Tartans Drop Two at Mary Hardin-Baylor

(Texas) – The Carnegie Mellon University softball team continued its road trip in Texas with a double header at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor on Thursday, March 6. The Crusaders won both games, dropping the Tartans 5-0 in the first game and 10-5 in the second. The Tartans are now 1-7 on the season while the Crusaders move to 10-2.

Game 1

• The Tartans had seven hits in the game and stranded a runner on base in each of the second through sixth innings.
• Graduate student Kiera Boucher and sophomore Maddy Beall each had two hits.

Game 2

• The home team scored four runs in the bottom of the first inning before the Tartans scored two in the top of the second.
• Senior Libby Eichberger doubled in the two runs, plating Beall and freshman Reagan Diamond.
• The Crusaders added two runs in the bottom of the second to take a 6-2 lead.
• CMU scored once in the fourth when Beall led off with a walk and scored from first on a double by Diamond. Eichberger recorded her second hit in the game to move Diamond to third but the two were stranded.
• The home team added runs in the fifth and sixth innings.
• The Tartans comeback ended in the seventh after they scored two runs on an RBI single by Beall and an RBI double by Diamond.

Up Next

The Tartans will play two games at Southwestern University on Friday, March 7 starting at 4:00 p.m. CT.