ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - The Newberry Wolves gave up untimely big hits and couldn't push key runs across in a pair of losses at the Flagler Classic on Saturday. The Wolves lost a 6-3 game to Flagler in the opener, then a 2-1 squeaker to Eckerd in the second game.

The Wolves fall to 8-4 on the season with the losses and will face Tuskegee and Flagler in games tomorrow to close out the event.

GAME ONE: Flagler 6, Newberry 3

• Myranda Dills hit her first career homerun in a pinch hitting situation in the seventh inning to bring home all three Newberry runs.
• Newberry stranded six runners on base in the game, including three in scoring position.
• Maude McCourry was tagged with the loss, allowing seven runs on six hits with a walk and three strikeouts in 5.1 innings of work.

Newberry stranded runners on first and second in both the second and third innings and Flagler got the first runs on the board with a two-out, three-run homer to centerfield by Malloree Escue.

A Newberry error in the sixth kickstarted a Flagler rally, as the Saints put four runs on the board to pull away. Mallory Allen's three run homer with one out provided the insurance the hosts needed.

Allison Van Atta singled and McCourry doubled to lead off the seventh and Dills put a three-spot on the board with her first collegiate homerun to left field. Unfortunately the Wolves' rally would come up lacking.

GAME TWO: Eckerd 2, Newberry 1

• Newberry had only one baserunner in the final four innings after both teams scored in the opening frame.
• The Wolves had no players with extra base hits or multiple hits. 
• Devon Morrison allowed no runs on four hits in 5.2 innings of relief. Hannah Blakley allowed two early runs to get tagged with the loss.

Christina Linton led off the game by drawing a walk and would score on Van Atta's single to right with two outs. The Tritons took the lead in the bottom of the inning on a two-run double by Rachael Luckett.

Newberry kept itself in the game by stranding four Eckerd runners in scoring position, but the Wolves were unable to scratch across the tying run. 

The Wolves only struck out twice in the final four innings, continually putting the ball in play, but the scarlet and gray were limited to one baserunner in that span on Tori Zambrano's pinch hit single with two outs in the sixth.