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Box Score 2 CARY, N.C. - The Hood College softball team split a pair of games at the Triangle Classic, defeating Maryville (Tenn.) 2-1 before falling 13-5 to a Salisbury squad receiving votes in the national polls.
Hood 2, Maryville (Tenn.) 1
Inside the Box Score
- Kayli Paugh pitched a complete game and drove in the winning runs. Inside the circle, she allowed just six hits. At the plate, her two-run double in the fifth proved to be the difference.
- Jess Sedgwick had two hits, while Kristen Scott tripled and walked.
How it Happened
- The Fighting Scots struck first with a run in the fourth. Aly Snider doubled to lead off the top of the inning and scored on a one-out base hit by Morgan Brewer.
- In the bottom of the fifth, Hood took advantage of a pair of errors to take the lead. Scott and Kristy Erfurdt reached base on the miscues and with two outs, Paugh ripped a double to put the Blazers in front 2-1.
- Maryville threatened in the seventh when Ashton Hayden walked with two outs, but Shelby Alcorn threw her out trying to steal second to end the game.
Notes
- Snider doubled twice in the game for the Fighting Scots.
- Nicole Blackburn was the hard-luck loser. She did not allow an earned run and scattered four hits.
SALISBURY 13, HOOD 5 (6 INNINGS)
Inside the Box Score
How it Happened
- After the Sea Gulls scored once in the bottom of the first, Hood scored twice in the top of the second. Roo Saglimbeni led off with a walk and back-to-back singles by Sedgwick and Leaman brought her home. Sedgwick crossed home on a sacrifice fly by Kaitlin Barron for the lead.
- Salisbury answered right back in the bottom of the inning with three runs via run-scoring hits by Leanne Collins and Kristen Yanarella.
- The tug-of-war for the lead continued in the fifth when the teams traded runs. Saglimbeni drove in Erfurdt and Scott with a single to tie the game at 4-4. A double by Sedgwick knocked in Maddy Collins for a 5-4 lead.
- The Sea Gulls used the long ball to reclaim the lead in the bottom of the inning. Courtney Tate hit a grand slam and Caitlin Lake added a two-run blast as part of a seven-run inning to make it 11-5.
- Two more runs in the sixth for Salisbury stopped the game.
Notes
- Leaman took the loss for Hood. She allowed nine earned runs in five innings.
- Shannon Powell, the second of three pitchers for Salisbury, picked up the win. She allowed three runs, none earned, in 2.2 innings of relief.
- Collins, Tate and Yanarella each had two hits for the Sea Gulls.
Up Next
Hood wraps up play at the Triangle Classic with games against N.C. Wesleyan and Christopher Newport on February 26.
