ROLLA, Mo. – With the opening weekend of play in the books, Missouri S&T's softball team heads back to the road for another six-game weekend as it will play in the Blue Bridge Battle in Evansville, Ind.

The three-day event was originally slated to take place in Owensboro, Ky., but was moved across the river to Evansville due to construction taking place around the facility the tournament was to take place at.  All six of S&T's games will take place at the Deaconess Sports Park, three of which will be against teams S&T faced in its opening weekend of play in the Music City Invitational in Smyrna, Tenn.

Missouri S&T went 2-4 during that first weekend of action, winning games in come-from-behind manner against Findlay and Tiffin.  The Miners also dropped a trio of one-run decisions in Tennessee, two of them to the teams they will face on the first day of the event, Ashland and Cedarville.

Elizabeth Viox (Glen Carbon, Ill./Edwardsville) had a good start to the season as she had hits in nine of her 23 at-bats (.391 average), while Rachel Smith (Monroe City, Mo./Monroe City R-1) hit .389 in the six contests and reached base 10 times.  Hannah Antzoulatos (Plainfield, Ill./Joliet Catholic Academy) drove in six runs during the weekend, three of them coming on a bases-loaded triple in the win over Tiffin when S&T overcame a six-run deficit.

Chloe Saltijeral (North Aurora, Ill./Rosary) also finished the first weekend right at the .300 mark at the plate and drove in the go-ahead run in the win over Tiffin with a sacrifice fly in the top of the seventh.  S&T's other win came in walk-off fashion when Baylee Jobson (Marceline, Mo./Marceline RV) drove in the game-winner in the bottom of the seventh to complete the win over Findlay.

In the circle, all four S&T pitchers saw action during the opening weekend and combined for a 5.34 earned run average.  Julia Kanoy (Hamilton, Mo./Penney) recorded 17 strikeouts in 16 1/3 innings as she started three of the six contests.

ABOUT THE OPPONENTS:  S&T will face Ashland at 10 a.m. to begin play Friday prior to taking on Cedarville immediately afterwards.  Both teams picked up their only win in their four games in Tennessee with identical 5-4s win over the Miners.

Davis & Elkins and tournament host Kentucky Wesleyan will make up the opposition on Saturday starting with the game with 1-6 Davis & Elkins at 2 p.m.  The host Panthers will bring a 2-8 record into the weekend event.

Missouri S&T will close out the weekend by facing Northwood, who is 4-1 with the only loss coming to Harding in Smyrna last weekend and Trevecca Nazarene, who handed S&T a 9-1 loss on the opening day of the season.  The Trojans are 3-3 on the season.