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Alyssa Barwick in her pitching motion
0
Methodist MUSB 18-19
2
Winner Greensboro GREENSBO 31-8
Methodist MUSB
18-19
0
Final
2
Greensboro GREENSBO
31-8
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Methodist MUSB 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1
Greensboro GREENSBO 0 0 0 2 0 0 X 2 8 0

W: K. Simmons (13-5) L: Barwick, Alyssa (7-8)

Game Recap: Softball | | Michael Spratt

Methodist Drops Opening Game of USA South Tournament to Greensboro

GREENSBORO, N.C.  On Thursday afternoon, the Methodist University softball team played its first game of the 2023 USA South Softball Tournament, in the bracket hosted by Greensboro College. The seventh seeded Monarchs struggled on offense and ended up losing, 2-0, to the second seeded Pride at Barber Park.

THE ESSENTIALS
Final results: Greensboro def. Methodist, 2-0
Records: Methodist 18-19, Greensboro 31-8
Location: Barber Park; Greensboro, North Carolina
HOW IT HAPPENED
  • Neither side was able to score in the first three innings of play. Though Greensboro had its chances in all three, stranding six total people. Each inning saw the Pride have runners in scoring position with less than two outs, but Methodist starting pitcher Alyssa Barwick managed to get out of each jam without giving up a run.
  • After being held hitless, Claire Cummings recorded the first hit, in the top of the fourth, for the Monarchs and eventually made it all the way to third. That was as far as she would make it before Greensboro stopped the momentum.
  • The scoreless tie came to an end in the bottom half of the fourth. First, Brooke Kinley got on with a base hit and then a Methodist throwing error, on a M'Kenzie Davis sacrifice bunt, allowed both Greensboro runners to score.
  • In the fifth, the Monarchs had a chance to tie the ballgame up with runners on second and third but were able to get them home.
STAT FACTS
  • The Pride sent out Kassie Simmons to the circle, and she shutout Methodist in a complete-game two-hitter, where she also struck out eight batters.
  • Barwick pitched well for the Monarchs by going four innings and giving up two (unearned) runs. Emma Neeley came on in relief for the last two innings.
  • Kinley and Kailey Walker for Greensboro were the only two hitters that registered multiple hits, two each, for the entire game.
UP NEXT
Methodist is slotted to play in the loser's part of the bracket with game scheduled for Friday at 12 p.m. The Monarchs await the loser of the North Carolina Wesleyan University (No. 3 seed) and Mary Baldwin University (No. 6 seed) game. 
    
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