Southwest Minnesota State (7-4): 8, Southern Indiana (6-6): 4
-Box Score

Southern Indiana: 4, Holy Family (0-1): 3
-Box Score (8 innings)

KISSIMMEE, Fla.—Senior first baseman Brittany DeWeese hit a two-run, walk-off home run with one-out in the bottom of the eighth inning to give the University of Southern Indiana softball team a 4-3 extra-inning victory over Holy Family University (Pennsylvania) Sunday at the Division II Rebel Spring Games. USI lost its opening game of the day, 8-4, to Southwest Minnesota State University.

DeWeese had a two-run double in the bottom of the third inning earlier in the game to give the Screaming Eagles a 2-0 lead.

Holy Family (0-1), however, scored a run in the fifth inning to cut the Eagles' lead in half; then tied the game with a tally in the seventh inning. The Tigers took advantage of the international tie-breaker rule in the eighth inning to put across their third run and put the Eagles into a one-run deficit

USI (6-6) also took advantage of the international tie-breaker rule in the last half of the eighth inning as senior third baseman LeAnn Collins laid down a sacrifice bunt to advance the tying run to third base. DeWeese followed Collins' at-bat with the game-winning home run, her first long ball of the season.

Freshman pitcher Madeline Brink earned the win for the Eagles after giving up three runs, two earned, off nine hits in eight innings of work. Brink also struck out four batters as she improved to 2-2 with the decision.

Earlier in the day, the Eagles rallied from a pair of one-run deficits and a two-run deficit to tie the game at 4-4 heading into the bottom of the fifth inning against Southwest Minnesota State. The Mustangs (7-4), however, hung four runs on the Eagles in the last part of the fifth inning to take an 8-4 lead.

USI loaded the bases in the sixth inning but could not cut into the deficit as the Eagles lost its opening game for the second straight day. The Eagles stranded 13 runners on base throughout contest and left the bases loaded four times.

DeWeese went 3-for-4 with an RBI to lead the Eagles offensively, while senior outfielder Reva LeDune-Bourgasser had a solo home run in the second inning to give the Eagles their first run.

Sophomore pitcher Stephanie Bittner was charged with the loss after giving up seven runs off 10 hits in four innings of work. She falls to 2-3 with the setback.

USI returns to action Monday when it takes on the University of Sciences in Philadelphia at 10 a.m. (CST) and Midwest Region foe Lake Erie College at noon. Live stats and audio can be accessed at gousieagles.com.