ATHENS, W.Va. – The Concord University softball team picked up a sweep over Davis & Elkins Saturday afternoon in Mountain East Conference play at the CU Softball Field as the Mountain Lions won 15-7 and 6-5.
Concord improves to 16-12 overall and is now 4-4 against MEC foes. Davis & Elkins is also 4-4 in the league and falls to 14-11 this spring.
Game 1: Concord 15 – Davis & Elkins 7
Concord's explosive offense needed just five innings to dispatch of the Senators in game one.
Davis & Elkins jumped out on the Mountain Lions with a four-run first inning. However, CU was quick to answer with three runs in the bottom of the first. Freshman infielder
Kendall Morgan scored on a two-out wild pitch to open the scoring for Concord. And sophomore pitcher/infielder
Madison Hollis kept the inning going with a walk. After the two-out base on balls, sophomore infielder
Lacie Lewis launched her team-best fifth home run of the season.
The Maroon and Gray tied the game in the second inning, 4-4, setting the stage for a huge bottom of the third.
After a Morgan single to lead things off, junior infielder
Courtney Raines blasted a home run to left center field to give CU its first lead of the afternoon. Later in the inning, senior outfielder
Jolie Privett connected on a two-run single with the bases loaded.
A throwing error by the Senators, also with the bases loaded, allowed two more runs to score taking the lead to 10-4. Up for a second time in the frame, Raines doubled to the left center gap. And the 11-run third was capped by back-to-back RBI singles by Lewis and junior infielder
Kassidy Garvey.
D&E scored once in the fourth and threatened to extend the game in the fifth inning as it scored two runs and had the bases loaded when freshman pitcher
Josi Ervin induced a groundout to finish off the win in five innings.
Lewis was 3-for-3 with three RBI. Raines drove in four runs as part of a 2-for-4 day. Junior utility
Kylee Stacy added two hits, and Privett notched two RBI.
Hollis (7-5) tossed 4.2 innings as she gave up six earned runs.
Game 2: Concord 6 – Davis & Elkins 5
The Mountain Lions rallied from a 4-0 third-inning deficit as they recorded their second walk-off win of the season.
Held to one hit through its first three at-bats, Concord's offense found its groove in the fourth.
Hollis got the scoring started with an RBI double to center field that plated senior outfielder
Imani Campbell. The next batter, Morgan, blasted her first career home run to left field to cut the margin to 4-3.
The Senators had a response by getting a run across in the top of the fifth, and that's where the advantage would stay until the bottom of the sixth.
Three straight batters reached with one out as Hollis and sophomore catcher/utility
Kayla Sholter singled around a D&E error. On Sholter's base hit to right field, Hollis came in to score. With Morgan representing the tying run, she was able to score on a bunt by sophomore catcher/outfielder
Morgan Gleason.
The Mountain Lions stranded the go-ahead run at third, but retired the side in order in the top of the seventh to set the stage for the walk off.
Stacy led of the frame with a bunt single and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt. After D&E got the second out of the inning via a strikeout, Hollis came through with a line drive single box through the middle to score Stacy for the game-winning run.
The base hit capped a 3-for-4 day for Hollis as she drove in two runs. Morgan also had two RBI as she finished 2-for-3 with two runs scored.
Senior pitcher
Nancy-Jo Roberts (7-5) tossed 4.1 innings of relief as she allowed one unearned run on two hits.
Winners of three straight, CU welcomes West Virginia Wesleyan to the CU Softball Field 1:00 p.m. Sunday for a doubleheader.
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