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Liberal continued to finish games strong Friday in a 5-2 WAC win over Garden City.
The win tied Liberal for third in the WAC with Dodge City. Garden City went 0-8 in the WAC.
Garden City opened with a run in the first to take an early lead and added another run in the fourth.
After knocking off Dodge City in the second game of a double header for their first Western Athletic Conference win of the season, the Lady Redskins had a chance to make it two in a row in a make-up game against Garden City Friday, but Liberal fell short 5-2.
Liberal lost to Garden City earlier in the season in a double header, 7-3 and 14-4. But the Lady Redskins have shown some improvement late in the season by battling teams early before allowing errors to lead to big innings.
After dropping the first game of a double header 9-1, the Lady Redskins rallied for a 17-7 run-rule win in the nightcap.
Dodge City took a 4-0 lead in the second inning, but Liberal cut the lead in half in the bottom half of the inning.
Dodge jumped out 6-2 before the Lady Redskins scored nine runs, all with two outs, in the third and added five more in the fifth to take a 16-7 lead.
Trying to get the ball in the Dodge City net from inside the box proved to be difficult Thursday in the regular season finale for the Lady Redskins, so they decided to shoot from outside. It worked, and the Lady Redskins upset the Western Athletic Conference champion Lady Red Demons 2-1 in double overtime.
After a scoreless first half, the Lady Redskins couldn’t get clean shot on goal for the first 25 minutes of the second half, and the Lady Red defense didn’t allow any breakaway opportunities for Dodge City, either.
The Lady Redskins worked hard to get one goal into the Garden City net Tuesday at Redskin Field in a 1-1 draw.
After giving up a penalty kick in the first half against Garden City, the Lady Red defense didn’t allow another goal the rest of the game.
But the Lady Buffalo defense was just as stingy.
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