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

W: Shanks, Amiee (2-1) L: E. Boyer (2-1)

Amiee Shanks vs. CSU Pueblo - Mar. 11-12, 2023
Brandy Sanderson
Amiee Shanks (36) is now 2-1 through three complete games this season.

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

Shanks goes the distance as Skyhawks down No. 4 Buffs for first time in program history

Fort Lewis downs ranked opponent for first time since 2013

LOS LUNAS, N.M. – Spear-headed by a masterful complete game in the circle from Amiee Shanks aided by a three-run bases-clearing triple from Natalie Rodman, the Fort Lewis softball team bested the fourth-ranked West Texas A&M Buffaloes for the first time in program history by a 5-2 decision to close out the South Central Softball Tournament Sunday afternoon at the Los Lunas Sports Complex.
 
Fort Lewis finally downs the Buffs to move to 2-3 overall and snap a 13-game win streak for WTAMU dating back to Feb. 9, 2013, when the two programs met for the first time in Las Vegas, Nev. The Buffs fall to 4-1 overall and suffer their first non-conference loss in two years.
 
The Skyhawks offense exploded in the bottom of the third inning for five runs – the most allowed by West Texas A&M in a single inning thus far – on four singles strung together by Ashley Burriel, Alex Tenorio, Kayla Stone, and Catheryn Rodman. Leading 1-0, Natalie Rodman broke the inning open with a bases-clearing triple that danced inside the right field line. Cara Daugherty forced a fielder's choice the following at-bat to drive in Rodman.
 
West Texas A&M saw just a single hit in the opening frame before Shanks registered a strikeout and forced a ground-out to end the inning. Staying hot in the second, Shanks sat the Buffs down in order to move into the third inning.
 
The Lady Buffs threatened in the third and fourth innings thanks to lead-off hits but ultimately came up empty in the run department. Finally, in the top of the fifth, WTAMU broke the shutout as they pushed across a single run on base-hit to center field. In the final frame, West Texas A&M reached base a handful of times but could only score one final run before a ground ball to second base that kicked off the glove of Stone took a favorable hop toward second base into the glove of Tenorio who stepped on the bag to end the game.
 
Shanks (2-1) surrendered both earned runs while scattering eight total hits and fanning three against only two walks. With 32 batters faced, Shanks forced 12 into groundouts and six into pop flies. WTAMU's Emily Boyer (2-1), a 2023 Honorable Mention All-American and national freshman of the year finalist, took just her fourth career loss (20-4) after giving up five earned runs on eight hits to the Skyhawks. Boyer also struck out only three Skyhawks.  
 
Cat Rodman drove in a run while also scoring herself as she posted a two-hit outing to match Boyer. Tenorio, on the other hand, matched Lauren Granger with a perfect 3-3 at the plate on the afternoon. 

Quotable
"Super proud of Amiee, she has no fear as a pitcher, she doesn't care who's in the box, and she's going to go right at them. I'm proud of our entire lineup today. We have a small team, but everyone knew their role, they stayed level through some of [West Texas'] big moments and played textbook softball. The energy was extremely high all day and it was just a fun softball game to be a part of." - Head coach Paige Adair 
 
Notables
-Fort Lewis finally earns a win against West Texas A&M and now trails the Buffs 13-1 in the all-time series.
-In just her fifth career game as head coach, Paige Adair led Fort Lewis to its first victory over a Top 25-ranked opponent since defeating 12th-ranked Colorado School of Mines (Mar. 29) and 24th-ranked Dixie State (Feb. 10) back in 2013.
-Amiee Shanks has thrown complete games in all three outings this season.
-Natalie Rodman, with just her second career hit, scored what would be the three-run differential the Skyhawks needed to win.
-Through the first five games of the year, seven Skyhawks are batting .300 or better.
-Alex Tenorio, with her 3-3 record at the plate, posted just her fourth career game with a hit in each recorded at-bat.
-Alex Tenorio is a perfect 2-2 on stolen base attempts this season.
 
See You in Canyon
Next weekend Fort Lewis is slated to head down to Canyon, Texas, and the campus of West Texas A&M for the fourth consecutive year to take on Texas A&M-Kingsville (0-1), Eastern New Mexico (4-0), and Lady Buffs once again at the West Texas A&M Invitational from Friday-Sunday, Feb. 9-11.

 
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Scoring Summary

Score By Innings
Play WESTTEX FLC
FLC BOT 3rd C. Rodman singled to left center, RBI (0-2); K. Stone advanced to second; A. Tenorio advanced to third; A. Burriel scored. 0 1
FLC BOT 3rd N. Rodman tripled down the rf line, 3 RBI (1-1); C. Rodman scored; K. Stone scored; A. Tenorio scored. 0 4
FLC BOT 3rd C. Daugherty grounded out to ss, RBI (3-1); N. Rodman scored. 0 5
WESTTEX TOP 5th E. Boyer doubled up the middle, RBI; L. Granger advanced to third; M. Guericke scored. 1 5
WESTTEX TOP 7th D. Murtha reached on a fielder's choice, RBI (3-2); E. Boyer out at second ss to 2b; B. Rufus scored. 2 5

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