ALVIN -- Navarro Softball aims to stop a four-game losing streak here Wednesday when it challenges the Alvin Community College Dolphins in a noon, non-conference doubleheader.
The Bulldogs suffered tough 6-5 losses Monday to Cowley, Ks., and to 10th-ranked Seminole State, Ok., as the Weatherford College Coyote Chillout concluded.
COWLEY 6, NAVARRO 5
NC's seventh-inning uprising left the potential game-tying run at second base, and the Tigers escaped with the one-run win.
NC trailed 6-4 when Faith Fernandez reached on a fielder's choice, advanced to second on a wild pitch, and scored on Bayja Newby's fourth hit of the day -- a double. Later, with two out in the inning, pinch-hitter Abby Willis and Harley Davis pieced together consecutive singles to extend the rally .
The Bulldogs took a 1-0 lead for starter Braylee Forse in the second inning as Newby singled, moved to third on an error and crossed home via a passed ball.
Cowley's three-run third quickly was countered by Navarro in the top of the fourth. The 'Dawgs took a 4-3 lead as five consecutive batters reached safely. Singles by Tatum Briggs, Newby and Davis, plus bases-on-balls to Faith Fernandez and Mackenzie Lakey ignited the comeback.
Forse worked three-and-one-third innings and lefthander Kaitlynn Woodlee completed two-and-two-thirds of one-hit shutout relief.
Navarro.............010....300...1 -- 5-9-0 (LOB 10)
WP: Julie Kennedy. LP: Kaitlynn Woodlee.
BATTING:
3B: Alanna Islas, London Reue
HR: Faith Fernandez
TB: Tatum Briggs, Faith Fernandez 4, Alanna Islas 3, Bayja Newby, London Reue 3, Maddie Wright
RBI: Tatum Briggs, Faith Fernandez, Alanna Islas, London Reue
SAC: Jenna Rude
ROE: Bayja Newby, Maddie Wright 2
HBP: Harley Davis, Jenna Rude, Abby Willis
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Leading Hitters:
Faith Fernandez -- 1-4, R, HR, RBI
London Reue -- 1-4, R, 3B, RBI
Alanna Islas -- 1-3, R, 3B, RBI, BB
Tatum Briggs -- 1-4, RBI
Bayja Newby -- 1-4, R
