ST. AUGUSTINE — Georgia Southwestern State University edged Flagler College in a Peach Belt Conference softball doubleheader, 2-1 and 8-1, at Flagler Field Saturday.
Flagler (19-18, 5-9 PBC) looks to salvage game three versus the Hurricanes (24-15, 9-5) Sunday at noon.
Game one was for the taking for either squad. After GSW took the 2-0 lead on three hits in the first inning,
Rachel Hester (L, 9-7) settled down and didn't allow a run the rest of the way. Hester shutdown the GSW bats, limiting them to two hits over six frames while striking out one.
The Saints responded in the bottom of the second as
Trinity Fry batted in
Kyleigh Taylor, who led the frame off with a single. The Fry RBI-single was the lone run the Saints would see as they left nine runners on base, including the seventh inning when the potential game-tying run was on first base with two outs.
Gianna Amundsen led the team with two hits, alike
Madelyn Childs who had the seventh-inning hit, while
Paige Maseda,
Alyssa Velez,
Ari Bosch and Fry had a hit to lead the 10-hit first game.
In game two, GSW used two big-run innings — four in the third and three in the fifth — to pull away from the home team. The Saints tallied a run in the fifth inning, but it was after the Hurricanes held a 7-0 lead that Katelyn Wood — who homered in the third — extended with a two-run single before Zoe Willis stole home to score the same way she did in the first game.
Maseda was responsible for the RBI-groundout as she scored
Valerie Beltre (single) to get the Saints on the board. Regan Lee (W, 5-3) limited Flagler to four hits after Hannah Holloway (W, 11-5) allowed 10 in game one as they both held the Saints to one run in each contest.
In the circle for Flagler,
Madelyn Wise relieved
Taylor Scott (L, 4-6) after the third inning that put the Hurricanes ahead for good. Over the next four frames, Wise allowed one run on four hits as the other three where unearned due to defensive miscues.
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