Arkadelphia, Ark. – The Texas A&M-Kingsville Javelina softball team dropped one extra inning game and another one-run game in falling to Texas Woman’s University and Henderson State in the Henderson State Softball Classic.
The Javelinas lost 5-2 to TWU in eight innings and 7-6 to Henderson State in the nightcap.
The Javelinas are now 7-6 on the season.
Julia Canales went 5-for-6, Cassie Anderson 4-for-8 with a home run and four RBI and Shaun Bryan 3-for-7 with a home run and three RBI.
In game one the score was tied at 1-1 heading into the eighth when the Pioneers exploded for four runs.
The Javelinas rallied in the bottom of the inning on a run-scoring single by Cassie Anderson, but that’s all they could muster.
Courtney Rigamonti (Victoria St. Joseph’s) took the loss despite allowing only four earned runs while striking out six and walking only one, shutting out the Pioneers from the second through seventh innings.
The Javelinas first run came in second when Julia Canales (H.M. King) doubled and Jasmine Ross singled to drive her in and tie the score at 1-1.
A&M-Kingsville had a runner thrown out at home in the first, stranded a runner at third with not outs in the fourth and another at third with two outs in the sixth.
In game two the Javelinas rallied for three runs in the bottom of the seventh, but fell one run short.
Henderson State scored seven runs on six hits off of starter Jessika Cantu (Tuloso-Midway) through 3.1 innings, but Rigamonti came on to throw 3.2 innings of no run relief.
The Javelina offense responded with a run-scoring single by Shaun Bryan in the first, a two-run home run by Bryan in the third and then the rally in the bottom of the seventh.
Ma-Lia Guerra (Falfurrias) and Janay Gonzalez (Alice) singled and with one out Cassie Anderson hit her first career home run, a three-run blast to cut the lead to one, but that’s where the rally ended.
