Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 CASTLE ROCK, Colo. – Black Hills State softball split its doubleheader for the second day in a row, winning game one against NMHU and dropping game two.

The Yellow Jackets (2-2, 2-2 RMAC) had a strong showing offensively, totaling a combined 12 runs on 24 hits over the two games.

Shayla Tuschen finished the day going 4-7 with 3 RBI and a run scored with a three-run home run and a double.

Crystal Amaral also drove in three runs, going 3-5 with a run scored and a home run. She was also on the rubber for game one, going seven innings and allowing four runs on seven hits while striking out two.

Bell Luebken went 5-8 and scored three runs, while McKayla Perry finished 5-8, going a perfect 4-4 in game two with a pair of doubles.

Game One (W, 6-4)
NMHU was first on the board, scoring one in the second and another in the third to take a 2-0 lead.

In the bottom of the third, Brittany Henricksen scored on a double steal after Luebken drew a throw to second, and two batters later, Baileigh Hubbard drove in Luebken with a double to tie the game at 2-2 through three innings of play.

The Yellow Jackets would tack on another run in the fourth with a Bri. Henricksen double before the Cowgirls went back ahead 4-3 in the fifth.

But that lead wouldn't last long as BHSU quickly put some runners on in the bottom of the fifth before Emily Marsden drove in a pair to jump back on top 5-4. She would later score herself on an error, putting the score at 6-4 where it would stay the rest of the game.

Game Two (L, 7-6)
The Yellow Jackets struck first in game two with a pair of early runs in the first, but the Cowgirls would erase the lead in the top of the first to make it a 2-2 ballgame.

NMHU plated two more the next inning, but in the bottom of the third, Tuschen slugged a three-run shot out to left-center to give BHSU a 5-4 lead.

In the fourth, the Yellow Jackets went up 6-4, but the Cowgirls would get back a run in the fifth, and push two more across in the sixth to take a 7-6 lead. BHSU put Amaral back in to pitch the final frame, slowing the NMHU offense, but the Yellow Jackets couldn't answer in the bottom of the seventh as they fell 7-6.

Up Next
The Yellow Jackets travel to UC Colorado Springs next weekend for doubleheaders on Saturday, March 6 with first pitch scheduled for 12 p.m. and 2 p.m., and Sunday, March 7 at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.