Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - Emporia State scored five late runs Sunday in the first MIAA championship game to defeat the 25th-ranked Mavericks, 5-1 and force a second game at Blue Valley Recreaction Complex.

The Hornets then came back to win the second one, 5-3 and win their sixth straight MIAA postseason tournament.

Nebraska-Omaha fell to 43-14 and will now await the seeding for the NCAA tournament. The Mavs are ranked fourth in the South Central Region and the top eight teams in each region make the field.

The Mavs went up, 2-0 in the second game when Kristi Meneely homered down the left field line in the second inning to drive in Amanda Bader.

ESU then scored five unanswered runs with one in the third and two each in the fifth and sixth innings.

Down three in the top of the seventh, Julia Krejci hit her second pinch-hit homer of the tournament to cut the lead to two. Treightin Yates and Molly Feichtinger then each hit singles to bring lead run to the plate but ESU pltcher Megan Dennis got a strikeout to end the game.

All three Maverick pitchers threw in the game and Beth Haley got the loss as she allowed the final three runs.

In the first game the Hornets broke a scoreless tie with three runs in the fifth inning off three staight hits. UNO scored on an error in the bottom of the fifth but ESU scored one more in the sixth and seventh innings.

Melissa Negrete started for UNO and got the loss. She allowed three runs off five hits with three strikeouts.

Bader went 5 for 6 in the two games with two doubles for UNO.