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Sports
The Clarion | Feb. 22, 2008
Women's tennis defeats Emmanuel 7-2
(Left) Marek Slagle
leaps for a ball
during her and
Kimberlee
Cooper's 8-3 win in
No. 3 doubles.
(Right) Lindsay
Schaeffer waits
intently for her
match to resume.
Schaeffer won the
No. 1 singles
match in straight
sets, 6-0, 6-2. This
meet was the last
chance to see the
tennis team at
home until March
26 when they host
Mars l-iill College.
photo by Liza Sholokhova
photo by Liza Sholokhova
Softball storms to impressive start
by Johnny Lange
Sports Editor
After straggling through a
difficuh season in 2007 that
saw only one victory, the Lady
Tornados softball team have
come out of the gate swinging
compiling a 6-4 record. This
past week the Tornados swept
Montreat and split a double-
header with Lees-McRae.
In the opening contest
against Montreat (0-8) on
Valentines Day, the Tornados
jumped out to an early lead
putting up two rans in the P‘
iiming and adding another in
the 3'“* before Montreat could
reply with 2 rans in the top of
the 5*. The next iiming saw the
Tornados answer back with a
ran and sophomore Jennifer
Gift (3-2 on the season)
slammed the door shut
preserving the 4-2 victory.
Game two against Montreat
was a bit of a different story.
After falling behind on an early
Montreat homer, the Tornados
took a 2-1 lead in the third
iiming. In the 4* and 5* innings
Montreat scored one ran each
to reclaim the lead at 3 -2. In the
bottom of the 7* the Tornados
still trailing but battled through
and won on a game winning
RBIby junior Katie Thornburg
that scored sophomore Kristina
Clayton who went 3-4 with two
runs scored for the game.
Jennifer Gift picked up her
second win of the day and
improved her record to 4-2.
On Saturday the Tornados
welcomed Lees-McRae to
campus and lost the opening
contest 4-0, snapping their 5
game winning streak. In the
second half of the double-
header the Tornados took a 1-0
lead in the bottom of the 6‘*'
inning thanks to a wild pitch
by the Bobcats pitcher After
knotting things up in the top
of the 7* inning Lees-McRae
took the lead in top of the 8*
by a score of 2-1. The Tornados
however got that ran back and
won the game on a double by
senior Kristen Tettemer that
pushed sophomore Jennifer
Brown across the plate.
Sophomore Jennifer Gift (5-3)
picked up another win after
relieving senior Aimee Rogers
who gave up one ran over 6 2/
3'“* innings.
The Tomados finish off their
home stand this weekend with
double-headers against
Mountain State on Friday and
Milligan on Sunday. Bothtwin-
bills begin at 2 RM.
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