NEWBERRY - Playing as the visiting team in its own stadium, Newberry was never able to feel at home at the plate and dropped both ends of a doubleheader to Brevard.

Due to snow in the Western North Carolina mountains, Tuesday's games were moved from Brevard's campus to the Smith Road Complex. The Tornados took the first game by a score of 3-0 before sweeping the series with a 3-1 victory in Game Two.

Newberry falls to 15-15 on the season and 3-7 in conference play, while Brevard improves to 13-19 and 3-7. The Wolves play a pair of road doubleheaders, at Carson-Newman on Friday and at nonconference foe Augusta State next Wednesday, before returning home for Senior Day on Saturday, April 6 against Lincoln Memorial.

Game One: Brevard 3, Newberry 0
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Tuesday's first game began as a pitchers' duel. Newberry's Kaylyn Camacho (Tampa, Fla.) and Brevard's Kayla Clemens were dialed in during the early going. Camacho gave up a walk in the first inning and a single in the fourth, retiring 12 of the 14 batters she faced through the first four innings. She would finish with a complete-game, five-hit effort that included four strikeouts against just two walks.

Brevard would strike for a run in the fifth. The leadoff batter reached on a fielding error and was advanced to third base on a sacrifice bunt and a single. Camacho induced a flyout from Heather Morris that was not deep enough to score the runner from third for the inning's second out. A stolen base would loom large, placing runners on second and third with two outs. Alyssa Miller hit a scorching ground ball up the middle, but Brittany Phillips (Pacolet, S.C.) dove to her left to come up with the ball. She was unable to make the throw to first in time, and the runner scored from third base to give the Tornados a 1-0 advantage.

Darrian Jamison (Versailles, Ky.) recorded Newberry's first hit of the game on a solid single to left field with one out in the top of the sixth inning. Tasia Diaz (Dowagiac, Mich.) followed with a single, but a fielder's choice and a groundout would end the inning and strand the potential tying and go-ahead runs on base.

A walk and a home run in the bottom half of the inning gave Brevard a 3-0 advantage, but Newberry did not go quietly in the seventh. Singles by Casey Stevens (Coral Springs, Fla.) and Phillips sandwiched around a misplayed Paige Brugh (Indian Land, S.C.) grounder loaded the bases with no outs. But two strikeouts and a ground ball fielder's choice would end the game and strand the tying run.

Game Two: Brevard 3, Newberry 1
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Newberry hitters again had trouble deciphering the Tornados pitching staff in the second game on Tuesday.

Brevard was able to get to Wolves starter Shelley Jeffcoat (Lexington, S.C.) early, striking for single runs in the third and fourth innings. Jeffcoat gave up two runs on five hits in four innings pitched and recorded a strikeout.

Newberry was unable to put together any legitimate scoring threats through the first five innings, leaving single runners stranded in the first, fourth, and fifth innings. Two line drive double plays ended promising innings as well.

Reliever Hannah Blakley (Manning, S.C.) pitched two solid innings of relief for the Wolves, but gave up an insurance run on three hits in the sixth.

In the seventh inning, leadoff hitter Brittany Phillips walked, then consecutive fielder's choices and a walk placed pinch hitter Ashley Roof (Columbia, S.C.) and left fielder Tasia Diaz (Dowagiac, Mich.) on first and second base with two outs. A sharp single by Gabby Bedard (Winder, Ga.) scored Roof, and Diaz and Bedard advanced to second and third base on the throw. But the Wolves would get no closer, as a strikeout would end the game and again strand the tying run on the basepaths.

Diaz was impressive at the plate for Newberry on the day, going 2-for-4 and drawing a walk. Phillips also tallied two hits in the series.