OXFORD—The Wallace Lady Govs went into the final inning trailing 3-2 to the Shelton State Bucs. They needed one run to tie the game. Instead, they got two.

Rebekah Rowell connected for a two-run double in the top of the seventh, giving Wallace its only lead of the game. Katlyn Conner made that lead stand up in the bottom of the inning  as the Lady Govs held on for a 4-3 win.

"I feel pretty good right now," Rowell said. "I did not have a great weekend to start off. This was a close game. I knew I had to do something for my team this weekend so I did the best I could. I had a triple earlier and the double put ahead. My teammates were behind me so this feels pretty good."

Rowell said she went up to the plate with a plan.

"The pitcher had been throwing me outside all game long. So I knew she was about to come outside. So I just set myself up to hit that."

With this win, Wallace was able to salvage one of the four games they played in the Oxford Tournament. Earlier in the day, the Lady Govs fell to McLennan 13-2.

"On the day, one inning was just a disaster," Wallace coach David Dews said. "The rest of the time we played competitive ball. One bad inning doesn't represent the whole thing of what I was looking for. I thought we played a lot of good innings."

Shelton took the initial lead in the bottom of the second inning when they scored two runs, But Wallace bounced back in the top of third to tie the game. With one out, Rowell hit a triple to right field. That was immediately followed by RBI singles from Elly Castle and Ella Houston, knotting the game at 2-2.

Shelton retook the lead in the bottom of the third. That came on an RBI single from Natalie Liner. The score stayed that way until the seventh inning.

That's when Lana Carpenter led off with a double. The ball was just off the tip of the left fielder's glove. Then with two outs, Libby Buchanan was hit by a pitch. Rowell brought both of them home with her game-winning hit.

There's not a whole lot that can be said in the Lady Govs favor in their first game of the day. Playing against McLennan, Wallace gave up 11 runs in the top of the first inning. The game was pretty much over at that point. The Lady Govs scored two runs late in the contest to make the final score 13-2.

The Wallace runs came on an RBI groundout from Erin Curry in the fourth, and an RBI ground out from Rowell in the fifth. The game ended after five innings due to the run-rule.