Softball uses dramatic tactics to break into win column, snap losing streak
Posted by The Skyliner on February 25th, 2009Stephen Lane
Staff Writer
Starting the season with six straight losses is never something a team expects to do, but the NGU softball team went into their doubleheader with Brevard expecting to pick up their first win of the year.
In a defensive struggle for the first seven innings, Lindsey Eargle, senior sport management, broke the 1-1 tie in the eighth inning when she drove in Hope Brewer, junior sport management. Eargle then scored on a sacrifice fly by Lauren Vick, sophomore early childhood education, to win their first game of the season 3-2.
The Crusaders fought hard throughout the second game against the Tornados and came up on the losing end of a 1-0 decision. NGU managed only five hits and allowed four in the game, but it was a throwing error by Krysta Laird, junior outdoor leadership, that allowed the only run of the game to score.
The Crusaders got on the bus yet again the next day for games five and six of seven straight road games. They traveled to Southern Weslyan University to take on the Warriors in a doubleheader on Saturday.
NGU could not have asked for a better start as they won the first game by shutting out the Warriors 2-0.
Unfortunately for the Crusaders, they fell in dramatic fashion almost exactly as they did the day before. They fell by just one run, losing 2-1 and splitting the series with Southern Wesleyan.
The team finished up their streak of road games yesterday at Emanuel College in Franklin Springs, Ga. They take on Southern Wesleyan again at home Saturday at 1 p.m.