The North Platte Community College Knights Softball Team spit a doubleheader with the Murray State College Lady Aggies on Saturday losing the first game 6-4 and winning the second game in convincing fashion 14-0 in five innings.  The win was the Knights first win of the season and puts the season record at one win and seven losses.

In game one, the Knights jumped out to an early two to nothing lead on runs by Caroline Motis and Shannon Lieber.  In the second inning, the Knights added one more run when Sara  Villalobos doubled to left field driving in Motis for her second run scored for the game.

The Lady Aggies scored one run in each of their half of the third and fourth inning with runs by Haley Dixson and Kenzi Clapp.  The Lady Aggies took the lead in the bottom of the fifth when Rachel Noble hit a two-run home run scoring Aubrey Wooden.

The Knights tied it up in the sixth at four when Motis scored her third run of the game.

The game remained tied until the bottom of the seventh when Bryanne Knox singled to left field and then scored on Wooden’s walk-off home run.

The Knights were led offensively by Caroline Motis, who reached base three times and scored three runs.  Baileigh Oleson pitched six innings, allowed four earned runs on eight hits, two home runs and striking out six to take the loss.

Murray State were led by  Wooden, who had three hits, including the game winning home run. Jordan Dabney was the starting pitcher for the Lady Aggies. Dabney pitched 5.2 innings allowing six hits and two earned runs. Dabney struck out six. Kaitie Miller pitched 1.1 innings of relief to get the win.

The second game was all Knights.  Brittney Odum hit a three-run home run in the first inning scoring Caroline Motis and Audrie Conner.

The big inning came in the fourth when the Knights scored eight runs. Knights scored  on a two-run single by Shelby Clark, a two-run double by Tara Crouch, a two-run single by Jessica Jarvis, an RBI single by Caroline Motis, and an RBI single by Shannon Lieber.

The Aggies only managed to get one hit off of Knights starter Shannon Lieber.  Lieber pitched five innings  and struck out four.

Andrea Quiroga, Jarvis and Motis each had two hits for the Knights.  Jarvis had four runs batted in. Motis also had a stolen base.

The Knights are in action next when they travel to Borger, TX to participate in the Frank Phillips Tournament on Feb. 20 – 21.