CHICKASHA, Okla. — The LSUA softball team moved one step away from the NAIA Tournament Chickasha Bracket championship finals Wednesday but was knocked out of the elimination round by the same team that put the Generals there.

LSUA opened Wednesday with a 7-1 victory over Baker (Kansas), racing to a 5-0 lead after two innings. But in the Generals’ second game, the elimination round final, they fell 5-2 to Midland (Nebraska). Midland topped LSUA 2-0 Monday in the opening game of the tourney behind a no-hit pitching performance.

The Generals stayed alive by rapping 11 hits against Baker. Haley Fontenot, Bailey Layton and Madi Baker – the top three hitters in the LSUA lineup – each delivered two hits, with Fontenot driving in two runs while Layton and Baker each plated one.

Kilee Moody also drove in a pair for LSUA.

Baker made three errors and those resulted in all of the winners’ runs being unearned. Baker got on the board in the fifth inning, but LSUA answered right away with two more runs and cruised in as Taylor Spencer went the distance and scattered seven hits to get the decision in the circle.

Midland (44-11) scored three in its third inning and added two in the fifth to open a big lead. But LSUA battled back, scoring two in the sixth inning on a two-out double by Haylee Ladner.

After Aliyah Rincon (28-7) held LSU hitless Monday, she gave up seven hits Wednesday – two apiece by Baker, Amber Giddens and Destiney Jones.