INDIANAPOLIS – The Butler softball team used a 3-1 game-three victory over Georgetown to clinch the BIG EAST series on Sunday. The Bulldogs (17-30, 11-7 BIG EAST) used two home runs in the sixth inning to break a 1-1 tie with the Hoyas (16-30, 9-12 BIG EAST).
 
Butler remains fourth in the conference standings with one series to play (at Seton Hall) and has clinched one of the six spots in the BIG EAST Tournament.
 
How It Happened
In the bottom of the first, Ella White drew a walk and advanced to second on a fielder's choice. Teagan O'Rilley then singled up the middle and White scored when the Georgetown catcher was called for obstructing home. The Bulldogs' 1-0 lead held through the second inning.
 
In the third, the Hoyas advanced a runner to second base. A Butler error on an infield hit allowed the runner to tag home, tying the game at one.
 
In the fourth, a drive to left field by Monique Hoosen was inches short of going over the wall. The Georgetown left fielder, Cameron Kondo, got a glove on it but could not make the catch. Hoosen was stranded on second.
 
Rain showers halted the game in the middle of the fifth inning for about 75 minutes.
 
After play resumed, the Bulldogs took the lead with a two-run sixth inning. Paige Dorsett connected on a solo home run to center field, and, two batters later, Hoosen added another over the right field fence.
 
In the top of the seventh, the Hoyas had a runner on first, and the potential tying run at the plate, when a brief hail storm halted the game once again. When play resumed, a deep fly ball to left from Georgetown's Morgan Zamora was reined in by Hoosen to end the game.
 
Rylyn Dyer (4-6) started for Butler in the circle and earned a complete-game win. In 7.0 innings, she allowed one unearned run on four hits and two walks while striking out three.
 
Bulldog Bits

• Monique Hoosen's home run was her 13^th of the season and the 26^th of her career. She is now tied for the most home runs by a Bulldog in a single season (Erin Falkenberry – 2011), and she is second on Butler's all-time list for career home runs.
• Hoosen's double was her sixth of the season and the twelfth of her career.
• Paige Dorsett's home run was her seventh of the season and the eighth of her career.
• Rylyn Dyer's complete-game win was her second of the season.
• Eleven conference victories for Butler are the second most wins since joining the BIG EAST in 2014. Last year's Butler squad went 16-6 in conference play.

Up Next
Butler will complete the regular season with trips to the University of Illinois-Chicago, for a single game on Wednesday, May 3, and then to Seton Hall, for their final conference series from May 5-7.