Skip To Main Content
Skip To Main Content

Belmont Abbey College

The Official Website of Belmont Abbey Athletics
Adison Yoder
Timothy Shar
2
Southern Wesleyan SWU 3-34
7
Winner Belmont Abbey BAC 12-21
Southern Wesleyan SWU
3-34
2
Final
7
Belmont Abbey BAC
12-21
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Southern Wesleyan SWU 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 3 0
Belmont Abbey BAC 3 0 2 0 0 2 X 7 11 2

W: Yoder, Adison (8-7) L: E. Lawton (0-7)

3
Southern Wesleyan SWU 3-35, 1-19 CC
8
Winner Belmont Abbey BAC 13-21, 8-10 CC
Southern Wesleyan SWU
3-35, 1-19 CC
3
Final
8
Belmont Abbey BAC
13-21, 8-10 CC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Southern Wesleyan SWU 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 7 0
Belmont Abbey BAC 1 0 0 0 2 5 X 8 9 0

W: Yoder, Adison (9-7) L: A. Barnhardt (1-11)

Game Recap: Softball |

Crusaders Complete Sweep of Southern Wesleyan

BELMONT, N.C. – The Belmont Abbey softball team earned a pair of key Conference Carolinas wins with a doubleheader sweep over Southern Wesleyan Thursday afternoon at Crusader Field.
 
The Crusaders opened the day with a 7-2 victory before rallying for an 8-3 win in the second game. The doubleheader was moved up a day due to forecasted inclement weather for Friday.
 
Mackenzie Sprinkle had five this on the day for the Crusaders, including the go-ahead two-run single in the bottom of the sixth inning in the second game. Adison Yoder earned a pair of complete-game wins in the circle for The Abbey and is now 9-7 on the season.
 
Belmont Abbey improves to 13-21 overall, 8-10 in the league. Southern Wesleyan is 3-35, 1-19 in the league.
 
GAME 1
  • The Crusaders got off to a fast start with a three-run first inning highlighted by a two-run home run from Bailey Presley. The long ball was the first career home run for the junior center fielder.
  • The Warriors scored twice in the third inning but The Abbey responded with an RBI double and RBI single from Sprinkle and Trinity Wall.
  • Hallie Mele capped the scoring with a two-run home run in the sixth inning.
  • Four Crusaders finished with multiple hits in the opener: Sprinkle had three while Mele, Sydney Pon and Ruthie Allen had two each.
  • Yoder allowed just three hits and one walk in the Game 1 win.
 
GAME 2
  • Southern Wesleyan took an early 3-1 lead through the first two innings.
  • The lone run for the Crusaders in that stretch came from an RBI single by Sprinkle in the bottom of the first inning.
  • Belmont Abbey rallied to tie the game in the fifth with Yoder helping her own cause with a sacrifice fly followed by an RBI single from Mackenzie Allison to tie the game.
  • The Crusaders broke the game open with a five-run outburst in the sixth inning.
  • Sprinkle's two-run single gave The Abbey the lead before Allison hit a bases-clearing double to help put the game away.
  • Belmont Abbey sent all nine batters to the plate in the inning.
  • Yoder finished the doubleheader with 168 pitches over the two games and had two hits in the second game.
 
UP NEXT
  • The Crusaders play their final nonconference series of the season against Tusculum beginning at 1 p.m. Saturday at Crusader Field.
  • Four seniors will be honored as part of Senior Day festivities.  
Print Friendly Version
Belmont Abbey College loading logo