Box Score
GOODWELL, Okla. — No home runs were needed this time.
St. Mary's wrapped up its series sweep of Oklahoma Panhandle State playing good, old small ball, winning 5-0 on Saturday to remain atop the Heartland Conference standings.
The Rattlers (37-12, 12-0) broke open a scoreless game with one run in the third, added another in the fourth and closed out the contest with three in the seventh.
Taylor Vidrine's (So,, San Antonio) seventh-inning double drove in a pair of runs, while
Christina Rodriguez (Sr., San Antonio) and
Sarah Perez (Sr., San Marcos, Texas) added an RBI each.
Haley Richter (So., Hondo, Texas), whose pair of grand slams fueled Friday's wins, went 2 for 4 with a run scored.
Emily Brittain got the win, striking out three in five innings to improve to 22-4 on the season.
The Rattlers won the three-game series by a combined score of 34-1.
St. Mary's will wrap up its weekend action with a single game at West Texas A&M at 1 p.m. Sunday in Canyon, Texas.
St. Mary's University, as a Catholic Marianist University, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community service, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence. The University has six athletic national titles: men's basketball (1989–NAIA), baseball (2001–NCAA Div. II), softball (1986–NAIA and 2002–NCAA Div. II) and an individual national champion in men's golf (2006–NCAA Div. II) and a national academic championship in men's golf (2009–NCAA Div. II). St. Mary's also had more than 40 percent of its athletes named to conference, regional and/or national honor rolls this past year. St. Mary's student–athletes graduation rate is 65 percent, higher than the NCAA Division II average of 55 percent. To learn more about St. Mary's, visit www.rattlerathletics.com.
