Lauren Mills set up the game's biggest hit with a series of foul balls in the second inning, an at-bat that ended with a groundout.
That harmless at-bat, part of a 1-2-3 inning, wasn't really harmless. Those 10 pitches signaled Mills' ability to figure out USF pitcher Georgina Corrick and that paid off in the eighth inning.
"She's got a great eye," Wichita State coach Kristi Bredbenner said. "She ended up grounding out, but I felt like she was seeing the ball pretty well."
Mills, a freshman DH from Topeka, proved that in the eighth to give Wichita State a 4-3 win over first-place USF on Friday at Wilkins Stadium.