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15
Winner Texas A&M-Kingsville TAMUK 5-1
7
Fort Lewis College FLC 2-4
Winner
Texas A&M-Kingsville TAMUK
5-1
15
Final
7
Fort Lewis College FLC
2-4
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 R H E
Texas A&M-Kingsville TAMUK 5 2 4 0 3 1 15 19 0
Fort Lewis College FLC 0 0 4 1 2 0 7 11 2

W: J. Rodriguez (2-0) L: Mann, Hailie (0-3)

2
Fort Lewis College FLC 2-5
3
Winner Eastern N.M. ENMU 6-1
Fort Lewis College FLC
2-5
2
Final
3
Eastern N.M. ENMU
6-1
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Fort Lewis College FLC 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 6 3
Eastern N.M. ENMU 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 3 9 0

W: E. Southerla (3-0) L: Shanks, Amiee (2-1)

Ashley Burriel vs. Texas A&M-Kingsville - Feb. 9, 2024
Hayden Mangan, Fort Lewis Athletic Communications
Ashley Burriel (6) guided the Skyhawks with a 4-6 day at the plate while scoring two runs.

Game Recap: Softball | | Hayden Mangan, Assistant Director of Athletic Communications

Fort Lewis drops opening games of West Texas A&M Invitational

Skyhawks combine for 17 hits

CANYON, Texas – Despite putting up 17 hits across the day, the Fort Lewis softball team was unable to keep pace with its hot-handed foes, dropping both games on day one of the West Texas A&M Invitational 15-7 and 3-2 to Texas A&M-Kingsville and Eastern New Mexico, respectively.
 
The Skyhawks fall to 2-5 on the year while Texas A&M-Kingsville moves to 5-1 and Eastern New Mexico advances to 6-1.
 
Junior Amiee Shanks was a workhorse on day one as the Tucson, Ariz., native toed the rubber for 11 of Fort Lewis' 13 innings across the day. Shanks surrendered 11 runs, seven of which were earned, on a combined 20 hits while fanning four. Ashley Burriel was the Skyhawks' lead bat through both games as the third-baseman capped off the night 4-6 with two runs and a walk.
 
Game One – Texas A&M-Kingsville 15, Fort Lewis 7
Although a brisk morning in Canyon, that didn't stop the bats from heating up as both sides combined for 30 in the contest, 19 of which rifled off the bats of the Javelinas who totaled 14 runs batted in while stranding just five runners on base. Fort Lewis managed to push across seven runs while leaving an identical seven runners on base.
 
Carissa De Los Santos (1-0) and Jordyn Rodriguez (2-0) split time in the circle with 3.0 innings each on De Los Santos' second start of the year and Rodriguez's second win of the year. Lindsey Evans was untouchable at the plate for the Javelinas, recording a perfect 3-3 outing with two runs scored and four RBIs recorded thanks to a pair of solo and three-run home runs. Cara Daugherty had a 3-3 effort for FLC alongside Burriel who finished 3-4 with a run scored.
 
TAMUK registered five runs in the first inning, two runs in the second, and four more runs in the top of the third to build a commanding 11-0 lead before the Skyhawks got on the board. Fort Lewis mustered up four runs in the bottom of the third on an Emalynn Redmann walk, back-to-back singles from Burriel and Alex Tenorio, and a bases-clearing triple from Kayla Stone. Stone later scored on a Catheryn Rodman sacrifice fly to center field. The Skyhawks went on to score a single run in the fourth frame and two more in the fifth while Texas A&M-Kingsville added three runs in the fifth and a single in the sixth to force the run rule.  
 
Game Two – Eastern New Mexico 3, Fort Lewis 2
After suffering a run-rule defeat last weekend at the South Central Softball Tournament, the Skyhawks flipped the script and fought through what was an outstanding dual between two arms.
 
Both pitchers went the distance in the final game of the night that nearly eclipsed midnight from a well-lit Schaeffer Park. Shanks allowed nine hits on the night and not a single earned run on 94 pitches while ENMU's Emma Southerland, who improved her record to 3-0, allowed two earned runs on six hits and two walks across 132 pitches.  

The Greyhounds' Alondra Vasquez, Taighen Whitzel, and Chanler Groves each recorded two hits in the contest including a run batted in for both Whitzel and Groves. Kayla Stone was the only Skyhawk to notch two hits in the game including a double in the top of the third inning that scored both of Fort Lewis' only runs of the night.
 
Notables
-Fort Lewis is now 0-3 all-time against Texas A&M-Kingsville and 4-11 all-time against Eastern New Mexico.
-The Skyhawks' 11 hits against TAMUK match the program's season-high and third-best performance in the last two seasons.
-Amiee Shanks' 11.0 total innings matches her career-high in a single day set last season against CSU Pueblo on Mar. 12. (7.0 and 4.0 inning outings).    
 
Three Left
All in all, Fort Lewis has three games left to play at the West Texas A&M Invitational. Tomorrow, Saturday, Feb. 10, the Skyhawks will take on Texas A&M-Kingsville for the second time in as many days while also facing off against West Texas A&M (5-1) for the second time this year. Start times are scheduled for 12:30 p.m. Mountain Standard Time against the Javelinas and 7:15 p.m. against the fourth-ranked Buffaloes at Schaeffer Park.
 
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