Sunday, February 24, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: David Beall, Sports Information Director

#16 SAINTS DROP A PAIR AT CHARGER CHILLOUT
North Georgia returns home 2-2 at tourney

Game 1 | Game 2

DECATUR, AL –The 16th-ranked North Georgia College & State University softball team dropped their first games of the season Sunday afternoon, falling 4-3 to Missouri Western and 5-4 in eight innings to Lewis University at the UAH Charger Chillout.

In game one, the Saints got clutch hits from Leslee Smith and Laura Voyles, but a walk-off hit by Missouri Western sealed the 4-3 win and handed North Georgia their first loss of the season. Voyles came to the plate with one out in the seventh and blasted her third home run of the year to tie the game 3-3, but MWU came out and used a bases loaded single to grab the one run win. Sarah Phillips (5-1) suffered her first loss of the season, pitching the seventh inning and not a recording an out while allowing the winning run.

In game two, another one run defeat was the story, this time in extra innings as a wild pitch sealed the Saints fate. The loss was overshadowed by another clutch performance by Voyles who hit her fourth and fifth home runs of the year, and drove in three runs. Voyles finds herself leading the team in batting average at .514, home runs with five, and she sits atop three different offensive categories in the Peach Belt Conference.

The Saints were on the brink of taking three of four at the UAH Charger Chillout, but single runs in the seventh and eighth innings downed North Georgia in extra innings at the hands of Lewis University who improved to 2-6 on the young season.

North Georgia (10-2) will return to action hosting Erskine College Friday, February 29, for a double-header starting at 2:30 p.m.

-NGCSU-

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