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10
Winner Oakwood (AL) OAKWOOD 0-0
0
Rust (MS) RUST (MS 0-0
Winner
Oakwood (AL) OAKWOOD
0-0
10
Final
0
Rust (MS) RUST (MS
0-0
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 R H E
Oakwood (AL) OAKWOOD 4 4 0 2 0 10 8 0
Rust (MS) RUST (MS 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1

7
Oakwood University Lady Ambassadors Oakwood University Lady Ambassadors 0
8
Winner Rust College Rust College 0
Oakwood University Lady Ambassadors Oakwood University Lady Ambassadors
0
7
Final
8
Rust College Rust College
0
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Oakwood University Lady Ambassadors Oakwood University Lady Ambassadors 0 0 0 0 6 0 1 7 8 0
Rust College Rust College 3 2 0 0 0 0 3 8 8 2

W: Leona Joshua (1-3) L: Hallman, Ashlyn (0-3)

OU SOFTBALL

Game Recap: Softball |

MORROW, MANCONE AND ARNETT POWER OAKWOOD TO FIRST WIN OF THE SEASON

HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss. – Oakwood University hit four home runs Thursday, including three in the opener, as the Ambassadors picked up their first win of the season after splitting a doubleheader with Rust College.
 
Oakwood improved to 1-9 with the win, while Rust College is now 1-7.
 
Game 1
 
Jana Morrow hit two home runs, including a grand slam in the second inning, and Taylor Mancone hit a three-run shot in the first inning to power the Ambassadors to a dominating 10-0 victory.
 
Mancone's three-run homer staked Oakwood to an early 4-0 lead.
 
Morrow's grand slam in the second inning made it 8-0 and she added a two-run shot in the fourth to make it 10-0.
 
Sydney Arnett dominated at the plate and in the circle.
 
She was 2-for-3 and scored a run, while tossing a one-hit shutout to pick up her first win of the season. Arnett allowed no runs on one hit in five innings. She stuck out nine and didn't walk a batter.
 
Roniya Campbell broke up Arnett's no-hitter with a one-out double in the fifth inning, but Arnett retired to the next two batters to end the game.
 
Morrow was 2-for-3 with two home runs, scored two runs and had six RBI. Mancone was 2-for-3 with a homer, scored a run and had three RBI.
 
Kaley Fuller was 1-for-2, including a double, and scored two runs, while Taytum Lowe had a hit. Katie Johnson scored two runs, while Anna Jones and Alexis Copeland scored a run each.
 
Game 2
 
Down 5-0, Oakwood erupted for six runs in the fifth inning and added another one in the seventh to take a 7-5 lead, but Rust hit a pair of homers in the seventh, including a two-out, walk-off in the bottom of the inning to give the Bearcats the win.
 
Morrow was 4-for-4 with a triple, an RBI and scored two runs. Copeland went 1-for-4 with a homer, two RBI and scored a run, while Fuller, Mancone and Jones also had one hit apiece.
 
Ashlyn Hallman (0-3) took the loss. She allowed three runs, all earned, on six hits in five innings. She struck out six and didn't walk a batter.
 
Oakwood hosts Talladega College Monday at noon.

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