By Justin Peacock, Sports Information Assistant

Box Score Game One:  http://gcbobcats.com/sports/sball/2015-16/boxscores/20160312_vex7.xml

Box Score Game Two:  http://gcbobcats.com/sports/sball/2015-16/boxscores/20160312_dr6y.xml

MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The No. 8 Georgia College Softball (23-5) team split games against Wingate University (13-5) after an 11-0 win and 10-4 defeat. 

Bobcat Softball hosted Wingate on its NFCA (National Fastpitch Coaches Association) StrikeOut Cancer day at the Peeler Complex. Game one on the day's doubleheader was all Bobcats in the 11-0 victory. 

Sophomore leadoff batter Baylee Hall (Hephzibah) was the hero of the day for the Bobcats in game one with six RBIs, including a grand slam. Hall was the first to get things going for the dominant Bobcat offense after lancing a hit up the middle to score Danielle Bernstein (Cumming) and Kristen Brooks (Brunswick) in the second inning.

Once the offense got its early start it couldn't be stopped partially due to Hall's outstanding performance. Her grand slam added four of the six runs that the Bobcats scored in the third. Hannah Coursey (Powder Springs) drew first blood scoring Jessica Hayles (Gordon) who was pinch running for Lacey Najafi (Suwannee). Hall came to the plate with Bernstein, Coursey, and Kristen Brooks (Brunswick) on the bags, and ripped a shot over the fence to pump the Bobcat lead 8-0 in the third.

By the end of the fourth inning the Bobcats had scored 11 runs to edge off Wingate University in the fifth inning due to the run rule. Najafi, Taylor Campbell (Warner Robins) and the reigning Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Player of the Week, Faith Flanders (Dublin) logged the last three runs for Georgia College.

The Bobcat offence shined in game one, but not enough to cast a shadow on the shutout that senior Marissa Boyette (Marietta) pitched and the superb Bobcat defense. Boyette had four strikeouts on 23 batters and finished game one no runs allowed. 

The second game against Wingate was a much different story for the Bobcats.

Junior Carly Lewis (Seymour, Tennessee) and the Bobcats found themselves in a deep hole after Wingate went up 7-0 by the end of the second inning, partially in thanks to the Bulldog's first basemen who cranked a three-run home run in the second. 

Georgia College attempted a valiant comeback with RBIs from Flanders and Najafi in the third, and a run in the seventh, but the Bobcats were never able to slow down the Bulldog offence.

They tried everything to climb out of the score deficit, from bringing freshman Brooke Taylor (Powder Springs) and Boyette back to the circle, but they never could topple Wingate.

The Bobcats are back in action in doubleheader play this Wednesday, March 16 at West Georgia University. The first pitch is scheduled for 4 p.m.

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