RALEIGH, N.C. - Meredith softball took both games of a softball doubleheader from North Carolina Wesleyan, beating the Battling Bishops 9-7 and 6-3.

In Game 1, Meredith jumped out a 4-1 lead after two innings which featured a two-run triple by Tatum Smith in the second. NC Wesleyan would fight back to tie the game, 4-4, in the top of the fourth inning. Meredith would regain the lead in the fifth as Susanne Taylor would drive in a pair of runs. After the Bishops cut the deficit in half in the top of the sixth, Meredith would add to their lead with three more runs in the bottom of the inning, eventually winning 9-7. Hannah Weigle earned the win, while Danielle Hunt earned the save.

Game 2 saw the Avenging trailing 3-2 going into the bottom of the fifth, but a Brie Caldwell sacrifice fly knotted the score. In the sixth, Meredith would push three runs across the plate, capped off by a Smith single that scored Alyssa Drake. Weigle would close the door in the seventh for her second win of the day. 

Smith finished the afternoon 5-for-8 from the plate with two runs and four RBI, including a pair of triples. Sarah Manis was 4-for-6 with two runs and three RBI.