SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.V.  – The Saint Mary-of-the-Woods softball team was eliminated from the 2024 River States Conference Tournament with a pair of losses on Friday afternoon. They gave up a lone run in the seventh inning to fall to No. 1 Shawnee State in the opening game and came back to fall 3-2 to Midway (Ky.) in the second contest.

SMWC ends their tournament run with a 32-17 overall record. The Pomeroys were the RSC East Division #2 seed at the River States Conference Tournament. They defeated Ohio Christian on Thursday by the score of 4-2 to open tournament play. 

In the opening contest, Summer Rocha saw six innings of work as she scattered seven hits and allowed just one unearned run – in the bottom of the seventh inning. She struck out three in moving to 12-4 on the year inside the circle.

A double by Shawnee State in the seventh inning broke a scoreless tie as the Pomeroys dropped the contest. Abbi Henderson was 2-of-4 batting in the contest as SMWC did tally eight hits but also left eight on base. Henderson stole three bases in the contest.

Midway would score once in the first inning and came back with two more in the third to take a 3-0 lead over SMWC. Ruby Gray got the scoring going in the fourth frame with a RBI single up the middle which scored Abby Broughton and then Jaleigh Crawford singled to right field to drive in Annika Hannigan to make it 3-2. That would be the last runs for the Pomeroys in dropping the contest.

Crawford was 2-of-3 at the plate with a RBI while Gray drove in the other run. Emily Fitzwater surrendered all three of the Midway runs before Marin Jacobs came in to pitch the final 4.2 innings allowing just one hit, no runs and striking out a pair.