The Softball team were on the road to Kansas to compete against the McPherson College Bulldogs, the Tabor College Bluejays and the Bethel College Threshers.
The Tigers first double header game was against the McPherson Bulldogs where they walked away with two wins which helped their season tremendously.
Starting off in the first game, pitching the first two innings of the game was sophomore Abbi Arroyo who faced ten batters. While she was pitching she allowed one strike out, two hits, and two walks. Throwing in the next three innings was sophomore Alexis Hubbard where she allowed three hits and three strikeouts. She also faced fourteen hitters and gained her first win. And throwing for one inning was senior Sarah Shevenell where she faced seven batters, allowing two walks, a strikeout, and two hits.
Scoring the runs for the Tigers was sophomore Isabella Beauchamp who had two his and a run batted in (RBI). Scoring the other two runs was junior Anna Prauner where she had a 2-for-2 along with a walk. Which ended the first game with a score of 2-0.
Into the second game, McPherson scored a run within the first inning after the Tigers had an error. In the second inning senior Payton Cooley scored a run which tied up the game. In the fifth inning is when the Tigers were starting to lead the game. Cooley started the fifth inning with a single, and stole second. Then she scored on a double that was hit by Shevenell to bring the score to 2-2. Following Cooley scoring, freshman Jeryn Allen hit an RBI double to make the score 3-2.
In the seventh inning junior Marisa Marquez doubled to plate freshman Katelyn Hays to score, and Pauner had an RBI double that brought both runners home, ending the game with a score of 5-2.
Going into their game on Feb. 23 against the Tabor Bluejays, the Tigers walked away with first a loss of 8-6 but then avenged their loss with a 9-2 win.
The Tigers final games of the week were against the Bethel Threshers. In the first inning, senior Jadyn Hunt and Marquez both had RBI’s, making the score 2-0. The Threshers posted a run in the second, cutting into Doane’s lead and making the score 2-1.
In the third inning the Threshers managed to take the lead with five runs while the Tigers were only able to get two making the score 4-6. However, the Threshers wouldn’t be having the lead for long when the Tigers had five runs in the fifth inning, two runs in the sixth inning, and one run in the seventh inning.
In total the Tigers had a grand total of 13 hits in this game. These hits came off the bats of junior Grace Dowding, Allen, Cooley, Hunt and junior Rylee Sands, who all had two apiece. Hunt, Marquez, and sophomore Emma Sorensen all drove in two runs in this game. The Tigers walked away with a win having a score of 9-6 in the first game against the Threshers.
In their second game against the Threshers, both teams were able to get one run within the first inning. At the beginning of the fifth inning Cooley was to hit a three-run home run, which gave the Tigers the lead of 4-1. However, at the end of the fifth inning the Threshers were able to catch the lead with a score of 5-4. In the sixth inning Allen tied up the game with an RBI-triple and broke the tie with Hays batting an RBI-single that brought Allen home.