TIGERVILLE, S.C. | Georgia College & State University and North Greenville University split a non-conference softball doubleheader Tuesday (March 25) afternoon at Jan McDonald Field.
North Greenville rallied for 6-5 win in the opener, while GCSU scored early and often as they captured the nightcap 9-1 in five innings.
With the split, the Bobcats improved to 16-14, while the Trailblazers improved to 21-13. GCSU steps back into Peach Belt Conference play Friday (March 28) when they travel to Augusta, Georgia, for a 5 p.m. game at Augusta University..
The Bobcats scored three runs apiece in the first, second and fourth innings in the nightcap.
GCSUÂ opened up a 3-0 lead in the first.
Karlie Gutierrez had a bases-loaded walk, before
Eliza Kuhne added an RBI single up the middle.
Kacie Wiggins added a sacrifice fly to close out the inning.
The Bobcats added three more runs an inning later on a
Emily Hutcheson ground out and a two-run homer to left field by Gutierrez. It was her third long ball of 2025.
Gutierrez had a two-run single up the middle to jump start the fourth inning and Kuhne had a run-scoring infield single.
Hutcheson had three hits for the Bobcats, while
Kam Caldwell, Gutierrez, who accounted for five RBI, and Kuhne each tallied two hits.Â
Annalise Knop (2-2) earned the complete-game win as she allowed just four hits and struck out three.
GCSU took a 5-4 lead with three runs in the fifth inning of the opener. Kuhne singled up the middle for the first run, while
Lauren Rule added a two-run single to left.
The Trailblazers rallied for two runs in the bottom of the sixth to reclaim the lead at 6-5. Reliever Owyen Lyall (1-2) wiggled out of a jam in the seventh to earn the win. GCSU got two runners on base, but Lyall recorded the final two outs on ground outs.
Reliver
Tiffany Caban (7-3) absorbed the loss.
Kuhne and
Sydney Lancaster had two hits apiece for GCSU, while Kuhne and Rule each drove in two runs.
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