BLUE MOUNTAIN, Miss. - Stillman College Softball closed the regular season Friday afternoon with an 11-5 win and 1-0 loss in Southern States Athletic Conference action at Blue Mountain Christian University. The split locked up the No. 4 seed in the upcoming SSAC Softball Championships.
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GAME 1: STILLMAN 11, BLUE MOUNTAIN 5
Haskins drove in two more runs in the top of the fourth with a home run down the left field line.Â
BMCU rallied with a five-run bottom of the sixth inning, but Stillman answered with a four-run top of the seventh.
Lexi McCray took over in the circle in the sixth inning and gave up two hits in the bottom of the seventh before closing out her third save of the season.Â
Haskins finished the game, 3-for-5 with two runs and four RBI. She was a double shy of the cycle. Bubel, Mayes and Roland each had two hits in the game.Â
Jasmine Wade (5-1) allowed five runs off nine hits and two walks. She struck out six and McCray had two strikeouts.Â
The win was
Joel Penfield's 100th as a college head coach and 100th at Stillman College.
GAME 2: BLUE MOUNTAIN 1, STILLMAN 0
Both teams were hitless until Blue Mountain's Destiny Dill doubled to left with one out in the bottom of the third inning. Mallory Jo Mitchell drove in the only run of the game.Â
Faith Byram took over in the circle for
Elisabeth Boso (7-3) to pitch out of the inning. She gave up only three hits the rest of the game, pitching 4.2 scoreless innings.Â
Stillman was held to two hits in the game, a
Madison Bubel two-out double in the top of the fourth inning and an
Anniston Jones two-out single in the fifth inning.Â
NEXT: Stillman (33-15) will be the No. 4 seed in the Southern States Athletic Conference Softball Championship and will play No. 5 seed Faulkner University in the first game on May 4 at 10 a.m. The winner will meet No. 1 seed University of Mobile at 4 p.m. on May 4.Â