman Dagmar Smith who also let in one run in the fifth to make it a 5-0 game.

UC cut into the deficit in the top of the sixth when junior Sam Roberts singled to center and eventually scored. With the Arrows down to their final out in the top of the seventh, sophomore Danielle Almodiel singled and came home on a base knock by classmate Jayla Garner to make it a four-run game but that was as close as Ursuline got.

Maxwell was dealt the loss after allowing four earned runs in her four innings of work. Smith was charged with a pair of runs in her two frames but it didn't matter much as TNU starter Haley Fagan went the distance and allowed two runs, only one of which was earned, while scattering seven hits.
 
Game Two: Trevecca Nazarene 5, Ursuline 1
Ursuline took a 1-0 lead in the fourth after sophomore Jayla Garner led off with a single and moved up a station on a base hit through the left side by junior Natalie Huggins. Garner later scored on a double to left center from freshman Brittany Humbel to put the visitors ahead.

The Trojans tied the game on a Kaitlin Crumpler homer in the fifth but UC sophomore starting pitcher Rachel Jalowiec should have been out of the inning before an error gave the home team an extra life. Two unearned runs scored in the home half of the fifth to make it 3-1 in favor of Trevecca Nazarene.

For good measure, the Trojans scored two runs in the sixth off freshman pitcher Dagmar Smith to decide the final outcome.

Jalowiec limited the damage after allowing seven hits and walking two in her four and two-thirds innings of work. Of the three runs scored under Jalowiec's watch, only Crumpler's homer was charged to her. Smith was in the circle for the final four outs and she surrendered two runs.

TNU's Lindsey Stephens pitched all seven innings and allowed five hits and walked just one batter.