The Auburn softball team dropped its eighth-straight game Sunday, losing 7-6 to Missouri in the Tigers' second straight sweep.
"You can't waste opportunities," said Auburn head coach Clint Myers. "You can't not know what you're doing."
Auburn found themselves in a hole early when, in the top of the third inning, Missouri first basemen Kelsea Roth hit a grand slam off Auburn right-hander Lexi Davis.
That same inning, Davis was struck hard in the chest by a line-drive comebacker.
"She didn't come out [after she was hit]," Myers said. "How many times are you gonna see that?"
Davis did eventually come out in the next inning, replaced by Hillary Mavromat.
Auburn put four of its own runs on the board in the fourth, two of them coming from a first basemen Madi Gipson home run.
Missouri added one more in the 5th, with Auburn notching another in the 6th to tie the game headed into the last inning.
With Mavromat still on the mound, Missouri hit two solo home runs in the top of the seventh to 7-5 lead into the bottom of the seventh.
Auburn was able to get one run back, but the comeback effort ended when Madi Gipson grounded to short for the third out.
Myers said that the pressure of the losing streak isn't effecting the team.
"I don't think that has anything to do with it." Myers said. "We've just got to kick ourselves in the butt, and say 'let's go' and get it done."
Myers also said that the team is playing as well as it can right now.
"We're a better team than we've played," Myers said. "You can't say they gave up or had no heart."
Mavromat took the loss for the Tigers and dropped to 1-2 on the season.
The loss drops Auburn to 31-12 on the season, after starting 31-5, one win more than the Tigers had at season's end last year.
On Wednesday, the team will head to Montgomery to take on rival No.2 Alabama.
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