SILVER CITY, N.M. – The Black Hills State University softball team dropped the first game of Saturday to Adams State University, 6-5, but then came back to snag their third win of the season over Western New Mexico University as senior, Brooke Grant, pitched her way to the 14-13 victory. 

The Yellow Jackets are now 3-34 overall and 2-26 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. 

GAME 1 

The Jackets took an early lead in their opening game versus ASU when C Erica Everson hit a sacrifice fly that allowed CF Brooke Grant to score to make it 1-0.  

In the third inning, Grant again scored on a wild pitch before SS Ryan Cook hit an RBI double to centerfield to give the Jackets a 3-1 lead heading into the bottom half of the inning. 

After scoring one run in the second, ASU came back in the bottom half of the third inning to score three runs to take a one run lead.  In the fifth, Cook came through yet again with a two RBI single to allow the Jackets to retake the lead, 5-4.  ASU added one run in the sixth to tie the game, and SS Krista Bedford managed to hit an RBI double in the seventh inning to give her team the walk off victory. 

Kelsey Sellars and Michelle Leyba combined in the pitching effort for ASU as Stephanie Witman was charged for the loss for the Yellow Jackets after going 6.1 innings and allowing five earned runs. 

GAME 2 

In the second game of the day, the Yellow Jackets second baseman Katie Campo led the way for the Jackets with a game-high five RBIs after going 4-for-4 in the game.  Campo's day was highlighted in the fourth inning when she hit a three-run homerun to help the Jackets get within two runs of WNMU. 

WNMU took an early commanding lead in the second inning as they scored seven runs which was then followed by three more runs in the third.  After the five-run fourth inning by the Jackets, WNMU kept the 11-9 lead. 

In the sixth inning, the Yellow Jackets picked up their 20th hit of the game on a Campo RBI single that scored 1B Rebecca Green on way to a five-run inning.  WNMU did score two runs in the sixth before BHSU outfielder turned pitcher, Brooke Grant, held onto the victory in the circle. 

Grant pitched in her first appearance of the season for the Jackets while going five innings and giving up just two earned runs on six hits.  Amber Taynton was charged with the loss for WNMU as one of four pitchers in the game for her team. 

Sunday the Jackets will again face both ASU and WNMU in their last games of the season beginning at 10 a.m. 

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