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Box Score 2 TIGERVILLE, S.C. – The Lander softball team got 11.0 innings from Ashley Vinson without allowing an earned run, including a complete-game victory and 4.0 innings of extra-inning relief, as the Bearcats swept North Greenville on Thursday night, 4-0 and 7-6 in 11 innings.
Vinson surrendered just six hits to give Lander (9-2-1) its first sweep of the Crusaders (10-8) since 2012.
The Bearcats broke through in game one in the top of the third on a Morgan Watson sacrifice fly. Lander followed with three runs in the top of the seventh with a Sydney Grimes RBI single and a two-run double from Watson. Vinson (5-1) spun a complete-game five hitter with one walk and six strikeouts.
In game two, Watson again opened the scoring with an RBI single in the top of the first. Two batters later, Haven Pesce singled home another run and Bridgett Tierney followed with an RBI double to put the Bearcats up 3-0.
NGU answered with two runs in the bottom of the first and another in the second to tie the game, but Tierney singled home Guerrero in the third to make it 4-3 and Grimes notched an RBI single in the fourth to make the score 5-3. The Crusaders kept the game alive with a two-run homer in the bottom of the seventh to force extra innings.
Vinson put Lander up 6-5 in the top of the eighth with a single to score Abby Harris, but North Greenville matched the run in the bottom of the inning. Neither team scored again until the top of the 11th when Logan Coward came off the bench to single home Grimes and put Lander back on top. Vinson (6-1) left two Crusaders on base in the bottom of the 11th, ending the night with a strikeout to give the Bearcats the sweep.
Liz Gollin went 7.0 innings for the Bearcats, allowing five runs on eight hits with a walk and four strikeouts. Vinson allowed one unearned run in 4.0 innings of relief, striking out three and walking one while giving up just one hit.
Lander welcomes Emmanuel, Walsh, and Virginia-Wise to Greenwood for four games this weekend for the Bearcat Challenge at Doug Spears Field.
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