Oklahoma State was in trouble early in the first game. Cowgirl pitcher Anna Whiddon struck out her first batter, Rhea Taylor. Cowgirl second baseman Alysia Hamilton’s error placed Andee Allan on first. The next Lady Tiger batter, Marla Schweisberger, homered sending her and Allan home to score.

The Cowgirls answered the Lady Tiger call. Mariah Gearhart batted leadoff for the Cowgirls and she singled by a bunt. Katelyn Bright doubled to have runners on first and third. Alysia Hamilton was walked to fill the first base hole. Sam Heinlein struck out to make the first out. Megan Castle hit a single that sent Gearhart home and put the Cowgirls on the board. Julie Ward hit into a fielder’s choice that yield no results for the Cowgirls. Lady Tiger pitcher Stacy Delaney stuck out the next Cowgirl batter to end the inning with Missouri on top, 2-1. Three Cowgirls were left on base.

Missouri continued to play the power game in the second. After Gina Schneider reached first by a single, Lindsey Ubrun hit one over the fence for the only two scores for the Missouri Lady Tigers in the second. The Cowgirls again answered the Lady Tigers, but not in a power fashion. Chelsea Garcia, Kelsey Anchors and Gearhart loaded the bases. Bright’s hit resulted in a double play taking out Garcia and left first base empty. With runners on second and third, Hamilton singled and the Lady Tiger’s catcher, Megan Christopher, error let Anchors and Gearhart score. Pitcher Delaney ended the inning with a strikeout and left the Lady Tigers on top by one, 4-3.

Whiddon and Delaney took charge in third and fourth innings. No player was allowed past first. In the fifth Whiddon was replaced by Sara Odom after she allowed Schweisberger to double. The Lady Tigers would go on to score one run in the fifth when Odom walked Ubrun with the bases loaded and Schweisberger scored the last run of the game. The Cowgirls were shut out in the fifth and the rest of the game. At the end of the seventh inning the scoreboard read 5-3, Lady Tigers.

The next game did not go as well as the first game for the Cowgirls. Missouri started the game off with Taylor and Schweisberger scoring. The Lady Tigers had only one hit, but he Cowgirls committed two errors and pitcher Anna Whiddon walked two Lady Tigers. The Cowgirl offense was making good contact with the ball, but Kristin Nottelman of the Lady Tiger pitching staff and the Lady Tiger defense only allowed Bright to double. The inning ended with the Lady Tigers leading 2-0.

The second and third innings saw one Lady Tiger hit and two Cowgirl hits, but no runs for either team. Odom took over pitching in the fourth for the Cowgirls. Megan Christopher and Abby Vock were allowed on the base paths by a walk and hit by pitch respectively. The two runners advanced when Taylor grounded out to first. Schneider then doubled sending the two Lady Tigers home. Odom allowed no more hits in the inning and the Cowgirls were up to bat. Nottelman stubbornly got he Cowgirls to pop fly or foul out in the forth, giving Missouri a strong lead of 4-0.

In the fifth the Lady Tigers were stiffed by Odom’s pitching and the Cowgirl offense made solid contact on Nottelman. Anchors doubled with one out and Gearhart singled sending Anchors home. But Nottelman and the Lady Tiger defense regained control and allowed no more hits in the inning. Missouri was sitting with a comfortable 4-1 lead going to bat in the sixth.

Both team traded outs in the sixth sending the game to the final inning. The Lady Tigers added two runs after the Cowgirl’s new pitcher, Alex Villalobos, walked Jaydee Young and Christopher sent her home with a home run over the left field wall. The Cowgirls had no more offensive production left in the seventh as Nottelman pitched in the inning and the entire game. The Cowgirls errors and mistakes made the final score 6-1 in favor of the No. 11 Missouri Tigers. The Cowgirls will look to improve on their 4-6 Big 12 record when they face the Oklahoma Sooners in Norman on April 15.

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