Junior first baseman Lindsey Antone said she went into last night’s Sun Belt Conference matchup expecting two wins.

Antone said the Lady Toppers were shocked that the game didn’t go how they had hoped, as Western dropped both games against Florida Atlantic with game one 4-2 and game two 11-5.

“We definitely didn’t expect this to happen,” Antone said. “We expected to come out and have two wins tonight because they are at the bottom of our conference. But they just took us by surprise. It’s just something we have to learn and go with the flow.”

The two losses put the current Lady Toppers’ losing streak at three games. This streak, which was preceded by a seven game winning streak, started in the third game of the series on Saturday against North Texas in which Western lost 11-6.

Coach Tyra Perry said that the team has played well throughout the season even in the past three games the Lady Toppers have dropped.

“It’s just a growing experience,” Perry said. “We’ve been playing really well. Sometimes we hit rough patches and we’ve just hit one. It’s not at an ideal time obviously, but it’s something that we have got to work through and that’s what we talked about in our huddle. Maybe this is something that will help us in the long run.”

Even though it suffered a sweep in last night’s double-header, Western will have another chance to pick up a win in the remaining game of the series against Florida Atlantic tonight.

Senior third baseman Rebecca Horesky said that the team just has to put last night out of mind to finish the series against the Owls.

“We can’t let this affect us,” Horesky said. “We just have to keep pushing. I think tonight it was just that we had a bad day. Tomorrow we’re coming out brand new ready to go.”

Despite yesterday’s shocking set back, Antone said she believes that tomorrow, the Lady Toppers will pick up momentum for the weekend Sun Belt Conference series in Mobile, Ala., against South Alabama.

“We just have to come out and win one tomorrow,” Antone said. “Hopefully with us winning that, it will give us a good vibe for the weekend. It’s just one of those things you have to put behind you. You can’t take it with you because if we brought all of our losses with us, then we would never win. We’ll be fine.”

The Lady Toppers complete the series against Florida Atlantic at 5 p.m. at the WKU Softball Complex.