Bison Take Two From Dayton, Middle Tennessee at MTSU Invitational

Saturday, March 13

Murfreesboro, Tenn.

12 p.m.

North Dakota State

3-10

Dayton

4-6

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
Dayton	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	4	8	2
North Dakota State	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	1	5	6	3

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
North Dakota State	3	2	0	0	0	0	3	8	7	0
Middle Tennessee	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	8	4

Photo by: Josh Padilla/MTSU

3/13/2021 8:43:00 PM | Softball

Box Score 1 Box Score 2 Box Score vs. Dayton Box Score vs. Middle Tennessee

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - The North Dakota State softball team picked up a pair of wins over Dayton 5-4 in extra innings and Middle Tennessee State 8-3 on Saturday, March 13, at the MTSU Invitational.

Mac Schulz pitched all nine innings in the opener for the Bison (4-10) allowing three earned runs on eight hits with six strikeouts and zero walks. NDSU won it in the bottom of the ninth when Nicole Licea's one-out bunt scored Molly Gates.

Ciara Jensen was 2-for-4 with a three-run homer against Dayton that gave the Bison a 3-2 lead in the third. Cameryn Maykut picked up an RBI in the eighth with a game-tying bunt after the Flyers had gone ahead 4-3.

It was all Bison in the nightcap as NDSU jumped out to a 5-0 lead on Skylar Padgett's three-run triple in the first inning and scored two more in the second on a two-out fielding error. Paige Vargas pitched all seven innings for the win allowing eight hits with three strikeouts and one walk.