Mt. Pleasant, S.C. – The College of Charleston softball team was back in action hosting day two of the Charleston Challenge Saturday defeating UNC Greensboro 7-2 and Army 11-0 in the five-inning nightcap. The Cougars are now 2-1 on the season and will play in the tournament finale Sunday against Bethune-Cookman at 1:30 p.m.

Game One: CofC 7, UNCG 2 (Box Score) 

CofC scored five unanswered runs in the last three frames to defeat the UNCG Spartans 7-2 at Patriots Point. After giving up an early run in the second inning, Carly Hansis tied the game at one each when she drove in Taylor Dupree in the bottom of the third. Dupree then knocked in an RBI of her own in the fourth inning to give the Cougars a 2-1 lead.

UNCG tied the game in the top of the fifth recording back-to-back doubles by Wright and McKinney but was quickly answered in the bottom of the inning when the Cougars took a 4-2 lead scoring two runs on five hits. Rebecca Mueller paced CofC in the batter's box going 2-3 driving in three RBI's while four other Cougars contributed an RBI apiece.

Senior Hope Klicker (1-1) put in five strong innings allowing only one earned run picking up her first win of 2015 before Samantha Martin entered in the sixth inning striking out four of the six batters she faced.

Game Two: CofC 11, Army 0 (5 inn.) (Box Score) 

The College of Charleston plating 10 runs in the bottom of the fourth inning added with Samantha Martin's two-hit shut out made for a dominating 11-0 five-inning win in the nightcap against Army  

The Cougars earned an early 1-0 lead in the first despite not having a hit. After three hitless innings the bats came alive as CofC scored 10 runs on eight hits that saw eight different Cougars knocking in an RBI. Brianna Davis capped off the big inning with a two-run double.

Martin (1-0) was dominant throughout her first start in 2015, retiring 15 straight batters at one point and not surrendering a walk in her five shut out innings.