SEWANEE, Tenn. –
KK Wadkins homered in the first game and Maggie Parker posted three hits while
Sydney Tackett drove in three runs, but Franklin College scored 12 combined runs in the first inning, sweeping Sewanee, 11-1 and 16-7, in softball action here Thursday afternoon.
The Tigers committed 10 errors in the twinbill, allowing 13 unearned runs across the two contests. Sewanee (12-16) has lost five consecutive games and begins a conference series Friday with a single game at Centre College at 4 p.m. CT.
GAME ONE
The Tigers managed just five hits in the first game and left three runners on base. The Grizzlies (15-5) struck for five runs in the first inning, taking advantage of an error that prolonged the inning.
Zoey Kugelman led off with a single and with one out, Jaylee Fansler's short pop landed between the circle and first base for a hit. Kendall Lowry then grounded to second, off the glove of
Grace Black, loading the bases, before a strikeout. The full count pitch to Ruth Kaiser looked like strike three to end the inning but was called a ball, forcing in a run.
Olivia Staigl then singled to right, plating two runs, and after a walk to McKenna Lucas, Kaylee Stewart dumped a single into short center, scoring two more runs for a 5-0 advantage.
Jasmine Day singled to left to leadoff the second inning for Franklin, stole second and scored on a double to leftcenter by Fansler. Lowry was hit and Hadley Fuhrman singled to center, plating a run. After a groundout, Staigl's sacrifice fly to center pushed across another, extending the lead to 8-0.
Stewart started the third inning with a double down the rightfield line and scored when Jasmine Day's grounder to short was booted and popped into short centerfield.
In the fifth Kugelman singled with one out and Fansler doubled high off the centerfield wall with two outs. Both runners came across on Lowry's single to center, pushing the lead to 11-0.
Wadkins ended the shutout with a solo homer to leftcenter in the bottom of the inning, her third of the season.
Franklin starter Lauren Duncan (5-2) worked three shutout frames, allowing three hits with no walks and one strikeout. Kamzi Gross got the final six outs, giving up one run on two hits.
Sewanee starter Reagan Huskey (7-8) allowed five runs, all unearned, in one inning, on four hits with two walks and one strikeout.
GAME TWO
The Tigers recorded 11 hits, including two doubles and a triple, and stranded nine runners on base in the loss. Barker was 3-for-4 with one RBI, Tackett collected two hits with three RBIs and
Ansley Giffin posted two and one RBI.
Franklin took advantage of three Sewanee errors to score seven runs in the top of the first inning.
Kugelman walked and Day reached on an error before Fansler's grounder to short loaded the bases, with no throw made on the chopper. Lowry then singled to short, scoring two runs, and Staigl singled to left, plating another. Ruth Kaiser then reached on an error, with a run coming across on the play, and Fuhrman walked, loading the bases.
Brooke Lipperd also reached on an error, with two runs scoring on the play, and Stewart's single to center plated another. Kugelman then beat out an infield single, pushing across the final run of the frame.
The Tigers got a run in the bottom of the inning after a leadoff walk to Tackett, who moved to second and third on sacrifice bunts by
Grace Black and
Abbie Buckner. Barker's two-out single to left got the home team on the board.
Lowry reached on an error to start the Grizzlies second inning and Staigl was hit before a single up the middle by Kaiser, a line drive off the glove of the Buckner in the circle, loading the bases. Fuhrman's grounder to short was booted and went all the way to the wall, clearing the bases, and another infield hit by Kugelman scored another for an 11-1 Grizzlies advantage.
In the third Fansler led off with a single to right and Staigl was hit before a two-run double off the centerfield wall by Kaiser, pushing the lead to 13-1.
Madilyn Parker tripled for the Tigers in the fourth inning and scored on
Abby Winkler's groundout.
In the fifth Sewanee plated five runs to extend the game, starting with a walk by Buckner and a single from Barker. Giffin then doubled to rightcenter, scoring a run, and another came across on a sacrifice fly by Parker.
With two outs
Christian Cain walked and Wadkins singled to left, loading the bases. Tackett then cleared the bases with a double to leftcenter, with Wadkins tagged out at the plate on the relay but her run counted because of obstruction on the catcher, cutting the deficit to 13-7.
Kugelman doubled down the rightfield line in the sixth and Day doubled off the wall in leftcenter before an RBI groundout by Alyssa Pasch.
In the seventh Kaiser singled to left and moved to second on an errant throw to the infield. Lipperd followed with an RBI single to center and with two outs, Kugelman doubled off the wall in center, plating another run.
Rylan Young (5-1) tossed 6.1 innings, leaving the game in the fifth before re-entering and getting the final seven outs. She allowed two runs on seven hits with two walks and three strikeouts.
Winkler (0-4) suffered the loss, giving up seven runs, three earned, on four hits with two walks in one inning.
