GEORGETOWN, Texas - The Pirates' softball team continued their rough streak by dropping a pair of game to ASC opponent Mary Hardin-Baylor. SU fell in game one 5-2 and then again in game two 4-1.

Game 1: SU 2, UMHB 5

Southwestern was first on the board in the bottom of the first inning when Haley Hughes singled to right field to bring senior Katelyn Gola around from second base.

In the bottom of the second the Pirates threatened again and loaded the bases when Taylor Blair had a perfectly executed bunt single to bring up Amanda Ambrose with no outs. Ambrose flew out to shallow left, but Blair Wallace followed with a slow roller to second base that allowed pinch runner Abigail O’Connor to score, pushing the Pirate lead to two, 2-0.

The Crusaders started to string things together as they loaded the bases with no outs in the top of the fourth. Greeson’s infield grounder was misplayed which allowed UMHB to score two to tie the game. A long foul fly ball by Courtney Johnston was caught by Wallace and was deep enough to allow another UMHB run across the plate giving the Crusaders the 3-2 lead in the fourth.

Southwestern seemed poised to score after Hughes reached second on a pop fly collision in right field and Pavlicek’s sacrifice bunt moved her to third with one out. Aly Pulver’s grounder to second base was fielded cleanly and thrown home to get Hughes for the second out of the inning and end SU’s threat to tie.

UMHB pushed two more across in the top of the seventh, pushing their lead to three and Southwestern was unable to score in the bottom of the inning to lose game one 5-2.

Abby Schumacher was 2-2 after stepping in at second base. Lyndsy Maus had a strong day of relief in the middle innings, pitching three innings and allowing just one hit and one run despite receiving the loss.

Game 2: SU 1, UMHB 4

In game two Southwestern and UMHB were deadlocked through four innings until UMHB snagged the lead by posting four runs in the top of the fifth on an error, double and back to back homeruns over the leftfield fence.

The Pirates put one run up on the scoreboard in the bottom of the sixth on a two out double by Aly Pulver to bring SU within three, 4-1 with one inning to play.

After retiring the side in the top of the inning SU loaded the bases with two outs but Hughes’ shot was right at the center fielder to end the game.

Three Pirates, Pavlicek, Pulver and Blair had multi-hit games with each going 2-3 from the plate in game two.

Southwestern now sits at 4-4 on the year and remain at home on Tuesday to play host to Texas Lutheran for a double header beginning at 1:00 pm.