LIVINGSTON, Ala. – Seventh-ranked Valdosta State spoiled the University of West Alabama softball team’s senior day, as VSU topped the Tigers 10-2 and 9-0 in Gulf South Conference action on Saturday at the UWA Softball Complex.

The GSC weekend action marks the final appearances for six Tiger seniors – Laura Bagwell, Ashley Edgar, Courtney Gordon, Aubree Hudson, Brittany McGee and Emily White.

VSU (45-6, 19-2 GSC) lived up to its billing as the top offensive team in the GSC, pounding out 18 hits off UWA (39-12, 11-10 GSC) pitching, including three home runs in the opener.  VSU spurted out to a 5-0 lead in its first at bat of the opening contest and rode the heels of starter Holly Satterfield en route to the eight-run win.  Satterfield allowed just five UWA hits and a pair of runs in a complete game performance.  Lauren Mills’ posted her fourth home run in the last three games with an opposite field round tripper in the Tigers’ half of the first and drove in the other UWA run in the third with a double just inside third base, plating Edgar.  Edgar reached base with a one-out double down the left field line.  Jessica Powell followed Mills with her second hit of the affair, but Satterfield pitched around the UWA threat with a pop up and a strikeout.  Satterfield set down the next 11 Tigers to close out the game.

Alyssa Shirey’s three-run blast in the first keyed the five-run first for the Lady Blazers. VSU added a pair of runs in the third off the long ball.  Kristie Cornell led off the inning with a double and scored on Stephanie Carlson’s shot over the centerfield wall.  Rebecca Asaman closed out the scoring for the Lady Blazers with a lead off solo homer to center.

In the second game, VSU staked its starter Margaret Carter a run in the first and three in the second, as Carter silenced the UWA bats in a complete game shutout.  UWA’s Mills and Kelli Hartley were the two Tigers that solved Carter with hits.  Carter fanned five and allowed just one free pass.  Mills slapped a single up the middle in the first and Hartley’s hit started a modest rally by the Tigers after Valisha Fincher walked.  Carter got Gordon to pop up to the second baseman to end the inning.

VSU exploded for five runs in the fifth after batting through the order and collecting five hits in the frame.  Andi Braswell and Melessa Jackson registered back-to-back two RBI hits.

UWA returns to the diamond on Sunday, April, 19, against the Argonauts of West Florida.  First pitch is set for 1 p.m. at the UWA Softball Complex.  Live stats will be available at athletics.uwa.edu.