TAHLEQUAH –
Chloe Bohuslavicky broke the single-season home runs mark for NSU Saturday as they wrapped up its regular season with a sweep of Fort Hays State. The RiverHawks walked off 4-3 in the tenth and won the nightcap 5-1.
Bohuslavicky passed Paige Gann (2015-18), who hit 12 out of the park in 2015.
The RiverHawks finished the regular season with its fifth consecutive winning year, matching the program's longest set in the mid-2000s, and matched its best with 16 MIAA wins.
When the bracket is announced Sunday, the RiverHawks will be either the four or five seed in the MIAA Tournament, which starts on May 4 in Edmond.
All the scoring through six innings came off two swings of the bat in the opener. The Tigers worked a lead-off walk to start the second and hit a homer to left to take a 2-0 lead.
Northeastern State countered in the fourth following an
Alyssia Crick double with
Chloe Bohuslavicky blasting her 13th bomb of the year to tie the game.
It would take until the tenth, when the Tigers plated an unearned run to take the lead.
Addy Wolfe drew a walk in the bottom half of the inning, and
Jaeden Rosenquist turned the first pitch in her at-bat over the left field fence to win the game.
NSU had just five hits in the contest.
Gail Young (11-9) won in her final home start going all ten innings and allowing six hits.
NSU scored in their first at-bats in the opening frame in the nightcap, with
Payton White hitting an RBI fielder's choice and Wolfe scoring two on a double. Crick homered in the third on her senior day to give NSU a 5-0 lead.
Fort Hays' (23-29, 9-17 MIAA) lone run came in the sixth inning.
Crick went 3-for-3, and
Sydney Balderrama scored two runs.
Jenna Chassie (3-0) struck out five batters in her final home start.
The RiverHawks close its regular season with a 28-23 overall mark and 16-10 in the MIAA.