Husker softball starts season 3-3 at Kajikawa Classic

Errors cost the Nebraska softball team this weekend as the No. 23 Huskers lost Sunday, 6-5, to No. 23 Georgia Tech to finish 3-3 at the 2012 Kajikawa Classic in Tempe, Ariz.

In their sixth game of the 2012 season, the Huskers struck first for the first time all tournament, scoring two runs in the top of the first inning.

NU then scored again in the top of the third inning to give starting pitcher Ashley Hagemann a 3-2 lead heading into the fourth, where she was replaced by sophomore Tatum Edwards.

Hagemann allowed one earned run on one hit, five walks and two strikeouts in three innings of work.

The Huskers then added insurance runs in the fourth and fifth inning to give Edwards some breathing room with a 5-2 lead.

The sophomore helped her cause as she helped Nebraska score in their third straight inning when she doubled and scored on a one-out single from senior Kirby Wright.

Edwards pitched two scoreless innings to begin her outing, but the Yellow Jackets eventually started to push some runs across.

In the bottom of the sixth, Georgia Tech started the inning with an infield single that bounced off an NU glove. The defense continued to falter as a ground ball hit to Taylor Edwards was then thrown wildly to second allowing a run in, cutting the lead down to 5-3. An RBI single by the next batter then trimmed the lead down to 5-4.

The Huskers were silenced in the top of the seventh and the Yellow Jackets carried some of that momentum into the final frame.

Georgia Tech began the inning with two hard-hit balls that deflected off Husker gloves. Tatum Edwards was then able to prevail by retiring the next two batters, but a throwing error by shortstop Gabby Banda allowed Georgia Tech to push across two runners to pick up the win.

Edwards picked up her first career loss as a Husker, after going 7-0 her freshman year.

Nebraska returns to action in Las Cruces, N.M., to play five games beginning Friday, Feb. 17.

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