HARTSVILLE - Newberry lost a heartbreaking 5-4 decision in the early game before coming back to win the second game 5-3 and split a doubleheader with the Coker Cobras on Sunday afternoon. The Wolves, whose record for the season now stands at 6-2, will have five days off before returning to action on Saturday in a home doubleheader against North Greenville.

Game One: Coker 5, Newberry 4
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Newberry broke a seventh-inning tie to take a 4-3 lead before seeing Coker add two runs in the bottom of the frame to take a 5-4 decision.

Leadoff hitter Gabby Bedard (Winder, Ga.) began the game in style for the Wolves with a triple, then came in to score on a Danielle Basch (Muskegon, Mich.) sacrifice fly. Coker took the lead in the third inning, using a single, a double, and an groundout to score two runs. A bases-loaded walk an inning later gave the Cobras a 3-1 advantage.

Bedard and Basch led off the sixth inning with singles, then came in to score on a two-RBI single by Brittany Phillips (Pacolet, S.C.). In the following inning, Newberry appeared poised to take the win as an error on the pitcher allowed Casey Nellums (Duluth, Ga.) to come in to score. But a pair of Wolves errors coupled with two Coker singles in the bottom of the frame gave the Cobras the 5-4 win.

A day after earning a win in a ten-inning complete game, Kaylyn Camacho (Tampa, Fla.) allowed three runs on four hits in four innings of work, striking out eight.

Game Two: Newberry 5, Coker 3
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Gabby Bedard followed up her two hit performance in the early game by going 3-for-4 in Game Two to lead the Wolves to a 5-3 win. Bedard came in to score twice during the game, including the go-ahead run in a three-run seventh inning for the Wolves.

The Cobras scored single runs in the first and second inning to take an early 2-0 lead. Newberry left five runners on base through the first four innings before finally breaking through in the fifth. with Bedard and Katie Capobianco (Coconut Creek, Fla.) coming in to score after a Danielle Basch flyout to center field.

In the seventh, a Bedard single followed by two bunt singles loaded the bases with no outs in a tied game. A ground ball by Summer Bartek (Jefferson, Ga.) allowed the Wolves to take the lead, then a Leah Hosking (Williamston, Mich.) triple with two outs brought in two more runs. Coker added a single run in the bottom of the frame, but Shelley Jeffcoat (Lexington, S.C.) induced a ground ball with two runners on to end the game and seal the victory.

Jeffcoat pitched her second complete game in as many days after going eight innings in yesterday's extra-innings win, pitching around nine hits to hold the Cobras to three runs.