WICHITA, Kan. - The Wichita State softball team split a pair of games with Bradley on Senior Day Saturday afternoon at Wilkins Stadium. After dropping the first game, 9-2, the Shockers stormed back to take game two, 8-2.

Game One

Following a pregame ceremony to honor Wichita State seniors Holly Eckert, Hilary Fort, and Brittney Osborn the Shockers fell behind 2-0 through the first three innings. With the Shockers struggling to get their offense going against Bradley starter Madeline Lynch-Crumrine, their short-game defense was put to the test early and often. Bradley manufactured five runs in the fourth inning largely due to their ability to move runners with bunts and singles. The Braves pushed five runs across the board in the inning to take a commanding 7-0 lead.

Back-to-back RBI singles by Melanie Jaegers and Brianne Bond gave the Shockers life in the bottom of the inning but the momentum was curtailed in the top of the fifth inning when the Braves answered back with two runs of their own. The final two innings went scoreless to give Bradley the game one victory.

Game Two

Following their humbling defeat in game one the Shockers flipped the script in the second game of Saturday's doubleheader, jumping out to their own 7-0 lead through four innings.

Wichita State got on the scoreboard in the third inning on Sydney Stuever's fourth home run of the season to take a 2-0 lead.

The Shockers then got RBI's from Layne Greenlee, Rachel Milnark, Danika Miller (2), and Stuever to push the Shocker lead to 7-0.

Bradley responded with a pair of runs in the top of the fifth inning but the Shockers were able to negate any further charge to get the win.

Stuever added another RBI single in the sixth inning to close out the game a triple shy of the cycle going 3-for-3 with 4 RBI's. Two more Wichita State hitters finished the game with multiple hits. Milnark also went 3-for-3 with a triple and Brianne Bond finished the game 2-for-2.

Wichita State got a quality start from Sloan Anderson in the circle as the sophomore gave up no earned runs and only six hits in her 13^th complete game of the season.

The series is scheduled to conclude Sunday at Wilkins Stadium at noon.

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