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Schedule

Full
vs. Charlotte
Kyle Grice (Charlotte)
0
Western Carolina WCU 4-13
2
Winner Southern Miss USM 15-9
Western Carolina WCU
4-13
0
Final
2
Southern Miss USM
15-9
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Western Carolina WCU 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1
Southern Miss USM 0 0 0 0 2 0 X 2 4 0

W: Ladner, Kaylan (7-1) L: Rice, Savannah (2-6)

6
Winner Western Carolina WCU 5-13
4
Winthrop WINTHROP 12-11
Winner
Western Carolina WCU
5-13
6
Final
4
Winthrop WINTHROP
12-11
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Western Carolina WCU 0 0 1 4 0 1 0 6 9 1
Winthrop WINTHROP 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 4 4 0

W: Eilers, Jayme (3-7) L: WEIXLMANN, A (5-5)

Game Recap: Softball | | Denise Gideon, Director of Media Relations

McNeil Hits Grand Slam in Win Over Winthrop to Power Softball to Split Sunday

Catamounts go 2-2 at Mercer Bears Classic

The Basics 
 Score: Southern Mississippi 2, Western Carolina 0; Western Carolina 6, Winthrop 4
 Records: Western Carolina 5-13, Southern Miss 16-9, Winthrop 12-11
 Location: Macon, Ga., Sikes Field
 
MACON, Ga. – Western Carolina softball split the final day at the Mercer Bears Classic dropping the early-morning game with Southern Mississippi 2-0 and bouncing back to power past Winthrop 6-4. 
 
Southern Miss 2, Western Carolina 0
 
Turning Point 
Southern Miss broke open a scoreless game with a pair of runs in the bottom of the fifth and held the Catamounts without a run to secure the win. 
 
How it Happened 
  • After stranding a pair of baserunners in three consecutive innings, Southern Miss finally broke open the game with a pair of runs in the bottom of the fifth inning. 
  • Western Carolina had its best scoring chance in the top of the fifth when Myra Twitty led off with a single and Jeralyn Wells hit a one-out single to left field but the pair were left on base with two straight Catamount outs to end the inning. 
  Inside the Box Score 
  • Sophomore pitcher Savannah Rice tossed the complete game and takes the loss falling to 2-6 on the year. She allowed one earned run on four hits and struck out six. 
  • Wells had two of Western Carolina's three hits in the game. 
  • Southern Miss had four hits and stranded seven runners on base. 
  • Western Carolina had four base runners in the game. 
  • Southern Miss pitcher Kaylan Ladner earned the win for the Golden Eagles striking out 10. 
 

Western Carolina 6, Winthrop 4
 
Turning Point 
Western Carolina scored five unanswered runs, powered by a grand-slam, and a solo home run, to hold onto the lead despite Winthrop's late-inning four-run rally.
 
How it Happened 
  • After two scoreless innings, Western Carolina scored the first run of the game in the top of the third. Lindsay Perillo drew a walk to lead off the inning and came around to score from an RBI single through the left side by Twitty. 
  • The Catamounts monster inning came in the fourth inning. Amber Parker set it all up leading off with a double to left field and WCU loaded the bases with back-to-back one-out walks by Claudia Riddle and Perillo. With two outs, Kailey McNeil smacked a grand-slam as WCU scored four runs to lead 5-0. 
  • Winthrop cut into the Catamount lead with a pair of runs off a two-RBI home run to right field in the bottom of the fifth. 
  • Perillo helped the Catamounts get one of its runs back with a lead-off solo home run in the sixth to push the WCU lead back to four, 6-2. 
  • Things got interesting in the bottom of the sixth inning with the Eagles' second two-RBI home run of the game slicing the Catamount lead in half, 6-4. 
  • The Catamounts halted Winthrop's idea of a rally sitting the Eagles down in order in the bottom of the seventh to seal the win.  
 
  Inside the Box Score 
  • Jayme Eilers earned her third win of the season, 3-7, tossing a complete game against Winthrop. She gave up four runs on four hits, walked one, and struck out eight. 
  • Perillo, McNeil, and Twitty each had two hits in the game and Perillo also scored three runs. 
  • Western Carolina had nine hits in the contest. 
 
News & Notes 
  • McNeil hit the first grand slam of her career and the first for the Catamounts this season. She now leads the Catamounts with 15 RBI on the season. 
  • Perillo's homerun against Winthrop was the first of her Catamount career. 
  • With the eight strikeouts against Winthrop, Eilers has 53 strikeouts on the season which not only leads the team but paces the SoCon. She also pushes her career strikeout mark to 74 moving her to 15th in the WCU record book. She needs six to move into 14th place. 
  • The Catamounts have now won five of the last six games against Winthrop. 
  • Twitty is on a seven-game hitting streak and has eight RBI in that span. 
 
Up Next 
With Western Carolina's doubleheader with USC Upstate postponed until Mar. 31, the Catamounts will take eight days off before hosting Appalachian State Mar. 23 at the Catamount Softball Complex. 
 
 For the latest information on Catamount softball, follow @catamounts and @wcusoftball on Twitter or go to www.catamountsports.com.
 
 
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