ATLANTA, Ga. – As has been its Achilles Heel most of the 2023 season, Mississippi University for Women's baseball team had one bad inning in each game at Emory University that resulted in a doubleheader loss. The Owls (3-20) fell to the Eagles (22-10) – the defending University Athletic Association champion and current co-leader in 2023 – by scores of 13-2 and 6-3 at Chappell Park.
 
In both ends of the twinbill, The W can point to a single inning that altered the course of the contest.
 
In game one, it was a 1-1 ball game until the home-half of the third. In that at-bat, however, Emory would send 16 batters to the plate and push across 10 runs.
 
MUW collected six total hits in the run-rule shortened game, five singles and a double by pinch-hitter Colton Neal in the seventh. Neal scored on Jake William's groundout RBI, after the Owls also scored an unearned run in the second.
 
The W starter Robby Canten (1-5) was the pitcher of record. Canten went 3.0 innings and allowed 11 of the Eagles' 14 hits in the game, as well as 11 runs (10 earned).
 
In the second game of the afternoon, MUW built a 3-0 lead after 3 ½ innings and looked to be headed toward a possible upset in the seven-inning game. But the Eagles clawed back with three runs in their half of the third to knot the game. They then added one in the fifth and two in the sixth for some insurance.
 
An RBI single by Avery Benson (1-3) in the first plated Matthew Windham (1-3, 2 runs) with their team's first run. Then, in the third, the Owls added two more, thanks to an RBI double by Austin Telano (1-3) and a groundout RBI by Benson.
 
Tyler Estabrook went 2-for-, as the only Owl with multiple hits.
 
MUW starter Josh Mackey went 3.1 innings and got a no-decision. Reliever Tyler Temple (0-2) went 2.2 frames and took the loss.