Sunday, April 24, 2005
2005 Food Lion
SAC Softball Tournament Finals
#3 PC
defeats #1 Carson-Newman 4-2 to force Elimination Game
ROCK
HILL, SC
– The
Blue Hose of Presbyterian College defeated Carson-Newman
College 4-2 to force an elimination game in the final round of
the 2005 Food Lion SAC Softball Tournament.
The Eagles are ranked 18th in the latest NCAA Division
II national poll. PC improved to 35-22 with the win while C-N
fell to 38-9.
Mandy
Stevens
(Knoxville, TN) gave the Lady Eagles a 2-0 advantage in the
bottom half of the third inning when she hit a ball through
the middle to plate Whitney
Hickam (Knoxville, TN) and Meaghan
McNutt (Knoxville, TN). Hickam doubled to lead off the
inning and then McNutt singled to move her to third. LeAndrea
Johnson (Chattanooga, TN) moved both runners into scoring
position with a sacrifice bunt down the first base line.
PC scored four runs on three hits and one C-N error in the top half
of the seventh to take a 4-2 lead.
Whitney Hannon
(Greer, SC) and Rachel
Bailey (Howard, OH) tied the game at 2-2 on an Eagle
throwing error. Katie
Fite (Conway, SC) then doubled to left-center field to
score the go ahead runs as Lindsay Wismer
(Sarasota, FL) and Haley Brooks (Tifton, GA) crossed
the plate. All of
Presbyterian’s runs were scored with two outs in the inning.
Megan Wheelus
(Florence, SC) held the Eagles at bay in the bottom of the
seventh inning to send the championship round to a second game
as C-N entered the day undefeated in the double-elimination
tournament.
Fite led PC going 2-for-4 with a double and two RBI.
Bailey and Hannon both went 3-for-3 at the plate with a
run scored. Wheelus
came in to pick up the win (8-3) in relief for the Blue Hose
pitching the final three innings of the contest.
Lisa
Rogers
(Rossville, GA), Hickam and McNutt tallied two hits each for
the Eagles. Stevens
was 1-for-3 with the pair of RBI.
Megan Elliott (Chattanooga, TN) took the loss (35-8) for C-N
throwing all seven innings.
The tournament champion will be decided later this afternoon when
the Eagles and Blue Hose meet in the elimination bracket.