College of Charleston
Coastal Carolina
Softball Sweeps Doubleheader at Coastal Carolina
4/7/2011 1:27:00 AM | Softball
CONWAY, S.C. - The College of Charleston softball swept its Wednesday night doubleheader against Coastal Carolina at the Coastal Carolina Softball Field. The Cougars claimed a 6-1 victory in the opener and followed with a 4-0 win in the second half of the twinbill.
The Cougars improve to 23-15 while the Chanticleers fall to 14-21.
Alexa Datko (San Diego, Calif.) pitched all seven innings of the opening game and held the Chanticleers to just two hits to earn her 11th win of the season. Datko took four Coastal hitters down on strikes.
Katie Forbes (Odessa, Fla.), Kelsey Hodgson (Woodstock, Ga.) and Kristi Woodall (Huntersville, N.C.) all tagged their third homerun of the season in the opener, temporarily tying the trio for the team lead with Katie Pesature (Brewster, N.Y.).
Stephanie Saylors (Easley, S.C.) went the distance for CofC in the circle in the second game and limited the Chants to just two hits while keeping them off the scoreboard. Saylors struck out six hitters.
Hodsgon and Woodall each added their second home run of the day and fourth of the year to ensure the sweep.
GAME ONE: CofC: 6, Coastal Carolina: 1
CofC outhit Coastal, 10-3, and three Cougars hit home runs in order to snap the Cougars' three-game losing streak in the first game.
The Cougars started early when Lizzy Vaughn (Placerville, Calif.) beat out an infield single to produce the game's first base runner. The next batter, Forbes, crushed a line drive over the fence in straight-away centerfield to give CofC the early two-run lead.
Hodgson extended CofC's lead to 3-0 in the third with her slicing homerun to the opposite field in right center.
The Cougars added another pair of runs in the fourth when Amanda Lonergan (Pembroke Pines, Fla.) and Carly Corthell (Reno, Nev.) legged out infield singles and Vaughn's hard-hit groundball was too quick for Coastal's shortstop to handle, allowing both runners to score.
Woodall's solo shot to right field in the fifth extended the Cougars' lead to 6-0.
Chelsea Pineda put Coastal on the board with a solo shot of her own in the bottom of the sixth but Datko would allow no further damage as CofC came away with the 6-1 win.
GAME TWO: CofC: 4, Coastal Carolina: 0
The Cougars continued the offensive surge into the second game and amassed 10 hits once again while Saylors shut down the Chants en route to the 4-0 win.
Both teams' bats were silent until Hodgson's second homerun of the day gave CofC a 2-0 lead in the top of the fourth inning. After Pesature slapped a single through the right side, Woodall followed suit with her second homerun of the day as well to put CofC up 4-0.
NEXT UP:
The Cougars return to Southern Conference action with a three-game set at Furman on Saturday, April 10 and Sunday, April 11. The teams play a doubleheader Saturday and single-game series conclusion on Sunday.
