SE Softball Completes Sweep with 5-4 Win in Finale

PIEDMONT, Okla. – Ananda Garrison's two-run double in the top of the seventh staked Southeastern to a two-run lead and the Savage Storm would hold on in the bottom half to complete the series sweep with a 5-4 win over Northwestern Oklahoma State on Friday afternoon in Piedmont, Okla.
 
The win not only completes the series weep but extends the SE winning streak to five games, making the team's record 21-14 overall on the season and 13-7 in Great American Conference play.
 
Reese Taylor would finish the game with three hits to lead the offense, while Sage Harlow and Garrison each added a pair of hits.
 
Gracie Ore, Iliana Olivares, Kasey Simmons, and Bailey Beard each turned in a hit.
 
Garrison and Taylor each drove in two runs, while Harlow added one RBI.
 
Emily Simmons logged her seventh complete game of the season and picked up her team-best seventh win of the year after allowing four runs on seven hits with three strikeouts over seven innings.
 
The Rangers would hit the scoreboard first with a two-run homer in the bottom of the second inning.
 
A Harlow RBI single in the third and a Taylor RBI single in the fifth would knot the score at 2-2 midway through five innings.
 
NWOSU would bring home a run on a sac fly in the sixth inning to take a 3-2 lead into the final inning.
 
Olivares would lead off the inning with a pinch-hit single, followed by a Harlow single, before Kady Fryrear was hit by a pitch to load the bases for Taylor who singled in the game-tying run.
 
Two batters later it was Garrison who doubled home two more runs to push the lead to 5-3.
 
The Rangers would threaten in the bottom half, scoring once on a two-out RBI single but the Storm would end the game with the tying run on second to preserve the 5-4 win.