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Dodge City softball hit the road to wrap up their non-conference of the 2024 season traveling to Arkansas City, Kansas to take on #20 Cowley (NJCAA DII) in a doubleheader and despite an offensive outburst, the Conquistadors dropped a pair of road tilts 20-17 and 8-0. 

The Conqs are still in search of their first wins of the season sitting at 0-10 on the year and will open KJCCC action on Saturday, February 24th at home as they host Barton starting at 1:00 pm. 

Game 1 – Lost 20-17 at Cowley 
The Conqs had an outburst of offense in game one of the doubleheader with Cowley but the Tigers answered with plenty of offense for themselves. The Conqs took the initial lead with four runs in the top of the third highlighted by a Toni Gabaldon three-run homer. Cowley answered with three in the bottom of the third and three more in the bottom of the fourth to take a 6-4 lead. In the fifth the Conqs would bat around getting a grand slam from Rylie Miller followed by a solo home run by Emily Yelton to lead the way for seven runs and an 11-6 lead. In the bottom of the fifth Cowley countered with five runs to tie the game at 11-11. The sixth would see more runs on both sides as the Conqs tallied six led by a grand slam from Reneau Ratzlaff and a two-run homer by Yelton but Cowley matched with six of their own. After the Conqs were unable to score in the top of the seventh Cowley worked a pair of base runners on in the bottom of the seventh and then blasted a three-run home run to take the game 20-17. 

In the loss Ratzlaff was 3-3 with a grand slam, three runs scored, two doubles, five RBI, and two walks. While Abigail Taylor was 2-3 with three runs scored and two walks; Yelton added a 3-3 game with two home runs, three RBI, a double, and two walks.

Game 2 – Lost 8-0 at Cowley (5 innings) 
The second game of the day would remain scoreless until the fourth inning as Cowley broke through in the bottom of the fourth with six runs and then tacked on two more in the fifth to end the game via run rule at 8-0. The Conqs would have a base runner each half inning with three hits, a walk, and a hit batter accounting for the runners in the loss. 

Taylor was 1-2 with a hit by a pitch in the loss, while Sayge Salmans was 1-1 and Yelton had the other Conq hit.