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Follow Ursuline Athletics on FacebookFollow Ursuline Softball on TwitterGame One Box Score // Game Two Box Score // Game Three Box ScoreNASHVILLE - Each of the last two softball seasons has ended with Trevecca University capturing the Great Midwest Athletic Conference championship. The Ursuline College softball team found out how good the Trojans are this weekend as Trevecca swept Ursuline in a three-game series.
In Friday's (March 27) doubleheader, Trevecca won game one 13-0 in five innings before taking game two, 6-2. The series wrapped up with the Trojans winning Saturday's (March 28) lone game 7-5 thanks to a three-run walk-off homer by Lindsey Stephens.
UC has lost seven of its last eight and sits at 7-11 overall and 0-6 in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference. Trevecca is 14-5 and 6-0 in G-MAC play.
In Friday's first game, UC was out-hit 11-4 and the home team had three doubles and three home runs. Trevecca pushed 11 runs across in the third inning and never looked back.
Game two saw Ursuline jump out to a 2-0 lead after sophomore Kaitlin Krajcik singled home junior Alison Porter and senior Sam Roberts but the Trojans countered with two runs in the home half of the inning to tie the game at two after one.
Stephens (4-3) pitched game two for Trevecca and shut down the Arrows after the first, only allowing three more hits the rest of the game. She helped her own cause with a pair of hits and scored twice.
Trevecca scored the go-ahead run in the fourth inning after Stephens started the inning with a double and later scored. The home team's three-run sixth put the game out of reach.
In Saturday's finale, the Arrows again struck first with a run off Trevecca senior pitcher Kelsey Kemp. Freshman Leah Leshnack singled to the left side and that brought in Roberts to stake UC sophomore pitcher Brittany Humbel to a 1-0 lead.
The Trojans put three on the board in the third but UC wouldn't go away easily and made it a 3-2 game in the top of the fourth when Leshnack stole home.
Roberts drilled a one-out double in the sixth and after the next batter was retired, sophomore Carly Hoffner drove in Leshnack with a two-out single to center. Humbel delivered the big blow in the three-run sixth when she doubled to score Krajcik and junior Danielle Almodiel.
Trevecca cut into the deficit with a run in the bottom of the sixth that made it a 5-4 game and then kept it close by shutting down the UC offense in the top of the seventh.
Kemp started the Trojan seventh when she doubled to left and then Mackenzie Leding, who represented the winning run, singled to put two on for Stephens.
UC head coach Sue Woodford brought in freshman Gina Rosshirt to replace Humbel in the circle and she faced just one batter as Stephens ended the game with her three-run dinger to center.
