DELAND, Fla. – Michelle Baneulos-Smith had six hits on the
day as Bethune-Cookman split its games at the Hatter Classic Saturday.
The Wildcats (2-11) snapped a four-game losing streak with a
9-6 victory over Dartmouth in eight innings before falling 7-3 to host Stetson.
B-CU 9, DARTMOUTH 6 (8)
Banuelos-Smith went 4-5 and drove in three runs as the
Wildcats rallied to down Dartmouth in extra innings.
The Wildcats forced extra innings in the seventh when
Banuelos-Smith singled home Simone Ceasar to tie the game at 6-6.
In the eighth, Wanda Darby scored when Calesha Shelley
reached on an error. Shelley stole second and third and was brought in by a
Kelsey Rodney single, then Rodney scored on a Melissa Berouty single.
B-CU took a 2-0 lead in the fourth when Banuelos-Smith launched
a two-out triple to score Shelley and Ceasar, but Dartmouth took the lead with
a three-run fifth.
In the sixth, Shamaria Engram singled in Berouty and
Shelley's two-run single scored Darby and Engram for a 5-3 Wildcat lead, but
Dartmouth took a 6-5 lead in the bottom half of the inning.
Shelley, Ceasar and Berouty each had two hits for B-CU.
STETSON 7, B-CU 3
Against Stetson, the
Wildcats tied the game at 3-3 in the sixth when Rodney scored on a Berouty
single, but the Hatters pulled away in the seventh, stringing together six
straight two-out hits to produce four runs.
Banuelos-Smith scored the first two B-CU runs after leading
off the second with a double and scoring on an error and scoring on a fourth-inning error after
singling.
B-CU concludes the Hatter Classic with a noon meeting with
Dartmouth Sunday.