Box Score BATON ROUGE, La. - The Southern Utah softball team wrapped up play in the Purple & Gold Challenge Sunday morning with a 4-1 loss to Louisiana Tech.
Both teams were held scoreless for the first two innings, until the Bulldogs scored two unearned runs in the top of the third inning.
The Thunderbirds answered with one run of their own in the bottom of the inning. Kendall Kapitzke doubled with one out in the inning and Kaitlin Williams brought her home with an RBI single up the middle to make it 2-1.
The Bulldogs extended their lead in the sixth inning with two more runs on four hits and an error.
Southern Utah would not be able to score in the sixth or seventh innings, losing by a score of 4-1.
Kapitzke finished the game 2-3 with a double and a run scored.
The Thunderbirds will return to action next Sunday in a doubleheader against Utah Valley at Dixie State's Karl Brooks Field.
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