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The Tiger softball team opened the conference portion of their schedule on Saturday afternoon (March 10) with a pair of wins over Washburn. FHSU had to come from behind in both games, winning by scores of 6-5 and 5-2. The Tigers are now 14-6 (2-0 MIAA) on the year.
 
Fort Hays State 6, Washburn 5
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The Tigers found themselves down 5-0 after the top of the fourth inning, but battled back with three runs in both the fourth and fifth innings to get the 6-5 victory.
 
Maddie Holub and Adriana Wortley got back-to-back singles with two outs in the fourth inning and both would come around to score on a double of the fence by Amanda Vaupel. Chelsey Rottinghaus came up next and legged out an infield single and advanced to second on a bad throw by the Lady Blue shortstop, which also allowed Vaupel to score.
 
The offense put together another strong inning in the fifth, led off by a single from Christine Moses. Madison Putman then reached base by an error to give the Tigers two base runners with no outs in the inning. After the next two batters were retired, Holub came back around and hit her fifth home run of the season to give FHSU the 6-5 lead.
 
Holub would take care of everything else from the pitching circle, where she struck out 15 Washburn batters and allowed just five hits and one earned run. Holub picked up the win, improving her record to 8-4 on the year.
 
Fort Hays State 5, Washburn 2
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Fort Hays State again had to come from behind in the second game, getting down 2-0 after allowing Washburn one run in both the first and second innings.
 
FHSU had chances of their own early on, stranding base runners in three of the first four innings before breaking through in the fifth. The Tigers were aided by a Washburn error that allowed Holub to reach, but FHSU also got three hits in the inning and scored five runs to go up 5-2. The main damage was when Putman hit a two-RBI single, which scored Breanna Beckerman and Rottinghaus.
 
Kaitlyn Shattleroe pitched the first five innings and picked up the win, improving to 6-1 on the year. She allowed nine hits but just two earned runs. Holub came in to pitch the final two innings and picked up her second save of the year.
 
The Tigers play at home again next weekend, facing Central Missouri on Friday (March 16) afternoon at 3:00 pm.