GREENWOOD - Hayley Leissner held No. 10 Wingate University to just seven hits and Ashley Proctor provided the game-winning RBI single in Sunday's second contest as the Bearcats upset the Bulldogs, 5-3, and earned a non-conference, doubleheader split at Doug Spears Field. Wingate won the first game, 8-0. (Game 1 Boxscore | Game 2 Boxscore)
Lander moves to 10-14 overall, while Wingate is 19-3.
Proctor's sixth-inning, two-RBI, game-winning single plated Daisy Stewart and Rachelle Adkins and snapped a 3-3 tie to give Lander the victory.
Leissner struck out three, walked five and allowed three earned runs in the complete seven innings as she pushed her record to 5-3.
Wingate's Brittany Blankenship (10-2) suffered the loss as she walked two and allowed two earned runs on three hits in six innings.
The Bulldogs took a 2-0 lead in the fourth inning on Debra Grijalva's solo shot over the centerfield wall and Jessica Bowen's RBI single.
Lander retaliated to take a 3-2 lead in the fourth when Natalie Smith's RBI double plated Marilyn Newman, Smith scored on a throwing error and Casey Corbitt's RBI-single sent Natalie Batson home.
Wingate tied the game at 3-3 in the sixth when Bowen's RBI single scored Kelsey King.
For Lander, Smith (1-for-3, one run, one RBI) and Newman (1-for-1, one run) both doubled.
Wingate's Grijalva hit 1-for-4 with one home run, while Leyila Myers went 2-for-2 and Bowen 2-for-3.
In the first game, Blankenship (10-1) earned the win with three strikeouts, one walk and three hits in five innings.
Lander's Amanda Hamby (2-4) took the loss as she struck out three, walked three and allowed four earned runs on 11 hits in five innings.
Brittany Barrineau hit a two-run home run in the first inning to give Wingate a 2-0 lead, then the Bulldogs stretched the lead to 8-0 in the third on Brittany Loudermilt's three-run homer, Barrineau's two-RBI single and Grijalva's RBI single.
The game was called in the fifth due to the eight-run rule.
For Wingate, Barrineau hit 2-for-4 with four RBI, Kasey Pendley went 2-for-4 and Grijalva 2-for-4 with one RBI. Emily Chavis batted 1-for-3 with one double.
