CLERMONT, Fla. – Southwest Minnesota State split its first pair of games on its 10-game road trip to Florida with a loss to Saint Joseph's College followed by a 4-3 come-from-behind victory over Ashland University in the nightcap on Sunday night from the Legends Way Ballfields.

Box Score
SMSU vs. SJC- Southwest Minnesota State dropped its first game of the season on Sunday night, 5-4 to St. Joseph's College (Ind.), at Legends Way Field, allowing three runs in the fifth inning.
 
SMSU (4-1) held a 4-2 lead in the fifth inning but SJC scored three runs—two unearned—to rally for the victory.
 
Alex O'Connor (2-1) suffered the loss in the circle for SMSU, allowing five runs (three earned) on two hits with eight strikeouts and five walks in 5 2/3 innings.
 
Trailing 2-0 in the first, SMSU pushed across its first run of the game in the home half of the first on an RBI single by Sam Flack, scoring Taylor Koloc.
 
SMSU took the lead in the third inning as Koloc led off with a triple and scored moments later on a triple by Victoria Brooks, who then scored on the same play on a throwing error to make the score 3-2. Flack would later double in the inning and score as Karman Carroll was caught in a run-down following a walk, to give SMSU a 4-2 lead.
 
It remained 4-2 until the fifth, when SJC would score three runs on just one hit, while taking advantage of two SMSU errors.
 
Koloc and Flack each led SMSU's eight-hit attack with two each apiece.

Box Score
SMSU vs. Ashland- Sam Flack hit an RBI single up the middle in the top of the fifth to help Southwest Minnesota State to a 4-3 win over Ashland University in the second game of the night on Sunday.

Athena Golling earned her first win of the year in the circle as she pitched a complete game for the Mustangs. SMSU's one through four hitters combined for the Mustangs' four runs as they won their third game by two runs or less already this season.

SMSU took an early lead after Taylor Koloc led off the game with a triple followed by a SAC grounder from Kali Tomlinson.

SMSU would then surrender three runs in the bottom half of the third as they fell behind after two extra base hits from Ashland. Following an error from the Eagles' in the top of the fourth, SMSU scored two unearned runs to even the game at 3-3.

With Victoria Brooks on second, Sam Flack hit a two out single up the middle and later advanced on the throw as she grabbed the go ahead RBI for SMSU. Golling gave up just one more hit to the Eagles the rest of the way as the Mustangs earned their first victory on their 10-game road trip.

Southwest Minnesota State will travel to the University of Tampa tomorrow night for a double-header with the first game beginning at 5 p.m., eastern time.