MARSHALL, Texas – A top 10 showdown was exciting as it could be coming down to the final inning on Strike Out Cancer Weekend. The #4 East Texas Baptist University softball team tied the game at two before #8 Belhaven University scored two runs in the top of the seventh inning to take the series, 4-2. ETBU is 23-5 overall and 19-5 in the American Southwest Conference.
 
ETBU wore their pink jerseys this weekend in honor of the fight against cancer. Former ETBU softball player and 2010 national championship team member Brooke Martin and her sister, Shannon Moncrief, threw out the first pitch.  

Sarah Cedillo (RBI), Tauryn Cummings, Hannah Garcia and Tristen Maddox each had a hit for the Tigers. Allison Damiani also scored a run. Ashley Croft started and went four innings allowing two runs on four hits with one strikeout. Preslye Cox would take the loss with two runs on one hit allowed in three innings.

Neither side would score in the first two innings. The Blazers got on the board in the third inning courtesy of a sacrifice fly to left. Another run would come in the fourth inning on a RBI single for a 2-0 Blazers lead.

ETBU would be held to just one hit for five innings but in the sixth with the bases loaded it was Cedillo who drove in a run on a single. Pinch runner Damiani rounded third and scored the tying run on the same play. BU then took the lead with a two-run blast in the top of the seventh inning, which was enough for the win.

ETBU will host LeTourneau University for their final regular season series of the season starting with a Friday night doubleheader at 5:00 PM.