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Box Score 2 The Emory softball team started a busy stretch of action on Tuesday with a doubleheader sweep at Covenant College. The No. 9-ranked Eagles boosted their win streak to 13 games and raised their overall record to 24-2 after coming away with 14-0 (5 inn.) and 9-1 (6 inn.) verdicts over the Lady Scots who slipped to 9-13 on the year.
Emory 9, Covenant College 1 (6 inn.) – Emory posts its 14th contest of the year with 10 or more hits in capping off the sweep of the Lady Scots … Senior Micah Scharff goes 3-for-4 at the plate and scores three times while sophomores Tara Fallahee and Amy Wray each hit safely twice with four RBIs … Sophomore pitcher Brittany File raises her record to 9-2, tossing five scoreless frames, allowing just one hit and striking out nine … Emory erupts for five runs in the third with Fallahee driving in two runs with a double and Wray delivering a three-run homer, her third of the year … Emory tacks on two more runs in the fourth with junior Hannah Sendel doubling in Scharff and Wray later singling in Sendel … Fallahee accounts for the team's final two runs with her fourth round tripper of the campaign, a two-run blow, in the top of the sixth … Fallahee goes a combined 5-for-7 with 5 RBIs and four runs scored over the two games.
Emory 14, Covenant College 0 (5 inn.) – Six Eagles hit safely at least two times, finishing with a season-high 19 hits that ties the program's 10th-highest game total … Amy Wray and Hannah Sendel both go 2-for-3 at the plate with three RBIs to highlight the offensive attack … Junior pitcher Sydney Carpenter raises her record to 14-0, hurling three innings with freshman Audrey Weller going the last two … It marks the fourth time in five games that Emory has shutout the opposition … Tara Fallahee's first of three hits drives in Emory's first run in the top of the first … Emory puts the game out of reach the following inning when it crosses the plate six times … Scharff and Wray each come through with RBI doubles while Sendel blasts her 10th homer of the season, a three-run shot, to highlight the outburst … Emory's 14 runs ties its season high.
Emory returns to action on Wednesday, Apr. 1, when it travels to Berry College for a pair of games starting at 1:00 pm.
