DURANGO, Colo. – Black Hills State softball dropped their Saturday doubleheader to Fort Lewis by the scores of 6-3 and 9-1.

The Yellow Jackets (4-22, 4-22 RMAC) put together 12 hits across both games, including three extra-base hits.

Game One (L, 6-3)
Kayle Lee went 3-4 in game one, scoring all three runs and stealing three bases.

Tyler Whitlock finished 2-4 with an RBI while Ashlynn Pauwels drove in two, going 1-4 with an RBI double.

A Pauwels RBI double opened the scoring to put the Yellow Jackets up 1-0 in the top of the first. BHSU added one more in the third, after a pair of singles led to runners on second and third before a Pauwels RBI groundout plated Lee to make it a 2-0 Yellow Jacket lead.

After allowing a leadoff single, Shayla Tuschen breezed through her first three innings of work in the circle on only 36 pitches, sending down the next eight straight while striking out three.

Tuschen ended up retiring as many as 11 in a row before a FLC solo home run in the fifth cut the Yellow Jacket lead in half, 2-1.

BHSU added an insurance run in the top of the seventh with a Whitlock RBI single to score Lee for the third time of the game, giving the Yellow Jackets a 3-1 lead entering the bottom of the seventh.

A two-run, three-hit inning from the Skyhawks in the bottom half of the frame, though, evened things up at 3 apiece to send the game into extra innings before FLC walked it off in the eighth to win 6-3.

Game Two (L, 9-1)
Pauwels continued her hot hitting into game two, going 2-3 with another RBI double.

Whitlock added another hit on the day and a run scored, while Gianna Haley also recorded a hit.

Fort Lewis got on the board first, scoring one in the first and three in the second to take an early 4-0 lead through two.

The Yellow Jackets got one back in the third with a leadoff triple from Whitlock who scored one batter later on a Pauwels double to make it 4-1 in the middle of the third.

That would be all that BHSU would put together offensively, though, eventually falling 9-1.

Up Next
The Yellow Jackets continue the road trip with two more games against Fort Lewis on Sunday, April 2 at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.