Jefferson City, Tenn.----The Wingate University Bulldogs blasted four more homers Saturday afternoon, setting a single-season program record with 51 homers on the season, but the 21st-ranked Carson-Newman University Eagles took both games of the doubleheader in South Atlantic Conference softball action. The Eagles improve to 27-9 overall and 8-6 in the SAC, while the Bulldogs fall to 24-15 overall and 6-6 in league play.
 
GAME ONE | #21 Carson-Newman 5, Wingate 4
 
KEY STATS
 
- Wingate out-hit Carson-Newman 11-10
- The Eagles had four of the seven extra-base hits, but the Bulldogs hit two of the three homers
- WU left 10 runners on the bases; Carson-Newman stranded five
- C-N committed the lone error and stole the only base of the contest
- The Eagles' pitchers struck out nine and walked four, while Wingate's dealers struck out four and walked none
 
KEY BULLDOGS
 
- Heaven Maness went two-for-four with a home run, two RBI and a run scored
- Sara Stroud also was two-for-four at the plate with a homer, RBI and two runs scored
- Hannah Reeves had a double as one of her three hits
- Savanna Brooks drove in a run on a base hit
 
FIRST INNING
 
- Stroud homered to center to lead off the game
 
THIRD INNING
 
- Maness led off the third inning with a solo jack to left center
- Carson-Newman answered in the bottom half with a double from Emily Harris, scoring a runner from second
 
SIXTH INNING
 
- Maness drove in her second run of the day on a single to right field, scoring Alyssa Hall from second base
- Brooks reached on a fielder's choice on a sacrifice bunt, as Stroud scored to give the 'Dogs a 4-1 lead
- The Eagles' Carmen Holt ripped a two-out RBI single to center to get within two runs
 
SEVENTH INNING
 
- C-N's Syerra Rogers hit a pinch-hit home run to lead off the inning, bringing the tying run to the plate
- With the runners on first and second and two down, Macey Hughes hit a walk-off double down the right field line
 
WRAP UP
 
- Carson-Newman's Morgan Baker-Celis got the win, retiring all three batters she faced in the seventh
- Sydney Kale took the loss for Wingate, allowing the winning run on one hit in a third of an inning
 
GAME TWO | #21 Carson-Newman 14, Wingate 6 (six innings)
 
KEY STATS
 
- Carson-Newman out-hit Wingate 19-5
- The Eagles had nine of 12 extra-base hits, but the Bulldogs had the only two homers
- WU left three runners on the bases; C-N stranded five
- The Eagles had four of the seven stolen bases in the second game
- Wingate committed two of three errors
- Carson-Newman's pitchers struck out six and walked three, while the Bulldogs struck out three and walked one
 
KEY BULLDOGS
 
- Reeves went two-for-three with a homer and three RBI
- Ragan Liles also homered in the game, driving in two
- Maness drove in a run on a double
- Stroud scored two runs on a hit and three stolen bases
 
FIRST INNING
 
- The 'Dogs homered in the top of the first in the second straight games as Reeves' two-run blast to left field put the 'Dogs up early
- C-N answered with six runs of their own in the first
- Harris' two-run triple tied the game
- Hughes' RBI single put the Eagles ahead
- Holt scored Hughes two batters later
- Mary Vandergriff scored on a Wingate throwing error to cap the scoring in the frame
 
SECOND INNING
 
- Liles' two-run homer to left cut the Bulldogs' deficit in half
 
FOURTH INNING
 
- Harris drove in her third run of the game on an RBI double
 
FIFTH INNING
 
- Maness' double scored Stroud
- Reeves' drove in her third run of the game on a single through the left side, scoring Maness and cutting the C-N lead to a single run
- Hayden Dye tripled to lead off the home half of the fifth, later scoring on a fielder's choice
 
SIXTH INNING
 
- Two Eagles scored on a throwing error as they doubled their lead
- Holt drove in Mari Robbins on a single up the middle
- Vandergriff drove in the pinch runner in the next at-bat
- She later scored on a Kennedy Warner single
- Natalie Corbin doubled down the line, driving in the run that sealed the victory
 
WRAPUP
 
- NicKolette Ferguson got the win, allowing six runs on four hits in 4.1 innings
- Hali Scott took the loss
- She allowed five runs on five hits, recording one out
- Morgan Baker-Celis got the save, striking out four in 1.2 innings
 
UP NEXT
 
- The Bulldogs head to Coker on Wednesday to make up a previously postponed doubleheader with the Cobras
- First pitch of game one is scheduled for 1 p.m.