STARKVILLE — At long last, Mississippi State softball’s Southeastern Conference nightmare came to end.
It had been 40 days, and 14 conference games, since the Bulldogs had won a league game. Those streaks ended Friday evening at Nusz Park when MSU beat No. 20 Kentucky, 6-2, to begin its final home series of the season.
Two sacrifice flyouts, one by Shea Moreno and another by Madison Kennedy, a three-run home run by Aquana Brownlee and an RBI double by Nadia Barbary was more than enough offense for the Bulldogs (25-22, 4-14 SEC) to upset the Wildcats.
Kentucky (28-16-1, 8-11 SEC) scored the game’s first run on an RBI single by Kennedy Sullivan in the first inning, then added a sacrifice fly in the sixth, but were mostly shut down by MSU starter Reis Beuerlein, and fellow freshman Josey Marron through most of the night.
The Wildcats finished with eight hits. Beuerlein pitched four innings, allowing six hits, one earned run and striking out five in the winning effort.
The two teams return to Nusz Park Saturday afternoon with first pitch scheduled for 2 p.m. (SECN).
Justin Frommer is the Mississippi State sports reporter for The Dispatch.
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