Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 TEMPE, Ariz.- The Western Michigan softball team opened up the 2019 season today in Tempe, Ariz., at the Kajikawa Classic, facing a pair of PAC-12 opponents. The Broncos dropped game one to Utah, 8-2, and fell in game two to No. 12 ranked Arizona State, 8-4.

WMU got behind early against Utah, but gave Arizona State all it could handle in the nightcap. The Broncos led the No. 12 ranked Sun Devils 4-1 through two and a half innings. ASU didn't score the go-ahead run until the bottom of the fifth, before tacking on three runs in the bottom of the sixth. The Sun Devils' final four runs were produced by a solo home run and a three-run home run.

Western Michigan had 13 hits between the two games. Junior outfielder Mackenzie Swinehart finished the day batting .571, going 4-for-7 with an RBI. Junior Kaylen Glenfield, sophomore Sydney Stefanick and freshman Maddie Peters collected two hits apiece. Stefanick, Glenfield and sophomore Samantha Coffel each drove in a run.

Sophomore pitcher Reily Galloway took the loss against Utah, allowing eight runs (five earned) over 4.2 innings. She had one strikeout.

Senior Jordan Kurth started against Arizona State and went 2.0 innings, surrendering three runs and striking out two. Stefanick was the pitcher of record, throwing the final 4.0 innings, giving up five runs and striking out three. Stefanick also threw 1.1 innings of relief in game one.

Western Michigan returns to the Kajikawa Classic tomorrow for a pair of games, facing another PAC-12 opponent in Stanford at 1:30 PM ET, before taking on Cal State Northridge out of the Big West Conference at 7 PM ET. WMU concludes its stay in Arizona on Sunday, playing its fourth PAC-12 team, Oregon State, at 11 AM ET.

FloSoftball will be providing a live stream of the Cal State Northridge game, available here. Live Stats for all of Western Michigan's games at the Kajikawa Classic are available, links are provided on the WMU schedule page.