Cougars Down Monmouth to Clinch Series

Sunday, April 16

Patriots Point

12:00 PM

College of Charleston

15-24, 9-6

Monmouth

7-28, 6-12

Monmouth

Charleston

4/16/2023 2:33:00 PM | Softball

Box Score

Mt. Pleasant, S.C. - College of Charleston earned its fourth CAA series victory of the season with a 6-3 win over Monmouth in the rubber game Sunday at Patriots Point.

The Cougars have won seven of their last nine conference games to improve to 9-6. The nine league wins are the most since 2019.

Caroline Conner picked up her second win of the weekend and eighth of her freshman season. She allowed a run in the first but only two other hits over the first six innings until the Hawks threatened a five-run Cougar lead in the seventh.

Monmouth scored two runs and had runners on first and third with one out before Conner secured the victory by getting a pair of infield popups. She finished with three strikeouts after fanning a career-high 11 in Saturday's win and lowered her ERA to a team-best 3.12.

Charleston answered Monmouth's first inning run with three in the bottom of the inning, bunching together four hits including an RBI double by Malaka Belser and run-scoring single by Sierra Paradis.

A solo home run by Karlee Hughes, her third of the season, made it 4-1 in the second, and Mia Dittoe doubled and scored on a Halle Cannon sacrifice fly in the third for a 5-1 advantage. Dittoe and Shealyn Starks both had three of Charleston's 10 hits with Starks also adding a two-base knock.

The Cougars tacked on their final run in the fifth on an error, a Dittoe single and successful squeeze bunt by Mary-Kathryn Scott.

Charleston hosts South Carolina State in a doubleheader Wednesday at 1 p.m. and returns to CAA play next weekend with three games at North Carolina A&T.