Softball

Lady Bears Split with Point University

Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 The Truett-McConnell softball team split a doubleheader on Tuesday, April 5th at Point University.

 
TMC 4  Point University 5 F/10
In the first game, the Lady Bears played their second extra inning game in the last three contests. However, they did not fare as well as they did in the other extra inning game on Monday. Truett rallied for two runs in the fifth inning after being down 2-0. In the fifth inning, the Lady Bears loaded the bases with back-to-back singles from Alexis Austin and Kaitlynn Hay before Brianna Crawford was hit by a pitch. After a double play was lined into that doubled off Hay, runners were at first and third. Crawford stole second base in order to get into scoring position ahead of the two-run single by Brittany Gee.

Both teams remained scoreless until the extra frames in which both teams exchanged runs in the eighth and ninth innings by scoring their designated runners from second base. However, Truett could not score Darley from third base with one out to push across a tenth inning run which gave the Skyhawks the opportunity to walk-off with the win and take the first game of the afternoon.

Harlee Grogan (9.1, 10 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 2 BB, 8 K) pitched a complete game, but suffered the loss. Kaitlynn Hay (4-5, SB) had four of the Lady Bears' nine hits in the game to lead the offense.
 
TMC 10  Point University 0 F/5
Truett responded well after a heartbreaking loss in the first game with a resounding ten to nothing shutout. The Lady Bears scored three runs in the first inning by taking advantage of four Skyhawks' errors and only one hit by Brittany Gee. Truett kept the pedal down offensively in the second inning by scoring seven runs. Sara Stites had a two-run double in the inning and Alexis Austin hit a three-run homerun to bust the game wide open.

Truett did not score again after the second inning, but Taylor Nix (4.1 IP, 5 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 4 K) and Carson Hagin (2/3 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K) held the Skyhawks off the scoreboard to end the game after only five innings. Nix pitched extremely well through 4 and 1/3 innings as she only allowed five hits while striking out four to earn the win. Hagin came in to record the final two outs and close the game out. Kaitlynn Hay (3-4) and Jennifer Bagby (3-4, 1 R) each had three hits with Sara Stites (2-4, 2B, 1 R, 2 RBI) having two hits as those three combined for eight of the Lady Bears' eleven hits in the win.
 

The Lady Bears are now 20-18 overall on the season and 6-6 in conference play. They will be back in action on Friday when they return home to face St. Andrews University in a doubleheader beginning at 2 PM.

Notes: Alexis Austin hit her first collegiate homerun in game two.
 

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