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Paulson HR vs. WWU
Stan Plewe/Utah Tech Athletics
9
Winner Dixie State DX-SB 6-3
7
Montana St. Billings MSUB 4-7
Winner
Dixie State DX-SB
6-3
9
Final
7
Montana St. Billings MSUB
4-7
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Dixie State DX-SB 0 0 0 3 0 0 6 9 10 4
Montana St. Billings MSUB 0 1 4 0 2 0 0 7 9 2

W: Dove, Madi (1-1) L: Tokach,Taylor (0-0)

3
Western Washington WWU 4-4
4
Winner Dixie State DX-SB 7-3
Western Washington WWU
4-4
3
Final
4
Dixie State DX-SB
7-3
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E
Western Washington WWU 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 7 0
Dixie State DX-SB 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 4 11 1

W: Feickert, Aryn (4-2) L: Sellevold,Makinlee (0-0)

Game Recap: Softball | | By DSU Athletics Media Relations

No. 2 Storm Softball rallies for two Saturday wins

The No. 2 Dixie State softball team snatched victory from the jaws of defeat not once, but twice on Saturday at the Canyons Softball Complex.

The Red Storm (7-3) scored six runs in the top of the seventh inning en route to a 9-7 victory over Montana State-Billings and later stunned Western Washington with a walk-off home run in the bottom of the eight inning for a 4-3 win.

GAME ONE

Montana State-Billings jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the first game of the day after the Yellowjackets scored one run in the bottom of the second and another four runs in the bottom of the third inning.

Dixie State responded with three runs in the top of the fourth to cut the lead to 4-3 when Shelby Yung (Upland, Calif./Upland HS) singled, scoring Janessa Bassett (Stansbury Park, Utah/Stansbury HS) and Josey Hartman (Mapleton, Utah/Maple Mountain HS).  Yung later scored when Dani Bartholf (Gilbert, Ariz./Gilbert HS) singled to left field.

Unfazed by the DSU rally, MSUB wasted no time adding to the lead. The Yellowjackets pushed two more runs across in the bottom of the fifth inning and seemed poised to complete the victory.

But the tide turned when Mallory Paulson (Fruita, Colo./Fruita Monument HS), leading off the seventh inning for DSU, fouled off pitch after pitch with a full count and eventually drew a walk. The textbook at-bat set the tone for the inning, as Kristie Johnson (Temecula, Calif./Chaparral HS) later blasted a three-run home run, and the Storm pushed three more run across to build a 9-7 lead they would not relinquish.

Bassett and Hartman led DSU and both went 3 for 4, while Madi Dove (Cypress, Calif./Cypress HS) earned her first victory of the season in the pitcher's circle, taking over for Brooklyn Beardshear (Tucson, Ariz./Sahuaro HS) in the second inning.

GAME TWO

The second game of the day started in a much less ominous fashion for Dixie State as the Red Storm took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning when Bartholf singled, scoring Bassett.

The lead would hold until the sixth inning, when Western Washington scored three runs on an RBI single and a two-run home run. Heading to the bottom of the sixth inning, the Storm again seemed destined for a loss.

But, like the first game, DSU refused to go down, this time scoring one run each in the sixth and seventh inning to tie the game at 3-3, setting up the game-winning home run for Paulson in the bottom of the eighth inning.

Paulson and Autumn Woodfall (Kaysville, Utah/Davis HS) led the Storm offensively in game two, going 2 for 3. Aryn Feickert (Lancaster, Calif./Highland HS) pitched another complete game, striking out seven WWU batters and earning her fourth victory of the season.

The Storm wrap up the weekend with two games on Sunday at Karl Brooks Field. DSU will take on Western New Mexico at 10 a.m. and Western Oregon at 12:30 p.m.
 
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