Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 DURANT, Okla. (Feb. 6, 2016) – One of the perils of having a young team in any sport can be dramatic swings in performance from game to game. Oklahoma Christian experienced both ends of the spectrum on Saturday in the Southeastern Regional Invitational.

OC rolled up 19 hits in an 18-3 rout of Emporia State (Kan.), a traditional softball power from the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association. But the Lady Eagles managed only two hits in a 9-0 loss to another strong MIAA squad, Central Missouri, at the Durant Multi-Sports Complex.

In the opener, OC (1-3) scored in every inning and posted its highest run total since a 23-0 romp over Hillsdale Baptist on May 8, 2014. It was the third-highest-scoring game in OC history, behind only the Hillsdale Baptist game and a 20-0 win over Southwestern Oklahoma State in 1998.

Eight Lady Eagles had two or more hits against Emporia State (1-2), and the Hornets didn't help themselves by committing three errors, two of which came in a seven-run second-inning outburst for OC that gave the Lady Eagles a 10-0 lead.

Freshman Kirsten Scott had four RBIs – two on a single that dribbled just in front of home plate in the first inning, and two more on a ball crushed into the right-center field gap in the third inning. Another freshman, Bridget White, went 3-for-3 and also had four RBIs, hitting a two-run home run in the fifth inning.

OC freshman Kaylie Upton (1-0) allowed five hits and one run in four innings of work to record her first collegiate win. Emporia State's Hannah Wright (0-1) lasted only 1 2/3 innings and gave up 10 runs (one earned).

Central Missouri (1-2) is coming off a season in which it was among the final eight teams in the NCAA Division II tournament and the Jennies – which finished 26th in the voting in the preseason Division II coaches' poll – jumped on OC from the start.

Jill Lucas delivered a two-run single off OC starter Madison Nordyke (0-2) in the first inning. Central Missouri added three more runs in the second, although OC catcher Niki Davidson mitigated the damage of her team's three errors in the inning by throwing out two baserunners trying to steal and narrowly missed throwing out a third.

OC had only two hits off Central Missouri starter Allison Tonyan (1-0) – an infield single by Davidson in the fourth and a two-out, line-drive single up the middle by Alexus Vanlandingham in the fifth.

The Lady Eagles will complete play in the Southeastern event with two games on Sunday against two more MIAA squads – Pittsburg State (Kan.) and Missouri Southern.