GAFFNEY, S.C. - The Newberry College softball team dropped both games at the Saints Invitational at Limestone College, losing to the University of Charleston 3-1 and to No. 3 North Georgia 2-0.

Game one: Charleston 3, Newberry 1

The Wolves matched the Golden Eagles offensively with each team knocking four hits, but Newberry (5-9) committed four fielding errors to give the University of Charleston (2-7) their second win of the year, 3-1.

After both teams went scoreless in the first inning it was Charleston who struck first, scratching across one run in the top of the second on an Ashlea Wallace (Winfield, W.Va.) triple to lead off the inning. Teammate Amber Jarvis (Girard, Ohio) then hit one back to Newberry pitcher Amber Holley (Aiken, S.C.) to score Wallace and put the Golden Eagles up one.

Leftfielder Logan Tretick (Round Hill, Va.) then reached on a fielding error by the Wolves to start off the top of the second inning. Wallace than tripled once again, scoring Tretick and scored herself on an RBI single later in the inning, making it 3-0 after two.

Newberry showed some life in the bottom of the sixth with freshman Codi Kelly (New River, Ariz.) blasting a solo home run to centerfield, her third of the year, for the Wolves' lone run of the ballgame.

Chelsie Hilbourn was the only Newberry player with more than one hit, going 2-for-3 with a stolen base. Jessie Teague (Charlotte, N.C.) and Kelly had the only other two hits during the game.

Holley went 2.1 innings pitching, giving up three hits and two earned runs before being replaced by junior Felicia Taylor (Venice, Fla.) who threw the final 4.2 innings allowing just one hit and striking out one.

Game two: North Georgia 2, Newberry 0

The Wolves had nationally ranked No. 3 North Georgia (14-2) against the ropes in game two but couldn't muster up the offensive fire power to take down the Saints. Newberry allowed two late inning runs and ultimately fell, 2-0.

Taylor held the Saints in check as she threw three innings without allowing a North Georgia run. But the junior slipped up in the fourth, allowing a solo home run to Hilary Cox (Douglasville, Ga.) to put the Saints up one.

The scarlet and gray then committed their lone error of the game in the fifth to let in North Georgia's Victoria St. Clair (Hampton, Ga.) for the game's final run.

Taylor went the distance for Joe Elston's squad, giving up just six hits and one earned run with three strike outs.

As a team, Newberry had just three hits and stranded a total of six base runners. Centerfielder Aissa Gatewood (N. Charleston, S.C.) was 2-for-2 and grabbed her third stolen base in four attempts.

The Wolves will return to the diamond this Wednesday, March 2, as they take on USC Aiken in doubleheader action. First pitch is set for 2 p.m.