GREENWOOD – The Lander softball team used a complete-game shutout from Barbara Cook to take game one and earn a home split with Georgia Southwestern on Friday night at Doug Spears Field. 

Cook (6-6) limited the Hurricanes to four hits while recording six strikeouts with just one walk. Georgia Southwestern managed just one hit over the final five innings. 

Lander took the lead in the bottom of the fourth when Delaney Guerrero doubled down the left field line to drive in Jillian Terpenning. Cook helped her own cause in the ensuing at-bat, singling home Guerrero to double Lander's lead. The two runs would be all the Bearcats needed as Cook retired nine of Georgia Southwestern's final 11 batters. 

Lander scored first in game two as Logan Coward homered in the bottom of the first, but the Hurricanes would plate three runs in the third and the fifth and add five in the sixth to take an 11-1 lead. 

Down to their final out, the Bearcats rallied as Guerrero drove home Shannon Antonini to make the score 11-2. Terpenning then scored on an error and a Morgan Watson single cut the deficit to 11-4 before Kalei Cline launched a three-run homer to pull Lander within four. However, the Hurricanes tacked on an insurance run in the top of the seventh and worked around a one-out walk in the bottom of the seventh to hold on for a 12-7 win. 

Lander wraps its home slate on Sunday with a pair of games against Columbus State beginning at 2:00 p.m. 

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