GOODWELL, Okla. – The Oklahoma Panhandle State University softball team notched its first Sooner Athletic Conference wins of the season, sweeping a doubleheader from Southwestern Christian University at Aggie Field. The Aggies (4-10, 2-4 SAC) topped the Eagles by scores of 16-8 and 5-4.
 
In game one – shortened to five innings by the run rule – OPSU banged out 20 total hits. Alyssa Ramirez had the big day at the plate, going 4-for-4 with a run scored. She drove in five runs and had a double.
 
Catcher Kaitlyn Lord and infielder Jaylinn Reyes both went 3-for-4. Reyes had a double, home run and was credited with three runs scored. She also had three runs batted in.
 
Four other Aggies – Camryn Pryor, Brissa Rivera, Kinzie Jones and Caitley Adams – all had multi-hit games, each collecting two hits versus the Eagles. Adams scored four times and drove in a run, smacking a double, as well.
 
Sarah Conley went 3.0 innings, scattering six hits and permitting one earned run. She struck out four and did not walk a batter.
 
Rebecca Ortiz tossed the final two frames. Ortiz did not walk a batter and registered a pair of "K's".
 
In game two, it proved a tight battle until the very end. Lord's walk-off single drove home Kayli Grove in the bottom of the seventh with the game winner.
 
Lord was the only Aggie with multiple hits, going 2-for-4 in game two. She scored 0once and drove in two.
 
Adams and Grove each laced doubles in OPSU's five hit attack.
 
Conley also picked up the victory in game two, as Panhandle State's third pitcher of the game. Kenley Yocom started and struck out seven Eagles in 3.2 innings. She was followed by Jordyn Sanford, who went 2.1 frames, before Conley's scoreless seventh.
 
"Any time we can sweep a team - either two games or four- it is a good day," OPSU Head Coach Marc Benjamin said. "We are still game rusty and as we play more games we should cut down on the errors.  A huge show of heart getting out of bases loaded no outs in the seventh and then coming up with a two out hit to win the game."