GPS’s Morgan Lane, No. 3, rounds second base after hitting a home run during Tuesday’s game. The GPS and Baylor softball teams played at the Baylor School on Tuesday.Haley Andrus said she doesn’t remember hitting two home runs in a game before. Maybe she’ll remember the time she hit three.
The Baylor slugger’s seven-RBI performance was the difference in Tuesday’s slugfest at Baylor. The Lady Red Raiders won 16-9 over GPS and seized early-season control in Division II-AA’s East/Middle Region.
Wind blew consistently toward the outfield during the game, gusting at times, and Andrus said that was important for the hitters. If it helped her at all it would’ve been on her high fly to right field leading off the bottom of the fifth inning that landed behind the fence.
Her three-run blasts to nearly the same spot in left-center in the third and fourth didn’t need any aid. Six home runs were hit in all.
“Both teams, the ones hit, they were gone,” Baylor coach Kelli Smith said. “They were all just rockets off the bat.”