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Barela’s walk-off home run clinches 6-3 win

EVANSVILLE, Ind. – With one out in a 3-3 game in the bottom of the ninth, Alyssa Barela launched a 3-run walk-off home run to give the University of Evansville softball team a 6-3 victory over UNI on Sunday at Cooper Stadium. Box Score (PDF) UE (18-10, 3-3 MVC) scored three runs in the first before Northern Iowa (13-11, 5-1 MVC) tied it with two runs in the fourth and one in the fifth. Pitchers Izzy Vetter and Kailyn Packard took over at that point, keeping the opposition scoreless until Barela's homer in the ninth.