MADEIRA BEACH, Fla.—South Dakota dropped a pair of games at the Madeira Beach Invitational Saturday, falling 9-7 to Southern Illinois in the opener and 7-0 to Purdue in the nightcap.
 
The losses send the Coyotes to 3-6 overall and 1-3 on the weekend. USD wraps up play Sunday with games against Monmouth (10:30 a.m. ET) and Central Arkansas (1 p.m. ET).
 
South Dakota committed six errors in the opening game against the Salukis (1-5) that led to five unearned runs and put the Coyotes in a 6-0 hole through two-and-a-half innings.
 
An RBI single by Charis Black and a bases-loaded walk by Dylan Underwood helped USD cut the lead in half at 6-3 thru three. Lauren Wobken and Skylar Arellano drove in runs in the fifth inning that made it 9-5. Kiersten Denning's base hit to left made it 9-6 and Wobken's sacrifice fly made it a two-run game in the sixth. But USD stranded two in the sixth and went down swinging in the seventh.
 
Both teams totaled 12 hits in the opener. Black was 2-for-3 with a run scored. Camille Fowler and Courtney Wilson were both 2-for-5 with a run scored.
 
Purdue (7-2) used home runs from Madison Douglass and Skye Webb to grab a 3-0 lead through three in game two. Rylee Platusic had a pinch hit, two-run triple in the sixth as part of a three-run inning that made it 7-0.
 
That was plenty for Boilermaker ace Sydney Bates (5-0) who allowed three hits and struck out 10 in six scoreless innings. Aashley Peters pitched a 1-2-3 seventh.
 
Fowler doubled and Wilson singled to start the game against Bates, but were stranded. Both totaled three hits on the day. Wilson has hit safely in seven straight.