MARSHALL, TX – After opening NCAA Regional play with a win, UST Softball team took on a powerful No. 1 East Texas Baptist squad in the winner's bracket. Despite their early fight, the Celts ultimately dropped the contest 13-3 at Taylor Field on the campus of East Texas Baptist University.

Jaelyn Simmons got UST on the board in the first inning, scoring on a wild pitch to even the game at 1-1. However, the Tigers responded quickly in the second with four runs, including a two-RBI single to take a 5-1 lead.

Simmons continued to lead offensively in the fifth with a single up the middle that scored Gabby Davila, making it 6-2. But ETBU sealed the game with a dominant seven-run seventh inning.

Chloe Bennett added one final run in the bottom of the seventh with an RBI single, but the Celts came up short.

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St. Thomas moves to the elimination bracket and will face the winner of Marymount and Belhaven on Friday, May 16 at 4 p.m. as they continue their NCAA tournament run in Marshall, Texas.