DENVER, Colo. – Black Hills State softball dropped its final two games of the weekend at Metro State, 7-3 and 10-6.

The Yellow Jackets move to 2-14 on the season, both overall and in the RMAC.

Halie Litwin started game one, tossing five innings, allowing five runs on 10 hits with a strikeout and no walks.

Crystal Amaral started game two in the circle, working three innings and allowing four runs on five hits along with two strikeouts.

Baileigh Hubbard went 3-7 on the day with two doubles and a single while driving in three.

Gianna Haley finished 2-5 over both games, totaling two doubles, two RBI, two walks and a run scored.

Bell Luebken hit a two-run home run in game two, and finished the day going 2-5 with two RBI, three runs scored and a pair of walks.

Emily Marsden went 3-4 with two RBI in game two while Brittany Henricksen hit a double and scored a run.

Game One (L, 7-3)
The Yellow Jackets bats fell cold to start game one, being held hitless through four innings. Walks were to show for BHSU's only baserunners of the game until the team got on the board in the fifth.

Down 5-0 in the bottom of the fifth, Luebken reached on a walk and Shayla Tuschen reached on an error before back-to-back doubles from Hubbard and Haley cut the Metro State lead to 5-3.

After Litwin allowed one run each of the first five innings, Darian Gottfried entered in relief as the Roadrunners answered BHSU's big sixth inning with a two-run bottom half of their own to extend their lead to 7-3 which would hold the rest of the way.

Game Two (L, 10-6)
BHSU took advantage of a pair of errors to push a run across in the second, tying the game at 1-1 through the first two innings.

After Metro State scored three off Amaral in the third to make it 4-1, Luebken drilled a two-run home run out to left in the fifth, driving in Bri. Henricksen who doubled earlier in the inning, to make it a 4-3 game.

Following BHSU's two runs, the Roadrunners would answer as they scored five in the bottom of the fifth with the help of a grand slam, making it 9-3 moving into the sixth.

In the top of the sixth, back-to-back doubles from Hubbard and Haley made it 9-4, followed by an RBI single from Marsden to push the score to 9-5.

After MSUD got one back in the sixth, the Yellow Jackets loaded the bases in the seventh. Marsden drove one in with a single to left, but that would be all they would muster, falling 10-6.

Up Next
The Yellow Jackets return home on Tuesday with doubleheaders against Colorado Christian at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. on March 30, and 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. on March 31 to open their home schedule.