Lady Koalas Fall Late on Road at Brenau

GAINESVILLE, Ga. - The Columbia College Softball team dropped both ends of their conference doubleheader at Brenau University on Sunday. The Koalas fell 10-0 in game one and 11-3 in game two. 

Recording hits for the Koalas in game one were junior SS Ashlynn Wolff, freshman 1B Ashlyn Blackstone and senior OF Lana Hampson. In the circle in the opener was senior pitcher Ally Boyd who went just two innings allowing four runs on five hits with a walk while sophomore reliever Madison Cheek permitted five runs on four hits with two walks over 1 and 1/3 innings. Senior reliever Amanda Lohrey then struck out one while allowing a home run over 2/3 of the 4th inning.

In game two, the Koalas totaled 8 hits led by a 3-hit, one RBI game from sophomore 3B Elaina Seymour. A. Boyd led the team with two RBI while Seymour's RBI triple in the third inning tied the game at two. Seymour then scored on an error by BU on the next play on Boyd's batted ball to take their only lead of the game at 3-2.

Brenau then retook the lead at 4-3 in the bottom of the third off Koala starter, junior pitcher Maddie Vaughn. Unfortunately, the Tigers scored six runs in the 5th inning off Vaughn on three run-scoring hits and an error to break the game open and take a 10-3 lead. Brenau clinched the 8-run win an inning later off freshman reliever Nealy Lockner. Vaughn allowed 9 hits and 8 earned runs on 2 walks and a strikeout over 4 and 1/3 innings while Lockner pitched into the sixth inning allowing one unearned run on 3 hits with 2 walks and a strikeout.

Also recording hits in game two for the Koalas were outfielders Hampson and freshman Krislyn Wilder as well as infielders Joni Littlejohn, Ashlynn Wolff and Boyd. Scoring runs were Wolff, Wilder, and Seymour.

Columbia falls to 16-14 overall and 4-10 in the conference while Brenau improves to 7-1 in the AAC and into a tie for first place while they are 16-8 overall.