Box Score MEMPHIS, Tenn. ---- A potential seventh-inning comeback fell just short as Samford dropped a tough 3-1 road contest Tuesday night in Memphis.
 
Samford (9-14, 1-5 SoCon) had opportunities to score but could not capitalize, stranding eight runners on base.  Alex Adams went 1-3 at the plate, earning a hit in her first at-bat to extend her current hitting streak to six games.  Three of Samford's six hits were doubles while Abby Adams drove in the Bulldogs' lone run off a sixth-inning single.  Shelby Scott (0-4) earned the loss in the circle, throwing 2.0 innings while allowing three earned runs while Caitlin Bice threw 4.0 shutout innings in relief, only allowing one hit.
 
Memphis (12-17, 3-3 C-USA) earned all three of their runs in the second inning, which proved enough to win the close contest.  Ijiah Hargrove and Kelly Braman each earned a pair of hits with Hargrove driving in two of the Tigers' three runs.  Ellen Roberts (6-11) went the distance in the circle to earn the complete-game win.
 
In the bottom of the second with one out, a pair of hits and a walk in between loaded the bases for Memphis and they drove home the game's opening run off a line-drive sacrifice fly to Caroline Seay in right field.  The speedy Hargrove followed with a two-run triple to the left-field gap, extending the Memphis lead to 3-0 with two away.  A strikeout ended the inning with Samford in an early three-run hole.
 
In the top of the fourth, Alex Adams drew a leadoff walk and Shelby Scott was only a few feet shy of a home run as a double caromed off the left-field wall to put two in scoring position with nobody out.  A flyout to shallow center was too close to score Arica Dykes, pinch-running at third, and back-to-back popups left the two in scoring position as the Bulldogs failed to capitalize on the scoring opportunity.
 
Megan Dowdy led off the top of the sixth with a double to shallow left that was misplayed by the Memphis left fielder and, later with two outs, Abby Adams drove her home with a single to left field and advanced to second on an error to make the score 3-1.  Misha Aldridge was walked as a pinch hitter but a flyout ended the inning though the Bulldogs were now within two runs after 5 1/2 innings.
 
Memphis went three up, three down in the bottom of the sixth as the Bulldogs headed into the seventh still trailing by two.  Callie Brister hit a sharp two-out double down the left-field line and Megan Dowdy reached off an infield error to put runners at the corners.  A hard-hit fly ball to center field hung up just enough for the third out, stranding the potential tying run on first as the Bulldogs fell, 3-1.
 
Tomorrow, Samford heads to Oxford, Mississippi to face the Ole Miss Rebels (18-15, 1-5 SEC).  First pitch is set for 6 p.m. CT.