OKLAHOMA CITY – Fort Hays State saw its 2016 season come to an end on Thursday with a pair of losses at the MIAA softball tournament at the ASA Hall of Fame Complex. The Tigers lost 10-0 in five innings to Northwest Missouri State in the first round then fell 1-0 to Central Missouri.

Game Highlights

 

The Bearcats scored two unearned runs in the first inning then added a pair of three run home runs from Jessica Rawie to blow the game open. FHSU was held to two hits, a Paxton Duran double and Rilee Krier single.

Duran took the loss in the circle with eight earned runs on 10 hits.

Duran bounced back in the second game, holding Central Missouri scoreless for six innings but the Jennies broke through with the games only run on a seeing-eye single up the middle by Ali Jo Rogers to plate a runner from second in the seventh inning. Fort Hays State had a pair of singles in the bottom of the seventh, but could not find a way to get a run across to extend the game.

Duran scattered 10 hits and struck out three stranding 10 baserunners, is of them in scoring position. She ends teh season at 15-19 overall and became the second Fort Hays State player to reach 200 strikeouts in a season with 202. Duran threw the second most innings in a single season at FHSU, coming up just 2/3 innings shy of the record held by Kayla Rupa.

Fort Hays State finished the season at 21-30 overall.