BETHANY, Okla. — After rains postponed Friday's conclusion, it turned Saturday into an exciting day of nearly three games of softball.
 
Southern Nazarene got a walk-off win to close out the continued game to pick up a 4-3 win over Southeastern Oklahoma State before nearly pulling off a comeback in the seventh before losing 8-7 in the first game of a doubleheader. The Savage Storm then just pulled away late with an 8-run fifth in the final game of the day to pick up a 13-5 win.
 
You couldn't have asked for a more productive output then what Melissa Padilla did for SNU in the three games as the junior transfer went 7-for-11 with five RBIs, three doubles and a run scored. She went 2-for-4 with an RBI in the opener as SNU squeaked out a back and fourth game.
 
In a game that started Friday afternoon, the Savage Storm (12-10, 8-3 GAC) scored two in the top of the first only to be answered by two from the Crimson Storm in the bottom half of the inning. SNU then scored another in second to lead 3-2 on a Lang triple to right. Southeastern tied it in the fourth at 3-3 and the rains took over in the bottom of the fifth with one out. After the game resumed just after 11 a.m., Saturday morning, neither team scored until the bottom of the seventh.
 
Lang opened the inning with a single to left before SOSU got two straight outs. Lang stole second and then Southeastern intentionally walked Syndi Toilolo and walked Allie Baird. Kyndall Freer-Christopher then delivered a walk-off single to right to secure the win.
 
Lang also went 2-for-4 in the contest while Kayla Wyatt (4-5) picked up the win. Wyatt struck out nine and allowed three runs on six hits in seven innings of work. She also recorded her 300 career strikeout in the win.
 
In the first game of the Saturday doubleheader, Padilla went 3-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored. SNU jumped out in front first when Padilla doubled to left field to score to score Jill Clemence. SOSU tied it in the third, but the Crimson Storm retook the lead in the bottom of the third when Sam Smith was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded.
 
Southeastern answered with one in the fourth, but SNU responded right back in the bottom half when Katelyn Brown doubled to give Southern Nazarene a 3-2 lead. The Savage Storm though unloaded with three in the fifth, two in the sixth and one in the seventh to lead 8-3.
 
SNU though didn't go away as it looked to mount a comeback in the seventh. Toilolo drove in the first run of the inning with a single to right before a Freer-Christopher single to right made it 8-5. Hannah LeBeau then drove home Reiana Reeves with a sacrifice fly to cut the deficit to 8-6. SNU took advantage of a Southeastern error to make it 8-7, and had runners had second and third, but grounded out for the final out of the game.
 
Brown (5-7) took the loss after giving up seven runs, six earned, on eight hits in 5.1 innings of work.
 
In the nightcap of the doubleheader, Padilla went 2-for-3 with three RBIs. Two of the RBIs came in the bottom of the first when she ripped a double to right center as part of a 3-run bottom of the first as SNU tied it at 3-3 through the first. SNU took a 4-3 lead on a SOSU error in the bottom fo the second, but the Savage Storm scored one in the third and fourth to take a 5-4 lead.
 
Southern Nazarene tied it in the bottom of the fourth on a Padilla single to right, but SOSU had an 8-run fifth and shut SNU down in the bottom half to pick up the win.
 
Wyatt took the loss after giving up 12 runs, 10 earned, on 4.1 innings of work.