HATTIESBURG, Miss. – Minutes after Southern Miss tied the score at 1-1, Bella Coffey hit a 2-run double to help the University of Evansville softball team finish the Hub City Challenge with a 3-1 win over Southern Miss. Box Score (PDF) Evansville's win caps off another strong weekend that saw the Purple Aces go 3-1 while improving to 9-5 on the season with three of those losses coming to opponents ranked in the top eight in the nation.
Izzy Vetter was the story through the first five innings on Sunday. The senior allowed just one Southern Miss hit in the opening five frames while the offense gave her a 1-0 lead in the third.