FLORENCE, Al. – The Bellarmine University softball team opened the final week of regular season play with a pair of losses at North Alabama, falling 9-0 in game one and 4-0 in game two at Hilda B. Anderson Stadium.
Bellarmine (12-37, 5-18) battled for the first four innings of game one before the North Alabama offense exploded to end the game via mercy rule.
The Lions scored the first run of the game in the opening inning before adding a second run in the fourth. In the fifth, the Lions exploded, putting up seven runs, capped off by a two-run walk off home run to push the lead to 9-0 and enact the mercy rule.
A pair of freshmen collected the lone hits for the Knights in
Jayla Manning and
Tia Ice with one each.
In game two, the first four innings went by without much action as a second pitcher's duel was in progress.
North Alabama broke the game open in the fifth, putting up four runs on five hits to jump ahead 4-0 before cruising to a second win on the day.
Sophomore
Makenzie Cowburn tossed a 6.0 inning complete game, allowing the four runs on eight hits and five walks while recording three strikeouts.
Three Knights combined for the team's three total hits as Ice, sophomore
Lauren Guthrie and junior
Brooke Shewmaker all collected one each.
Up next, Bellarmine will play its final game of the regular season on Sunday, May 2, wrapping up the series at North Alabama.
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