Rockhurst (21-25, 10-12 GLVC): 4, 12
at Southern Indiana (21-21, 10-14 GLVC): 2, 3
Box Scores: Game 1 | Game 2 (6 innings)

EVANSVILLE, Ind.—The University of Southern Indiana softball team suffered a pair of Great Lakes Valley Conference losses to visiting Rockhurst University on Senior Day Saturday. USI lost the first game, 4-2, and the second game, 12-3, in six innings.

Rockhurst (21-25, 10-12 GLVC), which leaped the Screaming Eagles for the eighth and final spot in the GLVC Tournament, scored once in the top of the fourth inning and three times in the fifth inning to build a 4-0 lead in the first game.

USI (21-21, 10-14 GLVC) rallied for a pair of runs in the bottom of the seventh inning, but could not get any closer as the Hawks got two straight outs to end USI's threat and pick up the game-one victory. Sophomore designated player Stephanie Bittner had the Eagles' lone RBI in the seventh frame.

Freshman pitcher Madeline Brink was charged with the loss for USI after giving up four runs off seven hits and four walks in seven innings of work. Brink (11-10) also worked a pair of innings in the second game, giving up three runs off four hits.

The Hawks, who scored twice in both the first and second innings of game two, built a 9-0 lead as they added two more runs in the fourth inning and three more in the fifth frame.

USI, which has a couple scenarios available heading into the final day of the regular season that would allow it to clinch a spot in the GLVC Tournament, scored three times in the last part of the fifth inning to keep its hopes of a comeback alive.

Senior second baseman Amanda Brendel (Salem, Illinois), who extended her on-base streak to 43 games Saturday, had a two-run single to put the Eagles on the scoreboard. She came around to score the Eagles' third run on an error later in the frame.

The Eagles, however, saw the Hawks put up three more runs in the top of the sixth inning; then went down in order bottom of the sixth inning as they lost via the eight-run rule.

Freshman pitcher Kelsey Jankowski was charged with the loss after giving up nine runs, eight earned, off eight hits in four innings of work. She falls to 7-4 with the setback.

USI closes the regular season Sunday at noon when it hosts Quincy University in a GLVC doubleheader. The Eagles need to either sweep Quincy and have Rockhurst lose once to the University of Missouri-St. Louis Sunday, or split with Quincy and have Rockhurst drop both games to Missouri-St. Louis in order to qualify for next weekend's conference tournament.