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Winner Carson-Newman C-N 12-3
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Team 1 2 3 4 5 R H E
West Virginia State WVSU 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 3
Carson-Newman C-N 0 1 8 0 X 9 7 0

W: Sara King (7-1) L: Murphy, Kasey (0-3)

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Winner King KING 5-3
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King KING 0 0 1 2 4 0 0 4 11 9 3
West Virginia State WVSU 1 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 7 10 2

W: Nikole Counts (2-1) L: Walker, Emilee (0-1)

Game Recap: Softball | | James Garcia, Sports Information Director

Yellow Jackets falter twice on second day of Eagle Invitational

JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. – The West Virginia State University softball team was defeated in both games on the second day of the Eagle Invitational. The Yellow Jackets were shutout, 9-0, by Carson-Newman in the first game before forcing extra innings only to suffer a loss, 11-7, to King in the second game.

Postgame Records
WVSU: 1-5
KING: 5-3
C-N: 13-3

Top Jackets
  • Sophomore Lindsey Phares hit 5-for-8 (.625) on the day with a double and a run scored.
  • Fellow sophomore Tori Lambert had a 3-RBI double and two-run homer in the second game.

Game 1: C-N 9, WVSU 0, Final/5
  • Shortstop Lindsey Phares went 2-for-3 with two singles.
  • WVSU tallied six hits but none went for extra bases.
  • Pitcher Emily Moore was put in a tough spot when she entered the game halfway through the third inning, but she did well to allow only two hits and one earned run. Moore also registered two strikeouts in her 1.2 innings pitched.
Quick Recap

West Virginia State left runners on the corners in the top of the third and the bases loaded in the top of the fourth. Those were the closest instances that WVSU came to scoring in the game. 

Carson-Newman scored on a wild pitch in the bottom of the second, 1-0. The Eagles then tacked on eight runs in the third inning to put the game out of reach. When no runs were scored by WVSU in the top of the fifth, the eight-run rule came into effect.

Game 2: KING 11, WVSU 7, Final/8
  • Phares went 3-for-5 with a double and a run scored.
  • Catcher Tori Lambert drove in five runs off a homerun and a double.
  • West Virginia State's two errors were costly with four unearned runs as a result.
Quick Recap

Emele Clark started off the bottom of the first with a triple and ended up scoring on a fielding error, 1-0. King then tied it in the top of the third with an RBI-triple, 1-1. 

Two unearned runs were plated by the Tornado in the top of the fourth off a single, 3-1. Lambert's two-run homer tied it back up in the bottom of the fourth, 3-3.

A grand slam by King in the fifth inning nearly put the game out of reach, 7-3. No runs were plated by either team until the bottom of the seventh. Lambert's double in that half inning cleared the bases to bring the Yellow Jackets back to within one run, 7-6. Kerrigan Moore was then able to score after pinch running for Lambert and advancing bases twice on wild pitches, 7-7.

The Tornado made the comeback obsolete when they tacked on four runs in the top of the eighth. WVSU was unable to get any of those runs back in the bottom half of the inning.

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Glenville State College Invitational: Friday, Feb. 25-Sunday, Feb. 27
 
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