NEWBERRY - Newberry pitching allowed only four hits for the day while the Wolves pounded out 15 hits in a doubleheader sweep of North Greenville at the Smith Road Complex on Saturday afternoon. The Wolves won the first game 7-0, then took the second contest by a 9-0 score in five innings.

Newberry runs its record to 8-0 to start the year, while NGU falls to 6-4. Newberry is next in action on Wednesday at 3 p.m., traveling to Francis Marion for the first road games of the season.

GAME ONE: Newberry 7, North Greenville 0

• Maude McCourry pitched a complete game two-hitter, moving to 4-0 on the year with only one NGU batter reaching scoring position. She struck out three and walked three.
• Christina Linton went 3-for-4 with a homerun and a double, driving in four runs.
• Allison Van Atta and Ann Dee Priest each collected a pair of hits.

Thanks to a sparkling performance in the circle from McCourry, a two-out rally in the second would give the Wolves all of the offense they would need. 

With runners on second and third and two out, Priest drove in a run with a single, followed by Linton's two-run double. Morgan Sweeney capped the rally with her own RBI single.

Linton added two more runs to the total with her monster homerun to right field driving in a pair of runs in the fourth inning. It was her first homer of the season.

GAME TWO: Newberry 9, North Greenville 0 (5 inn.)

• Another Linton homer and a strong pitching performance from Hannah Blakley and Devon Morrison pushed the Wolves to their third run-rule win of the season.
• Blakely allowed no runs on two hits in 4.1 innings to move to 3-0 on the year, while Morrison closed out the run-rule victory with a perfect two-thirds of an inning.
• Priest and Hailey Drawe each went 2-for-3, with Drawe driving in a run with a triple.

Priest opened the scoring with a two-out RBI single in the bottom of the first. The Wolves led 1-0 heading to the third inning, where the offense simply exploded. 

Linton led off with her second homer of the day followed by singles to put runners on base for Priest's RBI single. Madison Tepfenhart brought home two runs with a bases loaded walk and two runs scored on an NGU error. The Wolves exited the inning with a 7-0 lead after Tepfenhart scored when she and Sam Robillard executed a perfect double steal.

The Wolves put the winning runs across the board on an RBI triple by Drawe and a sacrifice fly by Morrison in the fourth.