GREENWOOD – The Lander softball team bounced back from its first loss of the season to earn a 13-5 win over Belmont Abbey and go 1-1 on day two of the Bearcat/Fleet Invitational.

Lander dropped its first game of the day to Carson-Newman (5-1), as the Eagles scored in all five innings to notch a 10-1 win over the Bearcats. Lander then trailed Belmont Abbey (0-6) 5-2 after two innings before storming to life to score 11 unanswered runs.

Morgan Watson followed her first inning home run with an RBI single in the third to cut the deficit to 5-3 before Alana Frye uncorked a bases-loaded triple to give Lander a 6-5 lead. RBI knocks from Haven Pesce and Bridgett Tierney capped six-run third for the Bearcats. 

Ashley Vinson and Watson both recorded RBI doubles in the fourth inning, while Frye's RBI groundout and an error on a grounder from Logan Coward made the score 12-5. Reagan Lunsford's RBI single in the sixth ended the game.

Vinson (3-1) came out of the bullpen to toss 5.1 innings and earn the wn, allowing one run on four hits.

Lander wraps up the weekend Sunday morning with a 10:00 a.m. game against Concord. 

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