News release from Texas A&M Athletics:
The No. 13 Texas A&M softball team outlasted Ole Miss, 10-6, to win Game 1 of the series Friday night at the Ole Miss Softball Stadium.
Texas A&M (28-12, 9-4 SEC) used a six-run first inning to seize control and finished with 10 hits and 10 walks. Eight Aggies recorded a hit, while Kennedy Powell and Frankie Vrazel each posted multi-hit games. Micaela Wark matched her career high with four RBI and hit her team-leading 17th home run.
Sidne Peters (11-4) earned the win, tossing 3.0 innings of relief and allowing one run on one hit with three strikeouts. Starter Sydney Lessentine worked 3.2 innings, striking out three while allowing three earned runs.
The Aggies sent 10 batters to the plate in the opening frame, scoring six runs on four hits and three walks. Powell and Tallen Edwards led off with consecutive singles before a pair of walks brought in the first run. Ariel Kowalewski added an RBI single, Kelsey Mathis drew a bases-loaded walk and Paislie Allen lifted a sacrifice fly to make it 4-0. Vrazel capped the inning with a two-out, two-RBI triple to extend the lead to 6-0.
Edwards and Mya Perez opened the second with walks before Wark launched a three-run homer just inside the right-field foul pole to push the advantage to 9-0.
Ole Miss answered with two runs in the bottom half of the inning and continued to chip away with solo home runs in the third and fourth.
Texas A&M added a run in the fifth as Vrazel doubled to lead off and later scored on an Edwards sacrifice fly to make it 10-4. Ole Miss responded with a two-run homer in the bottom half to trim the deficit to four.
After allowing a leadoff single in the sixth, Peters retired the next five batters, highlighted by a 4-6-3 double play and two swinging strikeouts, to secure the 10-6 victory.
UP NEXT
Saturday’s Game 2 first pitch is set for 2 p.m. on SEC Network+ with Jake Hromada (play-by-play) and Carly Hummel (analyst) in the booth. Fans can also listen on the 12th Man Mobile app or locally on Willy 1550 AM, with Matt Simon calling the action in his 12th season as the voice of Texas A&M softball.