Box Score LaGRANGE, Ga. - LaGrange split a non-conference doubleheader with Point University on Wednesday at the LC Softball Complex. Point ended the Panthers' six-game winning streak in Game 1 with a 3-2 win in nine innings. LC came back to take Game 2 10-2 on the mercy rule in the sixth inning.
Game 1: LaGrange left 17 runners on base, 10 in scoring position in the extra inning loss. The Panthers outhit Point 10-5 in the game.
The two teams swapped unearned runs in the first inning. Point took a 2-1 lead with a run in the fifth. The Panthers tied the game with a two-out rally in the bottom of the inning.
Alexa Gonzalez reached on an error to keep the inning going.
Cannon Ramsey and
Kayla Helms followed with back-to-back singles to drive in Gonzalez with the tying run.
After
Claire Chamberlain (4-7) stopped Point in the top of the eighth, the Panthers threatened in the bottom of the inning. LC had runners on second and third with no outs, but Point's Taylor Gajdik retired the next three batters to get out of the inning.
Point pushed across the go-ahead run in the top of the ninth to go up 3-2. The Panthers got the tying run as far as third base in the bottom of the inning, but could not get the run home.
Jaselyn Couch and
Zoe Veres each had three hits for the Panthers. Chamberlain pitched her team-leading sixth complete game, allowing the three runs, only one was earne. She gave up five hits, struck out four, and walked none.
Game 2: The Panthers cruised in the second game behind the complete game pitching of
Jenna Yeary, who was backed by a 13-hit attack. Helms went 3-for-3 with two RBIs. Chamberlain, Veres, and
Lexi Mitchell all had two hits. Yeary (6-2) gave up one earned run, walked none, and struck out four.
The Panthers gave Yeary all the runs she needed with a three-run first inning. Chamberlain had an RBI double and Ramsey a run-scoring single in the inning.
LC upped the lead to 6-1 with two runs in the fourth inning and another in the fifth. Ramsey walked to lead off the inning, stole second, then came home on a base hit by Helms. Mitchell's single down the left field line drove in Helms. Helms third hit of the game scored Veres, who had a lead off single.
The Panthers closed out the game in the sixth inning. Chamberlain's single brought home the first run. Veres drove in two more with a single to left.
Alexa Gonzalez doubled off the left field fence as Chamberlain scored for the 10-2 final score.
Up Next: The Panthers host nationally-ranked Belhaven in a CCS doubleheader Saturday beginning at 12 p.m.
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