LAWRENCE, Kan. – Tulsa scored eight runs on seven hits in the top of the seventh to blow open a close game on its way to an 11-5 win over Kansas on Friday in the first game of the Rock Chalk Challenge.
Julia Hollingsworth and Morgan Neal each had three hits for the Golden Hurricane (15-8), while Samantha Pochop earned the win with just three hits and a run allowed to go along with five strikeouts in 4.2 innings. Neal, Haley Meinen and Mikayla Whitten drove in two runs apiece and freshman Celyna Shaw came off the bench to hit a three-run homer, the first round-tripper of her career.