EVANSVILLE, Ind. – With the score tied at 1-1 in the top of the fifth, Missouri State hit a grand slam that was the turning point in a 7-1 victory over the University of Evansville softball team on Saturday afternoon at Cooper Stadium.

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Evansville scored the first run of the game before the Bears scored seven unanswered to take the win.  Highlighting the game for UE was a perfect 3-for-3 day at the plate for Jessica Fehr to go along with a stolen base.  Madison Hunsaker also had a 3-for-3 game to lead MSU.  Bears pitcher Steffany Dickerson threw six innings of 1-run ball on the way to her third win of the series.  Izzy Vetter took the loss, giving up five runs in five frames.
 
Haley Woolf got the Purple Aces on the board in the bottom of the second.  Jessica Fehr reached on a leadoff single to bring Woolf to the plate.  Her double to right center scored Fehr to give UE a 1-0 lead.  The Bears countered in their half of the third.  Three one-out singles resulted in their first run of the afternoon.  Pitcher Steffany Dickerson executed a successful squeeze play to tie the game.  Izzy Vetter recorded the final two outs to limit the damage.
 
Things remained knotted at 1-1 until the top of the fifth.  With two outs and the bases loaded, Olivia Krehbiel hit a grand slam to center field to make it a 5-1 game.  UE battled back with a scoring opportunity on the bottom of the fifth.  Mackenzie McFeron singled to load the bases with one out, but back-to-back ground ball outs ended the threat.
 
Missouri State added two more runs in the seventh to cap off the scoring.
 
UE returns to the field on Wednesday for a doubleheader at Indiana State.  Game one begins at 2 p.m. ET.
 

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