LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Softball split its twin bill with Brandeis on Tuesday, February 18 with a 4-3 win in game one and 13-5 loss in the final game.
 
Game 1 – W, 4-3
 
In come-from-behind fashion, the Tigers won a thriller. Down 3-0 after the top of the first, Occidental and starting pitcher Zada Day-Adams held Brandeis to a mere four hits and six total base runners through the final six innings.
 
After being held scoreless through four, the Tigers broke through in the fifth, scoring two runs, then Ava Quezada knocked in the go-ahead run in the sixth. Her single to center brought home Brooke Doebler. That was Quezada's second RBI single of the game, she drove in the Tigers' first run of the game an inning prior.
 
Alysha Wagner added a RBI single and Isabella Harding's sacrifice fly in the sixth rounded out all Tiger scoring plays.
 
In the circle, after a rough first inning for Day-Adams she was stellar, retiring eight Judges in a row between the third and fifth innings. She allowed only one hit after the third inning and struck out eight on 130 pitches.
 
Game 2 – L, 13-5
 
It looked to be deja vu for the Tigers, allowing three first-inning runs to the Judges. They slowly crawled their way back until Brandeis erupted for an eight-run fifth inning.
 
At the time Oxy trailed by one, 3-2, but starting pitcher Justice Tiberi worked into a jam and Harding's relief success from Sunday failed to carry over to Tuesday as the senior allowed five-straight hits before leaving the game recording no outs.
 
Oxy's bats never faltered as the Tigers answered with three runs in the bottom half of the inning to stave a run-rule loss. Doebler, down to the Tigers' last out, ripped a two-RBI double down the left field line. The following batter, Evelyn Lorch, smacked a two-bagger of her own to bring home Doebler, but the Tigers' offense would end there.
 
With the split, the Tigers moved to 4-3 on the season. A tough test over the weekend as Oxy faces Redlands for a single game Friday on the road and a doubleheader at home Saturday, February 22.