Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 (Saint Leo, Fla.) – The Missouri S&T Lady Miner softball team dropped a pair of games on Friday in its 2013 season opener to eighth ranked Tampa 6-0 and the host Saint Leo Lions 10-2 in six innings.

In the opener on Friday the Lady Miners ran into a tough to handle pitcher in Kayla Cox. Cox, the former Atlantic Coast Conference Freshman of the Year, threw her second no-hitter of the season and first perfect game. She struck out 18 S&T hitters and didn't allow a ball to leave the infield. Kyra Slemp (Roeland Park, Kan./Shawnee Mission East) was the closest to breaking up the perfect game lining out to Cox to lead off the seventh.

Tampa (5-1) scored two in the first, added one in the third, two more in the fifth and one in the seventh.

Amber Duncan (Centralia, Mo./Centralia) suffered the loss allowing five runs, four earned, on eight hits in four innings. Becca Strope (Glen Carbon, Ill./Edwardsville) went the rest of the way allowing a run on three hits and had a strikeout.

In the nightcap, the Lady Miners (0-2) picked up their first hit of the season when Andi Davis (Blue Springs, Mo./Archbishop O'Hara ) legged out an infield single. She would go onto steal second, but was thrown out at third to end the inning. In the home half the Lions (7-5) did all their damage after the first two were retired scoring four times.

S&T cut the deficit in half in the top of the third. With one out Dana Lawson (Wildwood, Mo./Lafayette) lined a double over the center fielder's head and then went to third on Jamie Hatlan (Fenton, Mo./Rockwood Summit )'s groundout. Slemp drove her home driving a pitch the opposite way over the fence in right-center for her first collegiate home run.

Saint Leo added a single run in the bottom of the third, two in the fourth, two in the fifth and one more in the sixth for the final margin.

Lawson and Davis each had two hits apiece. Both of Lawson's hits went for extra bases. Taylor Keal (Blue Springs, Mo./Blue Springs South) suffered the loss giving up seven runs, six earned, on 11 hits in 3.1 innings of work.

The Lady Miners are back at again on Saturday morning when it takes on Tarleton State beginning at 8 a.m. (Central Time).