College of Charleston
Coastal Carolina
Softball Splits With Coastal Carolina
3/22/2012 12:43:00 AM | Softball
MT. PLEASANT, S.C. - The College of Charleston softball team stretched its winning streak to six games then saw it snapped as the Cougars took the opening end of a doubleheader against Coastal Carolina but fell in the second half of the twinbill.
The Cougars claimed a 5-0 win in the opener behind 12 hits and four Chanticleer fielding errors. Stephanie Saylors (Easley, S.C.) threw a complete-game one hitter in which she was perfect through five complete innings and took a no-hitter into the seventh.
The Cougars exploded for 12 hits led by Lizzy Vaughn (Placerville, Calif.) going 3-for-4 with two RBIs.
In the second game, the Cougars trailed 1-0 for much of the contest before extending the game to extra innings when they were down to their final out in the bottom of the seventh. Coastal plated another run in the ninth and CofC had no answer and eventually fell, 2-1.
Amanda Lonergan (Pembroke Pines, Fla.) had two of CofC's four hits in the game.
GAME ONE: CofC: 5, Coastal Carolina: 0
The Cougars' 12 hits in the first game were the most the team has had since hitting the same number against South Carolina State on Feb. 28. CofC started early with a leadoff double by Vaughn then benefitted from a pair of Chanticleer fielding errors before Lonergan singled up the middle to put CofC up 2-0 after the first inning.
The Cougars added one more in the next frame with a leadoff walk from Mackenzie Maples (Corona, Calif.) and single by Ashton Jarrett (Hanahan, S.C.) which, with the help of a Coastal fielding error, were enough to plate a run.
In the fourth, Maples and Klicker both produced base hits before Vaughn delivered her second double of the day and brought both runners around to score and make the score 5-0.
Saylors was perfect until she walked the leadoff hitter in the sixth inning and Coastal's lone hit in the game came in the seventh inning.
GAME TWO: CofC: 1, Coastal Carolina: 2 (9 innings)
After the Cougar bats thrived against Coastal's ace pitcher, the Cougars struggled to produce offense in the pitchers'-duel oriented second game.
Both teams' bats were quieted with the game's only early run coming on a solo home run in the top of the fourth off the bat of Coastal's Kory Hayden.
The teams then exchanged a few more quiet innings until the Cougars were down to their last set of at bats in the bottom of the seventh. Lonergan started the inning with a bunt single and her pinch runner, Chloe Fletcher (Land O'Lakes, Fla.) took second on a sacrifice laid down by Kristy Giragosian (Charlotte, N.C.). Down to their final out, the Cougars found heroics in their hot-hitting freshman, Maples, who continued her tear with a hard-hit single back up the middle.
The teams both went three-up, three-down in the eighth before the Chanticleers struck again in the ninth with a double, sacrifice bunt and sacrifice fly. The Cougars would have no answer in their half of the ninth and were then stung with the loss.
Giragosian extended her reaching base streak to 12 games in game one but failed to do so in the second. She did execute two sacrifice bunts, however.
ON DECK:
The Cougars return to Southern Conference play when the team heads to Cullowhee, N.C., for a three-game set with Western Carolina over the weekend of Saturday, March 24.
