Box Score LOS ANGELES - The Southern Utah softball team wrapped up play in Los Angeles Sunday with a 9-3 win over Harvard and an 8-0 loss to Loyola Marymount.
Game One: SUU 9, Harvard 3
The Thunderbirds used a five-run seventh inning and a complete game pitching performance from Samantha Guile to defeat the Harvard Crimson in the teams' second matchup of the weekend.
Southern Utah took an early 1-0 lead in the first inning as Kendall Kapitzke knocked in Madison Tuft on a sacrifice fly. However, the Crimson answered back with a three-run third inning to take a 3-1 lead.
That would be all of the runs that Harvard would score as Guile held them to just three hits over the final four innings of play.
The Thunderbirds took a 4-3 lead in the fifth inning on RBIs from Nicole Simonson and Kalei Watkins. They piled on the insurance runs with a huge five-run seventh inning. Watkins picked up another RBI in the inning and Sarah Murphy hit a bases loaded triple to make it 9-3.
Guile put down the final three Harvard batters in order to secure the win.
Simonson finished the game 3-4 with two runs scored and a RBI. Watkins, Taylei Williams, and Kaitlin Williams all had two hits in the win.
Game Two: SUU 0, LMU 8
After defeating Harvard, the Thunderbirds took on the host LMU Lions in a game that was rained out on Saturday. They were only able to pick up four hits as they were shut out by the Lions 8-0.
The Lions jumped out to a 4-0 lead by the third inning, scoring one run in the first and three in the third. Alicia Brown hit a walkoff grand slam in the bottom of the fifth inning, ending the game early.
Kalei Watkins went 2-2 in the game making her 4-6 on the day and 5-10 on the weekend.
The Thunderbirds will travel to Provo next Friday to take on the BYU Cougars in a doubleheader before opening Big Sky Conference play the following weekend.
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