ATLANTA, Ga. – North Dakota State took a wild 12-inning first game by the score of 8-6 over Georgia Tech and the Yellow Jackets held on for a 5-4 win in the second on Saturday, March 25, at Shirley Clements Mewborn Field. The Bison broke a six-game losing streak in game one.
 
NDSU (11-21) and Georgia Tech (10-21) are scheduled to close out the three-game series with a single-game at 11 a.m. CT on Sunday, March 26.
 
Zoe Stavrou laced a two-run single to right center with two outs to score Stephanie Soriano and Madyson Camacho in the top of the 12th inning to provide the eventual game-winning hit for North Dakota State in game one. The 12-inning game tied the school record for the longest game for the fifth time.
 
NDSU right-hander Jacquelyn Sertic (9-15) worked out of trouble in the bottom of the 12th inning with the game-tying runs in scoring position. Sertic tied a school single-game record with 19 strikeouts to match Whitney Johnson's 19 in an eight-inning win against Toledo (2-9-12). Sertic reached double-figure strikeouts for the sixth time this season and 12th time in her career. She had eight walks.
 
Soriano, a freshman from Moreno Valley, Calif. (Valley View H.S.), tied the school record with five hits in seven trips to the plate. She became the fifth Bison player to collect five hits in a game, the first since Melissa Chmielewski against St. Mary's, Calif. (3-5-08).
 
Georgia Tech came back to tie the game 5-5 in the bottom of the seventh inning on Rebecca Prairie's solo home run and Draven Sonnon's two-run double. Each team scored in the eighth, North Dakota State on Stavrou's sacrifice fly and the Yellow Jackets on Katie Krzus' double and NDSU throwing error.
 
Montana DeCamp had put the Bison ahead 5-2 in the top of the seventh with a RBI double. DeCamp, who went 2 for 5, hit her third home run of the season – a two-run shot – in the top of the second.
 
Brooke Barfield and Jenna Goodrich (5-6) pitched for Georgia Tech with Goodrich picking up the loss. The pair combined to walk 14 and strike out 13.
 
The Yellow Jackets outhit NDSU 11-9 and had four players with two hits led by Kelsey Chisholm's pair of doubles. Georgia Tech had six extra-base hits. Both teams stranded 14 base runners.
 
In the second game, North Dakota State jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the top of the first inning. Vanessa Anderson opened the scoring with a RBI single. Bre Beatty then delivered a squeeze bunt to send home the second. Anderson scored on a Yellow Jackets' error.
 
Georgia Tech cut the deficit to 3-2 in the bottom of the third on Malea Bell's two-run home run, then took a 4-3 lead on Bell's two-run single in the bottom of the fifth. The Yellow Jackets picked up an important insurance run in the sixth on Crobsy Huckabay's RBI single. Bell went 2-for-3 with four RBI.
 
Stavrou was issued a bases-loaded walk in the seventh to trim the GT lead to 5-4. Anna Watson, Lauren Reimers, Stavrou and Anderson had the NDSU hits.
 
Goodrich went the distance in game two and recorded the win for Georgia Tech. She walked five, scattered four hits and struck out two.
 
KK Leddy (2-6) picked up the loss for NDSU. Leddy allowed five hits, walked five and struck out two.