Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 MARSHALL, Minn.—The University of Mary softball team (18-11, 3-3 NSIC) suffered a setback Sunday afternoon as it was swept by Southwest Minnesota State University (6-16, 3-3 NSIC). Errors and a lack of offense doomed the Marauders in the first game as they fell 10-2 in five innings. Trailing nearly the entire game, SMSU rallied to score a pair of runs in both the fourth and fifth inning to sneak out a 4-3 win over U-Mary.
 
GAME 1
 
Despite taking an early 1-0 lead, U-Mary was defeated 10-2 in five innings, largely due to a five-run third inning by SMSU that was keyed by two Marauders errors.
 
Four different players accounted for U-Mary's four hits, with Kristin Ormsby and Amber Gamboa each doubling.
 
Jazmyne Neely was 2-for-5 with five RBI to lead the Mustangs offensive attack.
 
Francine Villalobos put the Marauders on the board in the second inning as she singled down the right field line to score Gamboa, who doubled. Hitless through two innings, the Mustangs led off the third inning with a single. Two hits and two errors later and SMSU put up five runs to take a 5-1 lead.
 
The Marauders answered in the fourth as Ormsby led off the inning with a double. A walk, two fielder's choices and an error gave U-Mary bases loaded with one out. The Marauders scored on a wild pitch, but were unable to muster a hit as the threat ended with just one run scored.
 
SMSU added three runs in the fourth and two in the fifth to secure a 10-2 five inning win. Three of the Mustangs 10 runs were unearned.
 
GAME 2
 
Despite taking the lead just one out into the game and scoring in three of the first four innings, the Marauders fell to the Mustangs 4-3 in game two.
 
Demaree Rodriguez paced U-Mary's offense going 2-for-3 with a double and two RBI.
 
Delivering a one-out single, Alana Norman scored the first run of the game as she was driven in by an RBI single from Julissa Perales.
 
Taylor Mendez led off the second inning with a double and Villalobos followed being hit by a pitch. D. Rodriguez reached on fielder's choice to score Mendez. Mendez would also led off the fourth inning with a with a hit (single) and was sacrificed over, before D. Rodriguez could deliver an RBI double to left field to extend U-Mary's lead to 3-0. The Marauders stranded two in the inning.
 
With just two hits through three innings, SMSU's offense came to life in the fourth and fifth scoring four runs on six hits to take a 4-3 lead.
 
After going down in order in the fifth, U-Mary put together back-to-back hits in the sixth with one out, but stranded both. The Marauders threatened in the seventh with a two-out double by Perales, but went on to fall 4-3.
 
ON DECK
 
U-Mary is next scheduled to be in action on Tuesday as it hits the road for a midweek NSIC contest against University of Minnesota Crookston.
 
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