Tuesday\u00a0College Softball<\/p>\n
Tucson Invitational\u00a0Game 1<\/p>\n
Embry- Riddle (Ariz.)\u00a0 7,\u00a0 Jamestown 3<\/p>\n
Game 2<\/p>\n
Texas Wesleyan University 10 Jamestown 3<\/p>\n
TUCSON, Ariz.\u00a0 (uj.edu<\/a>)\u00a0 —\u00a0<\/strong>The University of Jamestown softball team managed just six runs in a pair of losses Tuesday, falling 7-3 to Embry-Riddle (Ariz.) and 10-3 to Texas Wesleyan University at the Tucson Invitational Games.<\/p>\n Jamestown led Embry-Riddle 2-1 heading into the bottom of the sixth on RBI singles by Santina Zito<\/a> (SO\/Boise, Idaho) and Mikayla Frost<\/a> (SR\/Melba, Idaho).<\/p>\n Embry-Riddle scored six times in the bottom half for a 7-2 lead.<\/p>\n Zito’s double in the top of the seventh scored Kassi Ward<\/a> (JR\/Olympia, Wash.) to make it 7-3. Zito finished the game 2-for-4 at the plate.<\/p>\n Ward, Mariah Martinez<\/a> (SO\/Visalia, Calif.), Katie Reisdorfer<\/a> (JR\/Fresno, Calif.), Morgan Geiszler<\/a> (JR\/Horace, N.D.), and Mariah Wick<\/a> (JR\/Jamestown, N.D.) also had hits for the Jimmies.<\/p>\n Another six-run inning doomed UJ in their 10-3 loss to Texas Wesleyan.<\/p>\n Trailing 4-0 in the bottom of the fourth, Geiszler singled home the Jimmie’s first run, then Lauren Diemert<\/a> (FR\/West Fargo, N.D.) reached on an error, allowing Zito to score to make it 4-2.<\/p>\n The score stayed 4-2 until the top of the sixth when the Rams erupted for six runs to make it 10-2.<\/p>\n