Monday, February 27th, 2006

Piedmont Splits Season-Opening Doubleheader At Emmanuel

The Piedmont College softball team pushed across three runs with two outs in the top of the seventh inning to salvage a season-opening split against Emmanuel College Monday afternoon in Franklin Springs, GA. Emmanuel won the first game 3-1.

With two outs in the seventh, Emily Maxey tripled to right center. May Alves followed with a single to bring home Maxey and to give the Lady Lions a 4-3 lead. After a single by Marissa Harding, Leah Della Torre stepped up and drilled a double to left center and scored Alves and Harding.

Emmanuel rallied in the bottom of the inning after a homerun by Heather Vaughn, but Meredith Ray induced a pair of pop ups to end the game.

In the first game, Emmanuel scored two runs in the first inning and then held on for the 3-1 win.

PC pulled within one when Megan Day was hit by a pitch and pinch runner Ashley Gragg scored on a single by Mandy Fuston, before Emmanuel went back ahead by two in the fifth.

Day led PC at the plate on the afternoon with four hits, while Alves and Harding had three hits. Della Torre and Fuston both had two RBI’s.

Meredith Ray took the hard luck loss in the first game after pitching seven innings and giving up just two earned runs. She came back in the second game and took the win in relief of freshman Lindsay Drevlow.

The Lady Lions will be back in action Wednesday afternoon as they travel to Central, SC to take on Southern Wesleyan University in a 3:00 non-conference doubleheader.