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9
Winner Texas A&M-Kingsville TAMUK 7-1
5
Fort Lewis College FLC 2-5
Winner
Texas A&M-Kingsville TAMUK
7-1
9
Final
5
Fort Lewis College FLC
2-5
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Texas A&M-Kingsville TAMUK 0 0 1 1 3 0 4 9 10 0
Fort Lewis College FLC 0 0 0 1 2 2 0 5 12 0

W: J. Rodriguez (3-0) L: Mann, Hailie (0-4)

0
Fort Lewis College FLC 2-7
8
Winner West Texas A&M WT 8-1
Fort Lewis College FLC
2-7
0
Final
8
West Texas A&M WT
8-1
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 R H E
Fort Lewis College FLC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
West Texas A&M WT 0 1 4 1 1 1 8 11 0

W: H. Vortherms (4-0) L: Shanks, Amiee (2-3)

Hannah Rutherford vs. Texas A&M-Kignsville - Feb. 9, 2024
Hayden Mangan, Fort Lewis Athletic Communications
Hannah Rutherford (26) notched her third career home run and the first for Fort Lewis this season with a two-run shot against Texas A&M-Kingsville.

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

Javelinas, No. 4 Buffaloes too much for Skyhawks in West Texas A&M Invitational finale

Fort Lewis enters conference play 2-7

CANYON, Texas – The Fort Lewis College softball team lost its final two games on Saturday at the West Texas A&M Invitational, falling 9-5 against Texas A&M-Kingsville in game one and 8-0 against fourth-ranked West Texas A&M in game two in six innings at Schaeffer Park 
 
The Skyhawks fall to 2-7 overall while the Javelinas move up to 5-1 and the top-ranked Buffaloes improve to 8-1.  
 
Amiee Shanks and Hailie Mann split duties in the circle this afternoon, registering their fifth and third complete games, respectively. The duo surrendered a combined 21 hits and 10 walks while striking out eight.
 
Senior centerfielder Hannah Rutherford was a bright spot for the Skyhawks at the plate this afternoon as the Roanoke, Texas, native went 3-4 against the Javelinas with four runs batted in and a run scored on a two-run home run – FLC's only long ball of the season thus far – and a two-run single.
 
Game One – Texas A&M-Kingsville 9, Fort Lewis 5
Fort Lewis arrived with hot bats on day two and prepared for a shoot-out with Texas A&M-Kingsville. Both sides combined for 22 hits in the contest with the Javelinas holding the edge, 12-10.
 
After TAMUK jumped out to a 2-0 lead with runs scored in the top of the third and fourth innings, Fort Lewis finally jumped on the board in the bottom half of the fourth thanks to a double from Catheryn Rodman that plated Kayla Stone. The Javelinas tacked on three more runs in the top of the fifth, but the Skyhawks answered with Rutherford's light-tower shot that cleared the left field wall.
 
Rutherford plated her second pair in the bottom of the sixth to force a 5-5 tie heading into the final inning. After plating a run on a wild pitch, Texas A&M-Kingsville's Seleste Compian raced to an inside-the-park home run on a shot to left centerfield to put the Javelinas in front with room to spare. Jordyn Rodriguez (3-0) earned the win after tossing just 1.2 innings of one-hit relief.
 
Game Two – No. 4 West Texas A&M 8, Fort Lewis 0
The Skyhawks struggled to match the same offensive out-put in game two, lining up opposite West Texas A&M's Heidi Vortherms (4-0), a 2023 Extra Elite Top-100 List pitcher from Sioux Falls, S.D.
 
Vortherms held Fort Lewis to a single hit, a double to the right-center gap by Stone in the top of the second inning. As for the lady Buffs, WTAMU scattered its 11 total hits across all six innings to plate a single run in the second, fourth, fifth, and sixth innings while also exploding for four runs on three hits and an error in the bottom of the third.
 
Vortherms earned her fourth win of the season on just 72 pitches to maintain a 0.36 earned run average on the season. In addition, the junior has given up just eight hits and three walks through 19.1 innings of work while striking out 32.
 
Fort Lewis' final match of the West Texas A&M Invitational against Eastern New Mexico (7-1), originally scheduled for tomorrow, Sunday, Feb. 11, was canceled early today out of concern for player safety due to blizzard conditions.  
 
Notables
-West Texas A&M and Texas A&M-Kingsville improved to 14-1 and 4-0 all-time against the Skyhawks, respectively.
-Fort Lewis enters its conference schedule with two wins, identical to the 2023 season.
-After the first two weeks, five Skyhawks are batting above a .300 average and FLC is one of two teams to bat above .300 as a team in the RMAC.
 
Race to the RMAC Tournament
Colorado Mesa (2-4) is next up on the docket for the Skyhawks as Fort Lewis looks to begin its march through its Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference schedule at home next Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 17-18. Doubleheaders are scheduled to start at noon on Saturday and 1:00 p.m. on Sunday.
 
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