MISSOULA — The Montana softball group misplaced each video games of a doubleheader to Large Sky Convention chief Weber State on Saturday at Wildcat Subject in Ogden, Utah.
The Wildcats (30-8, 8-0 BSC) ran their profitable streak to eight video games with 6-5 and 10-5 victories over the Grizzlies (17-20, 5-6 BSC), who’ve dropped 4 of their final 5.
The beginning of the sequence was delayed when climate canceled Friday’s motion.
Led by Maygen McGrath, who had 4 hits and 5 RBIs, together with a pair of house runs, Montana put up 10 runs in two video games on the highway however could not sustain with Weber State’s consistency on the plate.
The Wildcats scored runs in eight of their 12 innings of at-bats and solely trailed twice, within the first and second innings of Recreation 2.
Montana fell behind within the opener 4-0 earlier than McGrath’s first house run of the day within the fourth and a Cami Sellers RBI single within the fifth made it 4-2.
Weber State added two runs within the sixth to go up 6-2, and they might show to be essential.
The Grizzlies scored three runs on 4 hits within the high of the seventh to drag inside one and had two runners on when the sport ended with a strikeout.
McGrath had a two-run single within the rally, Kylie Becker an RBI single.
Dana Butterfield (8-9) received the beginning and allowed simply 5 hits in 4 innings of labor, however she walked seven and had 4 wild pitches.
McGrath opened the scoring in Recreation 2 with a two-out house run to heart within the high of the primary. It was her twelfth of the season, leaving her two shy of matching Delene Colburn’s program report of 14.
Brooklyn Weisgram made it 2-1 within the high of the second with an RBI single to heart however that was Montana’s ultimate lead of the day.
Weber State scored three within the second, two within the fourth and 4 within the fifth to drag away.
Sellers had an RBI single, McGrath a sacrifice fly as Montana scored twice within the fifth. Sellers led off the highest of the seventh together with her sixth house run of the season for the sport’s ultimate run.
Allie Brock, who threw the ultimate two innings of the opener in reduction of Butterfield, received the beginning in Recreation 2 and took the loss to drop to 11th of September.
Sellers had three hits within the doubleheader and drove in three, Jaxie Klucewich additionally had three hits.
“It was a hard-fought sequence,” Weber coach Mary Kay Amicone stated. “Each groups actually received after it and swung the bats effectively. The circumstances are what they’re, we dwell in Utah within the spring. I am tremendous happy with how we battled every little thing and it was nice competitors.”
Montana will host Carroll on Tuesday at 3 p.m. at Grizzly Softball Subject, then resume Large Sky play with a sequence subsequent weekend at Sacramento State (22-18, 6-3 BSC).
—UM sports activities info