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Box Score 2 The No. 16 Emory softball team used sterling pitching to go along with some timely hitting in posting a doubleheader sweep over No. 7 Piedmont College Wednesday afternoon. The Eagles raised their overall record to 35-6 after record 7-0 and 2-1 victories over the Lions who slipped to 35-5.
Senior pitcher Amanda Kardys pitched a brilliant complete game in the opener, handcuffing the Lions to just five hits while striking out four batters in raising her overall record to 23-1. It represented her 13th complete game and seventh shutout of the season. Offensively, nine players hit safely with freshman designated player Tara Fallahee going 2-for-4 at the plate and socking a bases-loaded clearing double in the bottom of the first that staked the Eagles to a 3-0 lead. Emory added two more runs in the third after the first two batters were retired, with junior Moira Sullivan and sophomore Alyssa Pollard delivering RBI singles. Pollard added another RBI in the fifth while junior Micah Scharff's second hit of the game pushed across Cortney Sugihara with the team's final run. Emory finished with 14 safeties in the opener, the 23rd time this year it had posted double figures in the hits column.
The finale developed into a pitching duel between Emory's Brittany File and PC's Brittany Head. The game was scoreless until the bottom of the sixth when the Eagles scored a pair of unearned runs. Scharff singled in Claire Bailey with the first score while senior Lauren Gorodetsky drove in the other on a sacrifice fly. Piedmont cut the deficit in half in the top of the seventh when Abby Smith hit her first homer of the season. File then gave way to Kardys who picked up her second save of the season, retiring all three batters she faced. File picked up the win, her 10th in 14 outings, allowing five hits and striking out six.
Emory returns to action on Sunday (Apr. 13) when it meets Georgia Middle State, a member of the National Junior College Athletic Association, with the Eagles' program recognizing the contributing of its five-person senior class – Megan Light, Claire Bailey, Ally Kersthold ,Lauren Gorodetsky and Amanda Kardys.
