ATHENS, W.Va. – The Concord University softball team swept its final home doubleheader of the season as it downed Point Park, 13-0 and 6-2, Monday afternoon at the CU Softball Field in a pair of Mountain East Conference games.
Concord levels its overall record to 23-23 on the year and is 12-14 in the MEC. Point Park is now 11-33 on the year and 3-21 against MEC teams.
Game 1: Concord 13 – Point Park 0
On the strength of three first-inning home runs, CU put up a seven spot and cruised to a game one win.
After a leadoff single by junior infielder
Kendall Morgan, senior infielder
Lacie Lewis crushed a two-run home run to left field that snuck inside the foul pole. Two pitches later, senior pitcher/infielder
Madison Hollis made it back-to-back home run as she blasted her seventh home run of the year to center field. The first six batters reached in the inning for the Mountain Lions as senior catcher
Kayla Sholter and freshman catcher/infielder
Hannah Niten both had RBI doubles later in the frame.
The rally was capped by senior outfielder
Alina Giles smashing her fifth home run of the year, a two-run shot, after a 12-pitch at-bat with two outs.
Concord scored twice in the second on a two-run single by sophomore utility
Kristy McCord.
The Mountain Lions reached a season-high 13 runs with four more tallies in the third inning.
An RBI double by Morgan pushed the 10
th run across before Lewis came up and hit a high drive over the left field fence for her third career multi-home run contest. The homer was a three-run blast that scored Giles and Morgan.
In the circle, Hollis (14-8) tossed her fourth complete-game shutout of the season by pitching all five innings. She allowed three hits and struck out two. She only needed 52 pitches to roll through the PPU lineup.
Lewis was 3-for-3 with two home run and a career-high five RBI. Hollis, McCord, Morgan and Sholter were all 2-for-3 in the contest. Giles threw in a 2-for-2 day at the plate. Eight of the season-high 14 hits for CU were for extra-bases (four home runs, four doubles).
Game 2: Concord 6 – Point Park 2
A two-run triple by Morgan broke a 1-1 tie in the fifth inning as CU scored five runs in its final two at-bats of the day.
Giles singled with one out in the fifth inning before sophomore utility
Blake Jamerson drew an eight-pitch walk to keep the inning alive two batters later. On a 1-0 pitch, Morgan drilled her MEC-leading eighth triple of the year into the right center gap that brought in both runners.
PPU drew back within a run in the top of the sixth with an RBI groundout, but the Mountain Lion offense went right back to work in the bottom of the inning.
Lewis led off the inning with her third home run of the day, and eighth for the season. And four pitches later, Hollis made it back-to-back homers for the duo for the second time with her eighth long ball of the spring.
Giles recorded a sacrifice later in the inning to bring in McCord.
Sophomore pitcher/outfielder
Reghan Hintz retired the side in order in the seventh, including Giles denying Point Park's Cam Mann of extra bases with a catch at the fence in left field to end the game.
Hintz (8-13) gave up two runs on six hits while tallying three strikeouts. Six Mountain Lions had a hit in the game. McCord registered a double. Morgan had the three-base hit while Hollis and Lewis both had home runs. Giles and junior pitcher
Josi Ervin each had a single in the contest.
The Mountain Lions finish the regular season with four games on the road, starting at West Virginia Wesleyan 3:00 p.m. Thursday.
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