DECATUR, Ga. – Rutgers softball split day two of the Bob Heck Memorial Tournament on Saturday, coming back from an 11-3 loss to North Dakota to shutout West Georgia, 1-0.

Freshman right-hander Ella Harrison tossed her third straight shutout victory in the win over the Wolves as LA Matthews' RBI double, scoring Jillian Anderson, accounted for the game's only run. Harrison registered eight strikeouts in her ninth complete game and has given up no earned runs in her last 28.0 innings of work.

North Dakota 11, Rutgers 3 (6)

STATISTICALLY SPEAKING

• Senior Jillian Anderson, redshirt sophomore Bailey Briggs and freshman Kelsie Riggan all had a pair of hits with an RBI.
• Riggan was 2-for-3 and collected her RBI on her first career double along with a run scored.
• Redshirt freshman Hailey Stripling and freshman Siera Hoekstra also came across home plate in the loss.
• Freshman Kelsey Hoekstra picked up the loss to drop to 3-7 on the year. Seniors Laurelai DePew and Georgia Ingle also saw time inside the circle.

THE RUNDOWN

• While the first game with North Dakota on Friday afternoon was a no-hitter for both sides until the bottom of the seventh, it was the opposite for game two on Saturday morning.
• Rutgers was up 1-0 after the top half. Hailey Stripling arrived on base after being hit at the plate and would later score on a Bailey Briggs single up the middle.
• North Dakota, however, fought back with a two-run double, two-run HR & sac fly to go out to a 5-1 lead. Altogether, the Fighting Hawks recorded four hits in their first plate appearance. With runners on first and second, Katelyn Neumayer doubled down the left-field line to score both Hawks while Callie Honig followed with a two-run home run to left. Scoring rounded out with Brooklyn Morris capturing a sac fly to right.
• Back-to-back doubles from Katie Joten and Quincie Chunestudey added a run for the Fighting Hawks in the second, extending their advantage to 6-1.
• North Dakota tacked on two more runs in the fourth for an 8-1 advantage on a solo Neumayer home run and RBI ground out by Morris.
• Rutgers chipped away at its deficit in the sixth. Kelsie Riggan doubled to center to score Siera Hoekstra from second base and scored on a Jillian Anderson base hit to left center as RU trailed 8-3.
• The Fighting Hawks, however, walked it off in the bottom of the inning as Camryn Lasota connected for a three-run home run to left with one out lifted her squad to the 11-3 run-rule win.

Rutgers 1, West Georgia 0

STATISTICALLY SPEAKING

• Ella Harrison tossed her third consecutive shutout, fanning eight along the way, allowing four hits and no walks. She evened her record at 7-7 on the year.
• Rutgers had doubles from senior Jillian Anderson, graduate student LA Matthews and redshirt sophomore Gaelen Kelly, with Matthews' extra-base hit scoring Anderson.

THE RUNDOWN

• Rutgers took a 1-0 lead three batters into the contest and it would be all the Scarlet Knights needed for the win. Jillian Anderson led off with a double down the right field line and scored on a double to right rolling to the wall from LA Matthews.
• West Georgia never made it past second base in the contest. The Wolves had runners on first and second in the second inning and the third was retired after Anderson fired the ball off to
• Addie Osborne at third base to catch Addison Sturdivant trying to take extra bases on a Blair  Bizetter hit.
  The Wolves only garnered one other hit, coming in the sixth, the rest of the way.

UP NEXT

Rutgers softball closes out the Bob Heck Memorial Tournament on Sunday with two games. The Scarlet Knights meet up with Colgate at 10 a.m. and host Georgia State at 12:30 p.m.

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