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by Alex Cooper, sports information student assistant
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Georgia College softball team (1-1, 0-0 PBC) opened the 2015 season with a split doubleheader against Queens University (1-1, 0-0 SAC) at the Bobcat Blast, winning 4-2 before falling 9-8.
The first game saw junior Marisa Boyette (Marietta) throw a complete game, allowing just one earned run, while striking out seven Royals. Sophomore Faith Flanders (Dublin) provided three hits and one RBI for the Bobcats, who totaled 10 hits in the contest. Freshman twins Hannah and Holland Coursey (Sugar Hill) both drove in one run and junior Kristin Brooks (Brunswick) brought home the fourth.
The final game of the doubleheader was a tough battle, but the Bobcats could not complete the comeback in the final inning. After getting out to a 1-0 lead on a Taylor Campbell (Warner Robins) single in the first inning, Queens would rattle off nine unanswered runs to take a 9-1 lead into the fourth. Georgia College didn't throw in the towel there, as they scored 7 runs of their own over the next three innings to claw back to within one before coming up just short in the seventh. Campbell, Holland Coursey and Frankie Walls (Dahlonega) each tallied three hits in the contest. Walls and sophomore Danielle Bernstein (Cumming) both notched two RBI.
The Bobcats are back in action tomorrow, Feb. 1 as they take on No.2 Valdosta State in the final games of the Bobcat Blast at 2:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at @GCBobcats on Twitter and Facebook for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit GCBobcats.PhotoReflect.com to purchase photo prints from home athletic contests.
