Yari Felix Plays Role of Hero in Victory Over Winthrop

Sunday, March 11

Patriots Point

12:15 PM

College of Charleston

15-8

Winthrop

9-9

Winthrop

Col. of Charleston

Yari Felix Plays Role of Hero in Victory Over Winthrop

3/11/2018 6:16:00 PM | Softball

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Mount Pleasant, S.C. – Yari Felix capped a rally in the bottom of the ninth by doubling in a pair of runs to lift the College of Charleston to a 7-6 victory over Winthrop on the final day of the Holy City Showdown at Patriots Point.

The Cougars (15-8) won three of four in the tournament heading into a busy week which will see them play a doubleheader against Duke on Wednesday before hosting the Charleston Invitational beginning with a twinbill against Eastern Illinois on Thursday.

Winthrop took a 6-5 lead in the top of the ninth before the the Cougars staged their second comeback in three innings. Dexlie Inman was placed on second as per the softball tiebreaker rule, and one out later Taylor DuPree singled and stole second.

Felix followed by lining a 1-1 pitch into right center to bring home both runners, capping a weekend which saw her knock out seven hits and score four times. Felix also shined in center field, grabbing a long fly ball on the warning track and making a diving catch on a shallow line drive, with both web gems coming in the third inning.

Summer Jenkins worked the final 2.2 innings in relief of starter Izzy Berouty and allowed only one hit and one unearned run to win her third game of the season.

Charleston held a 3-0 lead before the Eagles stormed back with three in the fifth and two in the seventh to go in front 5-3. The Cougars were down to their final out in the bottom of the inning when they began their first rally of the day.

Felix and Kelly Sinclair reached on two-out singles, and Jordin Jones blasted one that seemed ticketed for a game-winning three-run homer. But her drive to left hit the fence with the double bringin home the tying runs to force extra innings. Jones' three RBI in the tournament moved her into a tie for 12th in school history with 92.

DuPree, Felix and Sinclair each had three hits as the top of the Cougar order went 9-for-13 with four runs scored and four RBI. Sinclair had seven hits and drove in six runs during the tournament, while DuPree had nine hits and moved into second place in school history with 234, only 16 behind record-holder Amanda Cone (2001-04).

Sara Garcia gave Charleston an early lead with an RBI single in the first, and Sinclair made it 3-0 with a two-run base hit in the second. But the Cougars couldn't score again off Winthrop pitcher Kiley Majette until the Jones and Felix late-game heroics.