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Tucson, Ariz. – The USC Upstate softball team dropped its opening game of the Wildcat Invitational on Friday afternoon to the Wisconsin Badgers, 2-0, at Arizona's Hillenbrand Stadium.

USC Upstate falls to 18-1 on the season while Wisconsin improves to 12-8 overall.

Scoring Breakdown

• Top 5^th – The Badgers scored both of their runs in the fifth inning to take a 2-0 lead over the Spartans. Kelly Welsh led off the inning with a walk and advanced to second on a wild pitch. Welsh scored the next at-bat as Kelsey Jenkins singled to center field. Jenkins later came home on an RBI double to right center field by Brooke Wyderski.

Notables

• Kaitlyn Menz (7-4) earned the win throwing a complete game and did not allow a run on one hit, three walks and 10 strikeouts.
• Christina Biggerstaff (8-1) suffered the loss after also tossing a complete game and surrendered two runs on six hits, three walks and nine strikeouts.
• Kristen Wright led USC Upstate offensively with one hit in three plate appearances.
• Wright has now reached base in 14 straight games while Karla Beasley improved her number to 19 consecutive contests and Brittany Case 10.
• Case drew two walks in the game while Beasley recorded one.
• Jenkins finished the game 2-for-4 at the plate with one RBI and one run scored.
• Wyderski went 1-for-4 with one RBI.

UP NEXT

• The Spartans continue play at the Wildcat Invitational tonight at 7 p.m. EST against South Dakota.

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