COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Black Hills State softball dropped its pair of doubleheaders over the weekend to UC Colorado Springs, falling to 2-6 on the season.

The Yellow Jackets lost their games on Saturday, March 6, 6-1 and 10-3, and fell on Sunday, March 7, 13-4 and 8-3.

Saturday (L, 6-1; L, 10-3)
On Saturday, Crystal Amaral threw game one, allowing six runs on five hits and striking out five over six innings of work. On the day, she also went 1-5 at the plate with a home run and a walk.

Breanne Henricksen tossed game two, going 5.2 innings while striking out five and walking one.

Emily Marsden went 2-6 over the two games, driving in one while Baileigh Hubbard hit a home run to go 1-6.

Shayla Tuschen and Lizzy Johnson each went 2-5.

In game one, UCCS went ahead 1-0 in the first before Hubbard ripped a solo home run in the top of the second to even the score at 1-1. But the Mountain Lions responded with five more runs over the next two innings to take a 6-1 lead that would hold the rest of the game.

BHSU got on the board first in game two with an Amaral solo shot and a Marsden RBI single in the top of the second to go ahead 2-0. UCCS tied things up at 2-all in their half of the second, before a Hailey Franklin RBI double in the fourth put the Yellow Jackets back ahead 3-2. The Mountain Lions tacked on eight more runs the rest of the way for the 10-3 win.

Sunday (L, 13-4; L, 8-3)
Sunday's game one saw three different Yellow Jacket pitchers, including one inning from Halie Litwin, two from Tuschen and one from Darian Gottfried who struck out one and allowed only one hit.

Amaral threw game two, going six innings, striking out three and walking two.

Tuschen went 2-5 at the plate on Sunday, driving in three to go along with two walks and a run scored.

Bell Luebken went 4-7 with a run scored and Hubbard scored twice, going 2-6.

UCCS struck first in game one, taking an early 3-0 lead. BHSU got one back in the second with a Halie Litwin sacrifice fly and scored again in the third on a three-run home run by Tuschen. Unfortunately, the Mountain Lion offense kept rallying to take the game 13-4.

In game two, the Yellow Jackets were held scoreless until breaking out for a three-run sixth inning. Marsden drove in one before an RBI Bryce Henricksen single and a Johnson groundout scored two more. But that was all BHSU would score as they fell to UCCS 8-3.

Up Next
The Yellow Jackets will head to Alamosa, Colo. next weekend for another pair of doubleheaders against Adams State on Saturday, March 13 and Sunday, March 14.