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Box Score 2 The Emory University softball team closed out a successful opening weekend of play on Saturday with a pair of victories on the final day of the 3N2 Takeoff Event. The Eagles boosted their record to 4-0 after hammering Averett University in their first game, 13-4 (6 inns.), before closing with a 10-3 triumph over Maryville College.
After collecting a total of 22 hits over two contests on Friday, the Eagles were back at it today hammering the Averett and Maryville pitching staffs for 27 safeties that included 10 extra-base hits -- seven doubles, two triples and a home run.
Against the Cougars of Averett, Emory fell behind by a 3-0 margin after two frames but tied things up in its half of the third with junior Micah Scharff and senior Ally Kersthold delivering run-producing doubles. After Averett put a run up in the top of the fourth, Emory crossed the plate twice in the bottom of the inning, taking the lead for good. Scharff singled in her second of three runs in that inning while Kersthold picked up a RBI on a bases-loaded walk. The Eagles blew the game wide open in the fifth, sending nine batters to the plate and scoring five runs. Freshman Sydney Cohen highlighted that explosion with a pinch-hit single that scored two runners. Emory closed the game out in the sixth when sophomore Melody Carter jacked her first career homer, a three-run blast, over the left field fence. Senior Amanda Kardys picked up the win, tossing four innings while freshman Brittany File earned the save following two innings of scoreless relief.
The Eagles unleashed a 14-hit attack against Maryville with senior
Megan Light going 3-for-4 at the plate with three RBIs and three runs scored. The sophomore trio of
Hannah Sendel,
Alyssa Pollard and Carter all hit safely twice with Sendel adding two RBIs. The game was deadlocked at 3-3 before Emory pushed across four runs in the fifth with Light singling in the first score and freshman
Taylor Forte the last run in the frame with a triple that knocked in Pollard. Light doubled in one of Emory's three runs in the sixth with Carter adding a run-producing triple. Kardys pocketed the win in relief, blanking the Scots over 5 1/3 innings, allowing just three hits and fanning four.
Emory returns to action on Saturday (Feb. 14) when it hosts Greensboro at 10:00 and Eastern Mennonite at noon.
