Jacks fall in doubleheader Saturday

Saturday, April 22

Brookings, S.D.

12 p.m.

South Dakota State University

17-29, 4-7

Omaha (Alumni Appreciation Day /Cubby's Feed The Fans Day)

12-26, 3-5

Omaha

South Dakota State

Photo by: Jason Salzman

4/22/2017 4:45:00 PM | Softball

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The long ball was working Saturday, but it wasn't enough as the Jackrabbit softball program dropped both games of a doubleheader with Omaha. South Dakota State fell in game one, 11-1, in five innings and lost the finale, 10-4.

SDSU is now 17-30 on the year and 4-8 in Summit League play.

Mallory McQuistan, Christian McKone and Lyndsey Crist blasted home runs for the Jackrabbit offense, but the home squad couldn't slow a Maverick team that combined for 30 hits between the two contests.

Ashlyn Bender (0-11) dropped the first game, going 2.2 inning with seven runs allowed (four earned) on eight hits. She struck out two before Katie Lang entered and threw the final 2.1 innings, giving up four runs (three earned) on seven hits.

Down 4-0 after the top of the second, McQuistan put the Jacks on the board with a blast that cleared the scoreboard in left, but that was it for the SDSU offense the rest of the game as Omaha tacked on seven more over the next three innings to end things early.

Madison Hope (0-6) earned the start in the second game and went three frames, giving up six runs (all earned) on nine hits. Bender tossed four innings in relief and allowed four runs on six hits.

Omaha started the finale with a leadoff home run and added another run in the second before McKone launched her first career home run in two-run fashion. McQuistan started the inning with a walk, and with two outs on the board McKone took an 0-2 pitch on a line over the left center wall to tie things, 2-all.

The Mavericks answered with four in the top of the third, and though State threatened with runners in the next four innings, the Jacks didn't break through again until the seventh. Down 10-2 at that point, Crist cut it to seven with a solo shot to right to start the final half inning.

From there, two quick outs followed before Ali Herdliska singled through the left side, McQuistan walked and Paige Gerdes doubled off the left center fence to plate Herdliska. The Mavs got a ground out in the next at-bat, however, to secure the sweep.

Up Next
South Dakota State hosts North Dakota Tuesday in a non-conference doubleheader at 2 p.m.