AIKEN - Newberry junior Maude McCourry blasted three homeruns in the Wolves' doubleheader split at USC Aiken on Tuesday afternoon. She drove in three runs in each game, as the Wolves took a 6-3 win in the opening game before losing a 6-5 decision in the second game.

Newberry moves to 6-6 overall on the season and will play two games against each No. 5 Armstrong and No. 25 Rollins in Savannah, Ga., this Saturday and Sunday.

Game One: Newberry 6, USC Aiken 3
The Wolves plated three runs in the seventh inning and scored the final five runs of the game to take the opening game of the day. Newberry piled up a season-best 12 hits in the contest.

Gabby Bedard (Winder, Ga.) led off the second with a double to right and scored on a throwing error to give the Wolves the opening run of the afternoon. USC Aiken took the lead with a pair of bases loaded walks in the third and an RBI sacrifice bunt in the fourth.

Bedard drove in a run with a sacrifice fly in the fifth and Maude McCourry (Centreville, Md.) hit her first homer of the season to lead off the sixth and tie the game at 3-3.

Bedard started the seventh inning rally with a leadoff infield single. She then stole second and took third on another single by Ashlen Ayres (Kennewick, Wash.). Hailey Drawe (Oceanside, Calif.) drove in the go-ahead run with a sacrifice fly to deep center, and McCourry pushed the lead to three runs with a second homer to left.

The offense in the game produced plenty of baserunners, as both Ayres and Casey Nellums (Duluth, Ga.) reached base on all four of their trips to the plate. Ayres was 3-for-3 with a wlaks and a run scored, while Nellums was 2-for-4, also reaching on errors twice. McCourry was 2-for-4 with three RBIs on the pair of bombs. 

McCourry was also the game's starting pitcher, allowing two runs in 3.0 innings on only one hit, but walking four. She was lifted in favor of Madison Burnett (Pickens, S.C.; 4-1) who earned the win with 4.0 innings of work, allowing only two hits and an unearned run with four strikeouts.

Game Two: USC Aiken 6, Newberry 5
McCourry's bat helped the Wolves rally from an early deficit, but Newberry stranded six runners in scoring position, leaving the door open for the Pacers to take a walkoff win.

USCA put together good offensive innings early in the game, scoring five runs in the first two frames. After two complete innings, the Pacers led 5-1, with Newberry's run coming when Ayres walked, stole second and scored on a poorly fielded sacrifice bunt attempt. Ayres also scored Newberry's second run, coming home on a USCA fielding error in the fourth.

McCourry tied the game up at 5-5 with towering three-run homer to center in the fifth inning, driving in Mallory Gerndt (Burke, Va.), who singled, and Bedard, who walked.

Newberry left the bases full in the sixth, and stranded McCourry at second in the seventh, squandering opportunities to take the lead. Aiken walked off with the win in the bottom of the seventh with a two-out single to left driving in a runner from second.

Hannah Blakley (Manning, S.C.; 1-2) was tagged with a hard luck loss, giving up the winning run despite allowing only four hits in 5.1 innings of relief.

Gerndt was 2-for-3 in the game, McCourry drove in three runs with her homer and Ayres scored twice.