'Roo Softball Falls in Extra Innings

HOUSTON, Texas - The Austin College softball team dropped a heartbreaker in extra innings on Thursday as they opened up a three-game Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference series at the University of St. Thomas, as the Celts got the walk-off 6-5 win in 11 innings.

Austin College got on the scoreboard first when Tori Fowler scored on an error in the top of the first to make it 1-0, and two more runs came home in the fourth to make it 3-0 in favor of the 'Roos. Alexus Johnson drove in the first run of the inning, and Emily Autrey brought another run home on a sacrifice fly.

The Celts cut it to a 3-2 game with a pair of runs in the bottom half of the inning, and they'd tie things up with a run in the bottom of the seventh to force the extra frame. After two scoreless additional frames, Kassidy Bradshaw came home on a double steal in the 10th, but St. Thomas equalized in the bottom of the inning to knot things up at 4-4. Johnson singled home a run in the top of the 11th to put Austin College back on top 5-4, but the Celts drew a walk with the bases loaded in the 11th, and a wild pitch brought home the game-winner for UST. 

Johnson took the loss, giving up six runs, four earned, on nine hits in 10.1 innings, while Victoria Sossaman got the win after going the distance in the circle for UST. Fowler and Johnson both went 3-for-5 to lead Austin College offensively.