ST. LOUIS, MO. – Haley Tate capped off a perfect 2-0 day for Missouri Baptist Softball on Friday afternoon with a six-inning no-hitter. The Spartans had two stellar pitching performances and backed them up with 17 runs of offense between the two games.
 
Shelby Sievers and Summer Rocha were off to hot starts in the circle to begin game one, keeping things scoreless until the bottom of the fourth. Allison Pingel led off the inning with a walk followed by a single from Kaitlyn Chadwick and another walk from Cami Meddows. With the bases loaded and one out, Sydney Berry broke the deadlock with an RBI ground out.
 
The Pomeroys quickly responded. After Sievers worked her way out of jams in the first few innings, the visitors finally got to her with a pair of runs on a Josie Lord double to left-center field.
 
In the bottom half of the fifth, the Spartan offense came alive. Madalyn Bone led off the inning with a single to third followed by a bunt single from senior Jordan Corby. A successful double steal attempt and a Sievers double led to MBU regaining a 3-2 lead.
 
Chadwick drove home Sievers later in the inning to extend the lead. Katelyn Turbyfill, fresh off her game-winning RBI single last weekend, continued to come through in the clutch with another run-scoring hit to finish off the five-run inning.
 
A two-run bottom of the sixth and a perfect seventh inning on the rubber from Ally Dunaway completed the 8-2 Spartan victory in game one.
 
Shelby Sievers picked up her first win for the program behind six innings, four hits, two earned, and four strikeouts.
 
The offensive momentum continued deep into game two. Back-to-back doubles from Bone and Corby had the Spartans up 1-0 and they never looked back. In all, the Spartans collected 9 runs in the six-inning short game on 12 hits and six Pomeroy fielding errors.
 
Game two starter Haley Tate was the main story of the second game, however. The junior from Eureka, Missouri got off to a quick start in the first three innings, collecting four strikeouts.

Perfectly pitched fourth and fifth innings set her up to pitch what would be the final inning. With the sunlight quickly fading, Tate retired the first hitter of the sixth on a lazy fly ball to right field on one pitch. She ran into some trouble after a four-pitch walk and an error put a runner in scoring position.
 
Katrina Strow, the two-hole hitter for the Pomeroys, grounded into a fielder's choice for the second out. On the third pitch of the next at-bat, Strow took off for second base but was tagged out by Bone on a perfect throw from Chadwick behind the plate.
 
MBU completed the short game with two more runs in the bottom of the sixth to finish off Tate's first collegiate no-hitter.  This is the first time that a Spartan has thrown a no-hitter since Delissa Dennison's perfect game against Lincoln College in a fall exhibition game on September 24, 2018.
 
Missouri Baptist hits the road for their next pair of games on March 9 against Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri. The first pitch is scheduled for 2 p.m.