NEWBERRY, S.C. - The Newberry Wolves started the season with a fantastic Opening Day sweep of Southern Wesleyan, highlighted by a one-hitter in the opener by Shelley Jeffcoat (Lexington, S.C.). Newberry won the first game 4-0 and took the second game 7-2.

The Wolves move to 2-0 on the season entering a doubleheader at Shaw in Raleigh, N.C., on Saturday at 2 p.m. Following that twinbill, the Wolves host five straight doubleheaders starting with a 2 p.m. Sunday matchup with Coker.

Game One: Newberry 4, Southern Wesleyan 0
Jeffcoat retired the first 18 batters consecutively before her perfect game bid was broken up by a seventh inning single on the way to a complete game one-hitter. The junior struck out a career-high 12 batters and took advantage of diving plays at shortstop by Brittany Phillips (Pacolet, S.C.) to keep the Warriors off the bases.

Paige Brugh (Indian Land, S.C.) got Newberry's scoring started with a leadoff double in the bottom of the second and scoring on a Jennifer Yancey (Dunwoody, Ga.) single through the left side to make it 1-0.

Gwenell Crawford (Yulee, Fla.) led off the bottom of the third with a single and made the lead 2-0 on Hailey Harris' (Rougemont, N.C.) RBI single.

The Wolves wrapped up the scoring in the fourth with pinch runner Casey Nakawatase (Lincolnwood, Ill.) scoring on a wild pitch and Tasia Diaz (Dowagiac, Mich.) coming home on a Crawford single.

Crawford and Diaz each went 2-for-3 in the game.

Newberry 4, Southern Wesleyan 0
(Feb 08, 2012 at Newberry, S.C.) (Game 1)
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Southern Wesleyan... 000 000 0 - 0 1 0 (0-1)
Newberry............ 011 200 X - 4 8 0 (1-0)
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Pitchers: Southern Wesleyan - Stephanie Bourlet and Cristy Hudson. Newberry - Shelley Jeffcoat and Lindsey Workman.
Win-Shelley Jeffcoat(1-0) Loss-Stephanie Bourlet(0-1) T-1:26
FULL BOX SCORE

Game Two: Newberry 7, Southern Wesleyan 2
Newberry starter Kaylyn Camacho (Tampa, Fla.) struck out nine batters in her collegiate debut, allowing just two runs on four hits to lead the Wolves to the twinbill sweep.

Casey Stevens (Coral Springs, Fla.) hit a two-out solo homerun to centerfield in the bottom of the first to stake the Wolves out to a 1-0 lead. Camacho helped her own cause with a two-out RBI single in the second to driv ehome Brugh, who led off the inning with a single.

Crawford led off the third with a double off of the left field fence and Phillips reached on a bunt single. Stevens smacked an RBI single up the middle and Ashley Roof (Columbia, S.C.) used an RBI groundout to make it a 4-0 Newberry lead after three innings.

Tessa McGaha and Briana Gonzalez hit RBI singles in the fourth inning to cut the lead to 4-2 and give the Warriors their first runs of the season.

Yancey led off the bottom of the fourth with a solo homer to right-center to push Newberry's lead to 5-2 and a two-run Brugh single in the bottom of the fifth closed out the Newberry scoring.

Stevens was 3-for-3 in the game with two RBIs, while Brugh was two for three.

The Newberry pitching staff combined for 21 strikeouts to only one walk in the doubleheader.

Newberry 7, Southern Wesleyan 2
(Feb 08, 2012 at Newberry, S.C.) (Game 2)
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Southern Wesleyan... 000 200 0 - 2 4 1 (0-2)
Newberry............ 112 120 X - 7 9 2 (2-0)
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Pitchers: Southern Wesleyan - Casey Johnson; Candace Graves(3) and Cristy Hudson. Newberry - Kaylyn Camacho and Monica Buccellato.
Win-Kaylyn Camacho(1-0) Loss-Casey Johnson(0-1) T-1:47 A-150
HR NEW - Casey Stevens (1); Jennifer Yancey (1).
FULL BOX SCORE