ROCKY MOUNT, NC – The William Peace University softball combined to score four runs on 10 hits in two games at North Carolina Wesleyan this afternoon. The Pacers dropped game one, 4-1, and let a late lead slip away in game two, as the Battling Bishops finished off the sweep with a 4-3 win in walk-off fashion.
WPU falls to 22-12 with a 10-6 mark in the USA South. NC Wesleyan is 12-12 overall and 9-5 in conference play, which puts them fourth in the league standings, one spot ahead of the fifth-place Pacers.
Game One: NC Wesleyan 4, William Peace 1WPU only scraped up two hits and
left eight runners on, as Wesleyan went on to win, 4-1.
Caroline Womble and Lindsey Coley were the only two Pacers to record a hit. Logan Lowery (7-4) mowed through WPU's lineup to earn the win, giving up an unearned run on two hits, six walks and four strikeouts in a complete game effort.
Morgan Farmer (13-4) pitched well herself but was pinned with the loss. She went the distance and allowed four runs (three earned) on six hits, two walks and a pair of strikeouts.
Wesleyan plated two runs after loading the bases with no one down in the fourth. Peyton Hyler came through with a two-out double in the sixth that scored Lindsey Sharpe and Alicia Burns. Jasmine Edgren was the only Bishop with multiple hits.
Game Two: NC Wesleyan 4, William Peace 3WPU led the entire game but couldn't hold on. Wesleyan scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh, coming back for a 4-3 win that ended on Shelby Godwin's walk-off single.
Wiggins went 3-for-3 and got things off to a quick start with her eighth home run of the season in the top of the first, a two-run shot that scored Womble after she led off with a walk. Coley finished 2-for-3 and scored in the second to make it 3-0.
Katelyn McLamb drove her in with an RBI single.
Kelsey Durham (4-7) went the distance and gave up four runs (two earned) on seven hits, a walk and four strikeouts in a loss.
Lowery (8-4) earned her second win of the day. She tossed two more scoreless innings in the sixth and seventh in relief of Edgren, who allowed three runs on seven hits in five innings pitched.
The WPU softball team travels to Lynchburg this Sunday for a doubleheader starting at 1:30 p.m.
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