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Box Score 2 NORMAN, Okla.- Skylynne Ellazar continued her early season surge, going 4-6 with a home run, two doubles, and three RBI's in day one of the Oklahoma Invitational.
Maryland (6-15) dropped both games of a Friday doubleheader, 11-2 to Saint Louis and 7-4 to BYU
GAME ONE
Sarah Calta, Skylynne Ellazar, and Hannah Dewey went a combined 6-7 with two doubles and a triple, but Maryland dropped the OU Invitational opener to Saint Louis 11-2 in six innings.
Saint Louis took a demanding lead early, scoring six runs off four hits in the first inning. Allie Macfarlane gave the Billikens a 4-0 lead with a one out grand slam. St. Louis then reloaded the bases and chimed in again, scoring two more with an Alex Nickel RBI single to make it 6-0.
Sami Main relieved Hannah Dewey in the second inning and went five innings allowing five runs off six hits. The Billikens scored one in the second and third.
The Terrapins got on the board in the third with three straight two out hits by Sarah Calta, Kylie Datil, and a RBI single by the star of the day: Skylynne Ellazar.
Kylie Datil scored on a wild pitch in the fifth inning to cut the lead to six, 8-2, but Saint Louis scored three in the sixth to win the shortened game 11-2.
GAME TWO
After falling behind 3-0, Maryland would rally to tie the game at 4-4, but three BYU seventh inning runs gave the Cougars a 7-4 win.
Brenna Nation started the game for the Terrapins, pitching an effective four innings, allowing four runs off of six hits.
BYU used an Ashley Thompson RBI double to take a 1-0 lead in the first and two-run shot by Libby Sugg in the third to extend their lead to 3-0.
Maryland got to Olivia Sanchez in this game, scoring four runs off nine hits in just 3.2 innings. The runs started with back-to-back home runs in the third inning by Emily Libero and Skylynne Ellazar. The two dingers marked Libero's first career long-ball and Ellazar's second.
After BYU extended their lead back to two, 4-2 in the fourth, Maryland tied it up in the bottom half. Destiney Henderson and Skylynne Ellazar got one run back as Henderson singled and stole second. Then, her fellow sophomore Ellazar, brought her in with a RBI double. Corey Schwartz continued the hit parade with a game tying RBI single. Through four, the score was all squared up at four.
Oklahoma native Madison Martin came in for the fifth inning and held BYU scoreless in the fifth and sixth. In the seventh however, Martin allowed a leadoff home run and the Cougars took the lead. Off Hannah Dewey, BYU scored two more unearned runs to extend the lead to 7-4.
The Terrapins will have a chance at revenge against Saint Louis tomorrow at 2:15 p.m. before a televised game against No. 13 Oklahoma at 6:45. The game against the Sooners will be on Fox Sports Oklahoma and Fox Sports College Sports Central.
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