SPEARFISH, S.D. – Black Hills State softball battled in both games of its Sunday doubleheader with Chadron State, but fell 3-2 and 5-1.
The Yellow Jackets (5-31, 5-31 RMAC) had excellent pitching on the day from each Shayla Tuschen in game one, and Kailey Bond in game two.
Game One (L, 3-2)
Tuschen worked all seven innings in the circle, striking out five and allowing three runs on eight hits. At the plate, she finished 2-3 with a run scored.
Ashlynn Pauwels drove in both runs for BHSU, going 1-3 with two RBI and a run scored.
Also adding hits were Kayla Lee, going 2-3, and Tyler Whitlock and Sydney Barner, each with singles.
Tuschen was masterful in the circle, tossing three scoreless to open the game, scattering three strikeouts along the way.
CSC struck first in the fourth inning, with a solo home run to lead off the inning before another run came across to give the Eagles a 2-0 lead midway through the fourth.
But the Yellow Jackets would answer in the bottom half of the inning as Tuschen led off the inning with a single before Pauwels followed with a game-tying two-run home run, making it a 2-2 ballgame.
That score held until CSC went back on top with a solo shot in the sixth, giving them a 3-2 advantage before the Eagles eventually won by that score.
Game Two (L, 5-1)
Bond had her best game of the season in the circle, going all seven innings and allowing just two earned runs on six hits while striking out five.
Lily Simmons and Malia Ogee both turned in multi-hit games, each going 2-3, with Simmons scoring the lone run of the game.
Lee drove in BHSU’s only run of the game, going 1-4, while Whitlock, Tuschen and Pauwels also recorded hits.
The Eagles took a quick 2-0 lead in the first inning on a hit and an error, but Bond settled in for a clean second inning to keep it a 2-run game.
After CSC added two more in the third, BHSU used singles from Simmons, Ogee and Lee to drive in a run and make it 4-1.
That would be all the offense the Yellow Jackets would muster off of the Eagles’ Delaney Farnsworth, though, going on to fall 5-1.
Up Next
The Yellow Jackets head to CSU Pueblo next weekend for the team’s final road series of the season on Saturday at 12 p.m. and 2 p.m., and Sunday at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
