GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- The Missouri Tigers couldn’t get anything going on offense.
Missouri managed just two hits Saturday in dropping a 4-0 decision to the Arkansas Razorbacks in the title game of the SEC Softball Tournament.
Missouri, who had thrown three straight shutouts to advance to the championship game, allowed single runs to Arkansas in the first and second innings.
The Razorbacks turned three singles into their run in the first. Arkansas led off the second with a triple before scoring on a later single.
Arkansas (44-9) plated its other two runs in the fifth on a leadoff walk, a single, a throwing error and a wild pitch.
Missouri managed just two hits in the game, both by Jenna Laird.
She led off the top of the first inning with a single, but was stranded at first. In the third, Laird hit a two-out single and advanced to second on a wild pitch before a strikeout ended the inning.
Laurin Krings took the loss for the Tigers, pitching one-plus innings. She allowed a run on three hits. Megan Schumacher pitched the next three innings, giving up three runs on eight hits and a walk. Jordan Weber pitched the final two innings, giving up one walk. The three Missouri pitchers did not record a strikeout.
Laird, Krings and Weber were selected to the all-tournament team.
Missouri (35-20), who also finished second in the SEC Tournament in 2013, will find out its NCAA Tournament fate today. The softball selection show will begin at 6 p.m. (ESPN2). A total of 64 teams will be selected, with the 16 seeds to be regional hosts of four-team fields.