COMMERCE, Texas. — South Dakota softball picked up two more wins Sunday evening over East Texas A&M and are now 6-2 at Cain Family Field this season.
 
Game 1 vs East Texas A&M – W, 3-2
McKenna Young picked up right where she left off following a 14-strikeout complete game Saturday night with another gem in the circle today. Young tossed her second straight complete game to pick up her fourth win of the season with 11 punchouts.
 
Young allowed just three hits across her seven innings and allowed two earned runs. Young retired the side in five innings, including a pair of frames in the fifth and seventh where she struck out the side.
 
The top of the order went right to work to open the game with three straight singles from Tatum Villotta, Alyssa Thorson and Delaney White to load the bases. Vilotta would be the first Coyote to cross home plate on a Lion wild pitch, and Piper Ruhl would put the Yotes up 2-0 in the next at-bat bringing in Thorson from third.
 
After a pair of scoreless innings, Clara Edwards extended the lead to 3-0 with a blast over the left field fence in the fourth, her first home run of the season.

East Texas A&M belted a two-run home run in bottom half of the fourth, but it wouldn't phase Young who retired the next nine batters in order with seven strikeouts to secure out the 3-2 win.
 
Game 2 vs East Texas A&M – W, 8-4
Villotta and Thorson quickly gave the Yotes a 2-0 lead in game two of the doubleheader against the Lions. After a Villotta leadoff single, Thorson would lay down a bunt in an effort to move the runner over but would end up touching home plate on the play after a Lion throwing error.
 
The Lions answered in the bottom of the first with a two-run homer to knot the game at 2-2. The Yotes pulled back ahead in the top of the second, as Thorson reached on a fielding error that brought Ruhl in from third.
 
With two outs and runners on the corner, Rylee Jones reached base on a fielding error by the pitcher on a hard hit ball that scored Campbell German, the first run of the frame for the Yotes. Villotta singled up the middle in the next at-bat, notching her second multi-hit game of the day, to score Ruhl and put the Yotes up 5-2.
 
German held the Lions scoreless over the next two frames, but East Texas A&M pulled within one run with a pair of runs in the fifth.
 
The Yotes placed runners in scoring position early in the sixth after a leadoff single from White and a double from Edwards. An infield single from Brynnly German, her first career hit as a Coyote, brought in two runs to extend the lead to 7-4. Campbell German added another insurance run with a double down the line, scoring Brynnly German from third to give USD a four-run lead.
 
Young entered in relief in the bottom of the sixth and held the Lions scoreless while adding two more strikeouts to end her two-game day with 13 punchouts.
 
The Coyotes and Lions will have a quick turnaround as they match up for the fifth time this season tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. from Cain Family Field.