RALEIGH, N.C. - The Meredith College softball team capped off the weekend with a pair of losses to the visiting Greensboro College Pride Sunday afternoon (10-3, 8-0).

Game 1
A Pride three-run triple closed out the first half of the first stanza to jump start an offensive game, but the Avenging Angels responded in the bottom half. Alyssa Drake led off with a single, and Madison Hamilton did the same. Anna Goldman took one for the team to move the runners, and Fallon Wimberly scored Alyssa Drake with a drive to right field. Hamilton advanced home too after the right fielder bobbled the ball to close the inning 3-2.

A quiet second stanza led to a three-run third and a four-run fourth for Greensboro to spread the gap to 10-2. In the bottom of four, Susanne Taylor and Goldman each registered a hit, and Hamilton advanced on an error to load the bases for rookie Laura Tobin. Patient at the plate, Tobin walked in Taylor to prevent Meredith's early exit from the game. Neither team scored again, taking the game through the full seven innings.

The Avenging Angels used four pitchers, but Brie Caldwell recorded the loss with six earned runs on six hits with three walks, striking out one. Cheyanne Cox collected her fifth win for the Pride

Game 2
Sarah Gundlach took the hit in game two, as the Pride scored four unearned and five total runs in the first two innings. Danielle Hunt replaced her in the third and the defense took some shape for a three-up-three-down inning to hold the Pride. But two more unearned runs in the fourth left the Angels in a 7-0 hole too deep to climb.

Wimberly singled in the fourth with Tobin and Drake in the fifth, but the Angels could find no way across the plate to hold back GC. One more run in the sixth left MCSB in jeapardy of an early exit. Wimberly scrapped her way to first, and Tatum Smith moved her to second, but neither made it home.

Gundlach took the loss, earning just one run on five hit, one walk, and one strikeout. Hunt faced 18 batters in her four innings, allowing four hits with one earned run, one walk, and a pair of strikeouts.

Greensboro's Kassie Simmons pitched the first five innings to earn the Pride win with two earned runs on eight hits with three walks, striking out four.

The Mary Baldwin Fighting Squirrels are next up for the Angels with a 1 p.m. USA South doubleheader set for Saturday, March 20. Follow the live action HERE, as spectators are limited.

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