FARGO, N.D.- The 2015 season for the IUPUI softball team came to an end on Saturday as the Jaguars dropped a pair of one-run decisions to North Dakota State and South Dakota eliminating them from the Summit League Tournament.
 
IUPUI (33-18) received two great pitching performances from its All-Summit League pitchers in Brooke Boetjer and Emili Escamilla as the duo combined to give up just two earned runs on the day, but the opposing pitchers – Krista Menke from NDSU and Rachel Cue from USD – did just enough to emerge with 3-2 and 1-0 victories, respectively.
 
The Jags were pitted against North Dakota State in the winner's bracket after a come-from-behind victory over South Dakota on Friday that saw them score seven runs in the seventh inning to win 11-9 over the Coyotes. IUPUI looked to continue that momentum against the Summit League Pitcher of the Year in Menke, but it was the Bison - who were the visitors in the scorebook - that struck first scoring unearned runs off Boetjer in the first and the third innings to take a 2-0 lead.
 
IUPUI's best opportunity to score early came in the fourth when Eryn Dillon doubled to give the Jaguars their first runner in scoring position on the day, but a soft ground out to third ended that threat.
 
NDSU added to its lead in the third on a RBI triple to push its cushion to 3-0, but IUPUI finally was able to score on Menke in the sixth to make things interesting. Ali Mosier was hit by a pitch to start the inning and two batters later Roni Patterson blasted a two-run homer to center to inch the Jags back within one, 3-2. A Dillon single and a walk to Taylor Chitwood kept the pressure on in the sixth, but a fielder's choice kept IUPUI behind by one on the scoreboard entering the seventh.
 
Boetjer gave up a pair of singles to start the seventh, but she dug in and forced three fly outs to give her offense one more chance. The Jags were able to get the tying run on base when Mosier singled with two outs, but a strike out during the next at-bat finished off the 3-2 win for the Bison and dropped the Jaguars into the losers bracket where they would take on the Coyotes – the team they stunned less than 24 hours earlier.
 
Unlike the previous day's outing, this match-up between the Coyotes and the Jags was a pitcher's duel from the start. Escamilla was able to get out of a two on, one out jam in the first by getting a ground ball double play and a bases loaded, two-out jam in the third to keep the Coyotes off the scoreboard, but it was in the fourth when the Coyotes took a lead on a Katie Cochran lead-off homer to right.
 
 Unfortunately for the Jags, Cue kept the team that had rallied against her the day before off balance all game by not allowing a single Jag to get to second base. Escamilla gave up just one hit after the Cochran home run, but Cue allowed just a single and a walk in the final three innings to send the Coyotes to the 1-0 win.
The Jags finished the season with a 33-18 record, with the 33 wins serving as a new Division-I era program record for wins in a season. Mosier set a new single-season school record for home runs with 14, Boetjer set a new single-season school-record for wins in a season with 21 and Dillon set the new single-season RBI record with 43. Those were just a few of the school records broken during a memorable 2015 campaign.