USC Upstate Falls Short to Kennesaw State in ASUN Softball Championship Game

Saturday, May 12

DeLand, Fla.

1 pm

University of South Carolina Upstate Athletics

35-19

Kennesaw State

39-15

USC Upstate

Kennesaw State

5/12/2018 12:00:00 AM | Softball

Box Score

Box Score (.pdf)

DeLand, Fla. – The USC Upstate softball team dropped an 8-4 decision to the top-seeded Kennesaw State Owls on Saturday afternoon in the championship game of the ASUN Softball Championship from Patricia Wilson Field.

USC Upstate falls to 35-19 overall while Kennesaw State improved to 39-15 on the season.

Scoring Breakdown

Bottom 2^nd – The Owls scored four times in their half of the second to take a 4-0 lead over the Spartans. Patricia Awald began the scoring with a solo home run to left field and Olivia Tamewitz followed by reaching on an error that allowed Andrea Summey to score. Alexa Solorzano plated two more runs with her two-RBI single.
Bottom 3^rd – An RBI sacrifice bunt from Jessie Mullen drove in Maddie Roth from third base.
Top 4^th – Karla Beasley and Logan Morris got USC Upstate on the board with back-to-back home runs to start the inning and cut Kennesaw State's lead to 5-2. It was the 16^th home run of the season for Beasley and eighth for Morris.
Top 6^th – Megan Obier made it a 5-4 game with two outs on her two-RBI triple to right center field that scored Morris and Brittany Case. Morris reached on an infield single and Case singled to center field.
Bottom 6^th – The Owls responded with three runs to increase their lead to 8-4 on RBI's from Tamewitz and Joirea Dumas. Tamewitz then scored on a Spartan error.

Notables

Alley Cutting (17-8) earned the win in relief pitching 3.2 innings and allowed two runs on four hits, no walks and one strikeout.
Erin Hill (10-4) suffered the loss giving up four runs (one earned) on six hits, no walks and one strikeout in 1.2 innings of work.
Morris and Case both went 2-for-2 at the plate for USC Upstate while Morris scored twice and Case once.
Obier drove in a team-high two RBI after going 1-for-2.
Morris added one RBI along with Beasley.
Tamewitz and Awald both collected two hits for Kennesaw State while Solorzano added two RBI.
The Spartans had three representatives placed on the ASUN All-Tournament Team in Morris, Hannah Davis and Christina Biggerstaff.
Beasley hit her 45^th career home run in the contest and finishes third all-time at USC Upstate in career home runs, one behind Stacey Berrong (1996-99).

Follow USC Upstate softball on Facebook (UpstateAthletics), Twitter (@UpstateSoftball), Instagram (@upstatespartans), YouTube (USCUpstateAthletics) and text/e-mail alerts (www.upstatespartans.com/list-signup).