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ATHENS, W.Va - The Concord University softball team heads to the northern panhandle of West Virginia for games against West Liberty 1:00 p.m. Saturday before traveling to Wheeling Jesuit 12:00 p.m. Sunday
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RECORDS
Concord's record heading into the matchup is 18-20, with the Mountain Lions going 4-2 in its last six games.
WLU is 11-15 this season, also going 4-2 in its last six contests.
WJU is 13-13 this season and has won four of its last six games.
MOUNTAIN LION NOTES
Concord maintained a two-game lead for the fourth and final playoff spot in the southern division of the Mountain East Conference after splitting with West Virginia State and Charleston last weekend.
The Mountain Lions now own a 7-7 record in conference play this season, while West Virginia State is 5-9.
Concord will play its first conference games outside of the southern division this season against West Liberty, a team that the Mountain Lions split with in Athens last season.
In game one, a 3-2 loss, senior outfielder
Lauren Lewis provided both of Concord's RBI on a single and a double in the first and seventh inning, respectively. Both runs were scored by senior shortstop
Alayna Furr.
The Mountain Lions rallied in game two for an 8-0 win.
Lewis provided two more RBI in the second inning of that game, this time courtesy of a home run down the right field line. The homer scored Furr once again and gave the Mountain Lions a 3-0 lead after Furr scored an additional run on a wild pitch in the first inning.
Sophomore pitcher/outfielder
Abby Beatty had a strong outing in both the circle and at the plate.
The Roanoke, Virginia native provided a sacrifice fly in the third inning of game two before smashing a bases-clearing double to left field in the fifth to score sophomore pitcher/utility
Aarron Ward, junior third baseman
Alycea Watson and
Kristen Rose.
Lewis picked up her third RBI of the day and fifth of the doubleheader with an RBI single to score Beatty shortly afterwards.
Beatty also pitched five innings while allowing just three hits and striking out two in a complete-game shut-out in the circle.
The Mountain Lions also split with the Cardinals last season, falling in game one 2-1 before defeating the Cardinals 4-3 in game two.
Lewis provided the first RBI in game two in the third inning with an RBI groundout before Watson singled through the right side to score Furr and sophomore outfielder
Lindsey Stahl.
The Mountain Lions are 9-18 all-time against Wheeling Jesuit and 11-28 overall against West Liberty.
Concord has split the last four doubleheaders against the Cardinals, and has split four out of the last five doubleheaders against West Liberty.
Concord last swept the Hilltoppers during the 2013 season.
After splitting four games in its trip last weekend to the Kanawha Valley, Concord maintained a winning record in true road games this season.
Concord joins Shepherd, Charleston, and West Virginia Wesleyan as the only teams in the Mountain East Conference with a winning record overall in road contests.
All three other teams either lead or are tied for the lead in their respective divisions.
Furr has overtaken the lead in the Mountain East Conference in batting average, passing Tori Pogue of West Virginia Wesleyan.
Furr passed the 60-hit mark against Charleston this weekend, and now has 62 hits on the year.
The Lovettsville, Virginia native joins Lewis as the only players in Concord history to have accumulated multiple 60 hit seasons in their career.
Furr's 62 in 2017 hits are already tied for the fourth most in a single season in Concord history.
The senior shortstop needs just 13 more hits to break her own record of 74 hits in a season.
Freshman second baseman/shortstop
Jenna Witt is tied for third in the Mountain East Conference in doubles with 10 this season.
One of those doubles came against the Yellow Jackets of West Virginia State on April 2 to help Concord win 9-3 in Institute.
Witt also homered in the game to help the Harpers Ferry, West Virginia native pick up a career-high three RBI.
Freshman pitcher/outfielder
Darby Fitzpatrick is 10
th in the Mountain East in ERA at 2.48.
Also joining Fitzpatrick with an ERA under three for the season are senior pitcher
Allie Reid (2.94), and freshman pitcher/ first baseman
Rachel Pritchard (2.98).
Reid picked up the 36
th win of her career in game two against West Virginia State to break the all-time wins record at Concord.
Watson's six-RBI performance against Winston-Salem State continues to be the only incident in which an MEC player has driven in six runs this season.
Concord is second in the MEC in fielding percentage at .964.
The Mountain Lions have turned 23 double plays this season, 12 more than any other team in the conference.
Furr (217 hits) needs only 12 hits to break the all-time record at Concord, while Lewis (209 hits) is 20 hits away from passing
Alyssa Morris for first all-time at 228.
Lewis is also 20 RBI away from tying Morris as the all-time leader in that category.
Stahl is hitting .381 in conference play, joining Witt (.313) and Furr (.463), as the only players on Concord batting .300 or higher in conference contests.
The Brownsburg, Indiana native has hit safely six games in a row while driving in four runs and picking up eight hits over that time span.
Reid's ERA drops to under two for conference games, with the Lovettsville, Virginia native carrying a 1.78 ERA in Mountain East Conference contests.
SCOUTING WEST LIBERTY
West Liberty has won five of eight contests at home this season, and has won two in a row overall.
The Hilltoppers went 1-3 Concord's divisional rivals Charleston and West Virginia State earlier this season.
WLU ranks last in batting average in the Mountain East at .217.
Sydney Bennington has started all 26 games for WLU, batting .367. Also batting over .300 for the Hilltoppers is Charley Troggio at .313.
The Hilltoppers have won four of six after dropping five games in a row.
SCOUTING WHEELING JESUIT
WJU has won four out of its last six games.
Molly Welsh leads the Cardinals in batting average, batting .417 through 26 games this season.
Courtney Rogers has driven in 14 runs to lead WJU in just 15 games started.
Victoria Scott and Welsh have also driven in over 10 runs.
Wheeling Jesuit has lost all four games to MEC South opposition this year, going 0-4 against Charleston and West Virginia State.
The Cardinals are 6-2 at home this year.
