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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.
– The University of West Alabama softball team
dropped a pair of contests to Birmingham Southern
College on Tuesday at the BSC Softball Park. The
Panthers claimed game one 10-4 and blanked UWA 3-0 in
the night cap.
The Tigers fell to
28-28 overall on the season while BSC, playing its last
season in NCAA Division I Softball moves to 30-22.
BSC plated the
game’s first run in the fourth on a Grace Stokes
sacrifice fly to right, scoring Lindsey Creighton, who
reached base with a single up the middle off of McGee.
The Tigers had two golden opportunities to scratch the
scoreboard in back-to-back at-bats. In the fourth,
catcher Ashley Edgar led off the inning with a double to
right center but was stranded. After the Panthers took
the lead, UWA’s Angela Smith opened the fifth with a
triple to left field. BSC starter Bethany Reynoldson
struck out the side to end the Tiger threat. Reynoldson
fanned 15 Tigers, a season-high for the Red and White.
BSC added an insurance run in the fifth and sixth.
In the opener, 13
of the 14 runs scored in the contest came in the second
inning. UWA opened the scoring with a four-run top of
the inning. Freshman Valisha Fincher got the frame
started with bunt single followed by Courtney Gordon’s
hit by pitch. Junior Monica Rethwill plated Fincher and
Gordon with an RBI-single over the third base bag.
First baseman Emily White drove in the final two Tiger
runs on a two-run blast over the left center field wall.
BSC sent 13 batters
to the plate in the bottom half of that inning, scoring
nine runs on just six hits. The Panthers had three
run-scoring knocks in the frame and was aided by a
throwing error by UWA’s Kelli Hartley. The five-run
cushion was all BSC hurler Melissa Muehlenfeld needed as
she shut down the Tiger offense the rest of the way,
allowing just one hit after the second inning. Junior
Laura Bagwell laced a hit into right in the UWA fifth.
UWA returns to the
diamond this weekend to close out the 2008 campaign,
hosting North Alabama and No. 3 Alabama in Huntsville.
The UNA affair will get underway on Saturday, April 26,
at 5 p.m. |
