DELAND, Fla. – The FIU softball scored three runs in the top of the eighth, after wiggling out of a bases-loaded, one-out situation for Bethune Cookman in the bottom of the seventh, to escape with a 6-3 extra-inning win over the Wildcats in its opening game on Friday at the Stetson Invitational.
Sophomore laced a triple to lead off the eighth and drive home , who was placed on second to start the frame, for the eventual winning run. The Panthers would tack on another two runs on a sacrifice fly by and when scored following a pair of Wildcat fielding errors.