WILLIAMSBURG, Ky. – After multiple game cancellations, the Asbury University softball team finally got back to the field for the first time on Sunday.
The Eagles made the most of their season opener as they kicked off the 2021 year with a big-time 6-1 win over No. 11 Campbellsville.
Asbury split its season-opening doubleheader as they dropped the second game to the University of the Cumberlands, 7-1.
Asbury moves to 1-1 on the year and will return to action on Tuesday at No. 10 Georgia Gwinnett.
Game one
*Head Coach
Megan Curry collected her first career win at AU after the Eagles scored five runs in the top of the seventh to ultimately pull away from Campbellsville.
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McKenzie Meyer was fantastic in the circle, pitching a complete game and striking out 10 to collect the victory.
*Campbellsville scored its only run of the game in the second inning after loading up the bases in the first two frames.
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Madilyn Choate scored the first run of the year for AU in fourth inning.
*Asbury would score five runs on four hits in the seventh, as
Brynna Reynolds' two-RBI double gave AU a 3-1 lead.
*Reynolds would score moments later off an error in the outfield, followed by an RBI groundout from
Bree Sanders, which scored
Madison Moss to make it 5-1 Asbury.
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Taylor Enlow connected on an RBI single up the middle and brought home
Harley Wagoner for the fifth run of the inning.
*CU stranded 11 baserunners throughout the contest.
*Sanders and
Ashleigh Bobo each recorded multi-hit games with two hits apiece.
*The Eagles finished with eight hits as a team in the victory.
Game two
*The Eagles' offense struggled to get things going in game two as they were limited to only three hits in the loss.
*The game was scoreless after two innings of play, but the Patriots broke through in the bottom of the third with a run.
*Cumberlands would add two runs apiece in the fourth, fifth, and sixth innings.
*Enlow hit a double in the seventh and would later score off a wild pitch in the inning, marking the Eagles' only run in the game.
*Enlow started game two and pitched 3.2 innings.
Abby Ponder would pitch the rest of the contest in relief.
*UC finished with seven hits and Asbury left three runners on base.
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Abby Fletcher and Reynolds both reached base on singles for the other two hits in the game for AU.
