The ISU softball team defeated Creighton by a score of 6-3 on Wednesday evening in Omaha, Neb.

The Cyclones (11-22, 0-6 Big 12) snapped a three-game losing streak with Wednesday’s win and will head into this weekend’s series against Texas A&M on a winning note.

“I thought that they played well,” said ISU coach Stacy Gemeinhardt-Cesler. “They took care of business. I think that they should feel good going into practice tomorrow and the game on Friday, for sure.”

Iowa State jumped ahead early on the Bluejays (17-14, 6-3 Missouri Valley), scoring two runs in the top of the first inning thanks to a two-run home run by junior Tori Torrescano, her ninth of the season.

The score would remain a 2-0 ISU lead until the top of the fifth, when the Cyclones were able to push four runs across home plate, all with two outs. ISU junior Erica Miller recorded an RBI single, followed by Torrescano’s 10th home run of the season, which drove in three more Cyclone runs.

Creighton would make a late effort to get back in the game, adding two runs in the sixth inning and one in the seventh, but failed to make the comeback complete.

Torrescano finished the night 2-for-3 with two home runs and five RBIs. She now ranks fourth in the Big 12 in both home runs with 10 and RBIs with 34.

Iowa State received another strong pitching performance from sophomore Taylor Smith, who pitched 5.2 innings and allowed only two runs on six hits and three walks.

“Taylor threw really well,” Gemeinhardt-Cesler said. “I thought she did a great job of maybe not having her best stuff and really still being able to be effective, which is awesome.”

Smith is emerging as one of the Cyclones’ most reliable pitchers, having given up only five earned runs in her last 17.2 innings of work.

Bluejays junior pitcher Sammy Snygg had a solid showing in the pitcher’s circle on Wednesday as well, allowing two earned runs on four hits and four walks in six innings.

It is not very often that a team records more runs than it does hits, but that’s what happened on Wednesday. Despite only recording four hits, the Cyclones were able to put up six runs on the Bluejays. There were a number of reasons for this, the main ones being errors committed and walks allowed by Creighton.

“Those mistakes that they made, we were able to capitalize off those for runs,” Gemeinhardt-Cesler said.