TIGERVILLE, S.C. -- Casey Laing homered twice during a four-hit afternoon, driving in three runs in the second game of the doubleheader, helping Belmont Abbey to a split with North Greenville in Conference Carolinas softball action Friday afternoon.
The Crusaders lost the opener 3-1 before taking the nightcap 9-2.
The Abbey is now 20-22 overall and 7-13 in league play, while the Trailblazers sit 26-18, 12-10.
THE OPENER
- Belmont Abbey outhit North Greenville 7-6, but a two-run double broke a 1-1 tie in the fifth.
- Sage Farmer and Lily Garnett-Brown each had two hits with Laing, Payton Colbert and Lauren Huebsch providing the rest of the offense.
- Farmer drove in the lone run with a single to center.
- Kayla Milam (3-5) took the loss despite allowing just three runs in 6.0 innings. She scattered six hit and did not walk a batter, while striking out four.
THE NIGHTCAP
- Laing went 3-for-5 with two home runs and three runs batted in. Batting second, she had a two-run shot in the first.
- Farmer, Trinity Wall and Abby Peisker added two hits each with Wall and Peyton Colbert both driving in a pair.
- Belmont Abbey jumped out a 5-0 lead after the first inning in part to a two-run homer by Laing. A wild pitch increased the lead to 3-0 before Wall and Peisker delivered RBI singles later in the frame.
- Wall made the score 6-1 with an infield single in the third, then Laing added a solo blast in the fourth.
- Lilly Hartsell threw a complete-game six-hitter to improve to 10-9. She struck out five without walking a batter in allowing just one unearned run.
UP NEXT
- Belmont Abbey plays its final road games of the season on Tuesday.
- The Crusaders travel to Banner Elk to face Northwest Division rival Lees-McRae. They swept the Bobcats in the first meetings late last month.
