SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Senior Grace French hit her third homer of the day and fellow senior Samantha Smith smacked a pair of doubles in a three-hit outing, but Drake erased two Bradley leads by scoring eight of the runs 10 runs to edge the Braves 9-6 in the third round of the 2022 Missouri Valley Conference Tournament Thursday night at Missouri State's Killian Stadium.
French, who hit two homers in Bradley's 4-1 victory against Loyola earlier in the day, collected her third dinger of the day and her team-best seventh of the year during a four-run fourth that gave the Braves (26-26 overall) a 4-1 lead.