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BILLINGS, Mont. -- Kaycee Hoffman went 4-for-5 with three home runs as the Montana State Billings softball team earned a day one split with Saint Martin's University Saturday afternoon at Cenex Stadium. The Yellowjackets moved their record to 10-13 overall on the year and are now 8-10 in conference.

 

Hoffman's day also included three runs scored and four RBI as she slugged an overly impressive, 2.600 during the day. Bobbie Lee also went 4-for-7 as she hit .571 during the afternoon. Five players in total hit over .400 on the day for the Jackets.

 

The team hit .350 in the two games, scoring 16 runs on 21 hits, including six home runs. The Jackets were 2-for-2 in stolen base attempts and committed two errors in the pair of games.

 

 

MSUB struck early in game one as Becca Frank walked with one out, then stole second, and advanced to third on an error, before scoring on a Meg Harasymczuk single through the left side. In the next at bat, Hoffman sent a long fly ball to center field for her sixth homer of the season, giving the Jackets a 3-0 to start the game.

 

The Saints battled back with two runs in the second on a double by Tiffany Griffiths and three more runs in the third on a home run by Joslyn Eugenio, taking a 5-3 lead.

 

The Jackets cut the lead back to one, 5-4, when Harasymczuk hit her fifth home run of the season when leading off the fifth inning.

 

Again the Saints struck in the sixth to stretch the lead back to two as Morgan Klemm took a swing that sent the ball sailing over the left field fence.

 

The Jackets attempted another late-inning comeback, scoring a run when Tarn Potter scored on an error by the Saints, but the Jackets ran themselves out of the inning to fall by one.

 

Parsley took the loss to fall to 3-6 on the season as she tossed seven complete innings with six runs scored on nine hits. She walked one and struck out four during the afternoon.

 

Harasymczuk was 2-for-4 with two runs scored and two RBI in the game. Lee was the only other Jacket with multiple hits, going 3-for-3 on the day.

 

The Yellowjackets put another crooked number up on the scoreboard early in game number two of the twinbill, unloading four runs in the second inning.

 

Hoffman unloaded her second home run of the day as she led off the inning against Brandi Klemm. Her home run was followed in the next at bat by another solo shot, this time by Potter. Rose Harrington would later single toward second base to score Nicole Colpron, followed by Madison Smith stealing home on a double steal play with Harrington.

 

The Saints tied the game in the top of the fifth with four runs on two hits off of MSUB starting pitcher, Kasie Conder.

 

MSUB quickly took the lead back in the bottom of the inning as Hoffman jacked her third home run of the day, another solo shot, to give MSUB a 5-4 lead. The lead was short lived however, as SMU scored two more runs off of relief pitcher, Amanda Todd.

 

The Jackets blew the game wide open in the sixth with two outs on the board and two runners on the bags, as Harasymczuk hit an RBI-double to center to begin the scoring. After Hoffman walked to load the bases, Potter hit a two-RBI single into center field to make the score 8-6.

 

The hitting continued when Colpron blasted her second home run of the year out to left field for three more RBIs, making the score 11-6. The Jackets closed the door on the Saints in the final inning with two quick outs and then after a single, a strikeout to end the game.

 

Todd took the win to move to 2-3 on the year, throwing two innings of relief work with one strikeout and one walk. Hoffman was 3-for-3 in the game with two runs and two RBI. Potter and Colpron combined to go 3-for-6 with four runs scored and six RBI.