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Box Score 2 NEWBERRY, S.C. - The Newberry College softball team picked up its fifth straight win with an extra inning affair over LeMoyne College in game one, 5-4, but fell in a one run ball game in game two, 1-0, at the Newberry College Softball Field on Monday.
Game One: Newberry 5, LeMoyne 4 (8 innings)
With the bases loaded in the bottom of the eighth inning it was freshman Jennifer Yancey (Dunwoody, Ga.) who smacked a pinch hit, walk off sacrifice fly to give Newberry (9-12) a 5-4 win.
Yancey came in with two outs and scored Shelby Holland (Charlotte, N.C.), who walked earlier in the inning, for the game winning run.
LeMoyne (1-1) picked up a quick 3-0 lead on the Wolves after scratching across one run in the top of the first, capitalizing on a Newberry error, and two more in the second on Leah Ford's (Pulaski, N.Y.) RBI double to right field.
The Wolves then tied up the game in the third after an Aissa Gatewood (N. Charleston, S.C.) triple with two outs started off the Newberry rally. Chelsie Hilbourn (Loris, S.C.) then drove in Gatewood with an infield single followed by a Felicia Taylor (Venica, Fla.) homerun. The shot to right center, Taylor's fifth of the year, kept the game knotted at three apiece until Dolphins pitcher Liz Weber (Bay Shore, N.Y.) drove home Morgan Edmonson (Johnson City, N.Y.) with a single to centerfield to put LeMoyne up one in the top of the eight.
With Hilbourn placed on second, Holland was able to draw a walk from Weber who was driven in by Amber Holley (Aiken, S.C.) for the game-tying run. Yancey then drove in Holley for the Wolves' fifth straight win.
Senior Jessie Teague (Charlotte, N.C.) was the only Newberry batter with multiple hits, going 2-for-2 from the plate.
Taylor threw all eight innings for the Wolves, allowing three earned runs on eight hits and striking out eight.
Game Two: LeMoyne 1, Newberry 0
With a pitcher's duel going on in game number two it was LeMoyne who came out on top, winning 1-0.
The Dolphins scored the game's lone run in the top of the first when Barb Shea (Huntington Beach, Calif.) reached on an error. Demetra Kermidas (Binghamton, N.Y.) then scored Shea after another Newberry error drove in the game winning run.
The Wolves stranded six base runners and had the bases loaded in the seventh but couldn't drive in the tying run.
LeMoyne pitcher Sarah Harrison (Cobleskill, N.Y.) struck out nine Wolves while allowing just two hits to the scarlet and gray. Taylor went the distance in game two as well, allowing no earned runs on two hits.
Gatewood and Hilbourn had the two lone two this for Newberry in game two.
Newberry will be back in action tomorrow as they head to Misenheimer, N.C., to take on Pfeiffer in a doubleheader. Game time is set for 2 p.m.