Softball | 2/8/2020 10:27:00 PM

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PORTLAND, Texas – The Oklahoma Panhandle State University softball team dropped its final two games at the SCS/NAIA Invitational. The Aggies (3-7) fell to Jarvis Christian College, 8-0, and to No. 23-ranked University of Houston-Victoria, 4-3.
 
Panhandle mustered just three hits in the morning game versus JCC. Kinzie Jones went 2-for-3 with a double. Teammate Jaylinn Reyes was 1-for-3, with her team's only other hit.
 
Jarvis got to Aggie starter Kaylor Battiest for five earned run in her 3.0 innings. Battiest had four strikeouts, but issued an uncharacteristic five walks. She permitted just three hits.
 
Rebecca Ortiz threw the final 1.1 innings, allowing four hits and three earned runs.
 
Against the nationally-ranked UHV team, Panhandle State lost in walk-off fashion, after leading through their first six at-bats. OPSU jumped ahead, 2-0, in the top of the first, after a bases-loaded walk to Camryn Pryor and an RBI single off the bat of Reyes.
 
JCC got a run back in their half of the second to make it 2-1. In the bottom of the fourth, Aggie centerfielder Chrislyn Dovers used her arm to keep her team ahead, throwing a perfect strike to catcher Haley Neal to cut down a Jaguars' runner trying to score for the third out.
 
Then in the top of the sixth, Pryor stroked a leadoff single, was sacrificed to second and scored on Brissa Rivera's double to right that made it 3-1.
 
OPSU pitcher Sarah Conley was cruising along through her first 5.0 innings of work, scattering three hits. But in the sixth, UHV parlayed a pair of singles, a walk and a catcher's interference into two runs to knot matters at 3-3.
 
The Aggies were retired in the top of the seventh. Battiest was called on to take the circle for Panhandle in the bottom half of the frame. But the OPSU senior had a walk, single and walk to her first three batters, before getting a force at home for the first out. However, a sacrifice fly would allow the Jaguars to plate the winning run, 4-3.
 
Rivera finished the afternoon game with a 2-for-3 performance and the RBI. She as the only Aggie with multiple hits.
 
Pryor and Reyes both went 1-for-2 with an RBI.