Softball

USC Upstate Falls 2-1 at Longwood in 15-Inning Thriller

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Farmville, Va. – The USC Upstate softball team closed out a three-game series with the Longwood Lancers on Sunday falling 2-1 in 15 innings at Lancer Field in a game televised on ESPNU.

USC Upstate falls to 23-10 on the season and 5-4 in Big South play while Longwood improves to 17-11 overall and 5-1 in the conference.

Scoring Breakdown

  • Top 1st – Brittany Case put the Spartans ahead 1-0 with two outs on her RBI infield single. Sarah Price scored from second base on Case's single after starting the game with a single to center field and then stole second.
  • Bottom 4th – The Lancers tied the game at 1-1 on Karleigh Donvan's RBI sacrifice fly to left field.
  • Bottom 15th – Kaylynn Batten won the game for Longwood on her walk off home run to center field and made the final score 2-1.

Notables

  • Tonight marked the longest game for USC Upstate in the Division I era at 15 innings.
  • Christina Biggerstaff (14-3) suffered the loss throwing 14.2 innings and gave up two runs on eight hits, four walks and six strikeouts.
  • Sydney Backstrom (7-6) earned the win in relief throwing four scoreless innings and allowed one hit, one walk and two strikeouts.
  • Kristen Wright led the Spartans offensively with two hits.
  • Price, Case, Megan Obier, Madison Lanoux and Savannah Grigsby each collected one hit.
  • Case recorded one RBI.
  • Batten and Jordan Clark had two hits apiece for the Lancers.
  • Batten and Donovan contributed one RBI.

UP NEXT

  • USC Upstate is back at Cyrill Stadium this weekend, March 30-31, to host Hampton in a three-game conference series.

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