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Sports
The Clarion \ March 18, 2020
BC Softball victories
By Joseph Marvin
Assistant Sports Information Director
NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (March
11, 2020) - The Brevard College softball team
(7-5) extended its spring break winning streak
to five games, claiming victories over Penn
State Harrisburg and Albertus Magnus on
Tuesday afternoon at the Fastpitch Dreams
Spring Classic.
The Tornados used a big five-run sixth
inning to thump the Nittany Lions, 10-3,
while freshman Alyssa Flynn won her third-
consecutive start in a 6-0 shutout victory over
the Falcons.
GAME ONE - BREVARD 10, PENN STATE
HARRISBURG 3
Freshman pitching sensation Jordan Kielson
(4-1) earned the start and the victory for
the Tornados, pitching four innings without
allowing an earned run in her outing. Fellow
freshman right-handed hurler Lea Kindrick
threw three quality innings of shutout ball for
her second save of the 2020 season.
Junior slugger Emily White led four Tornados
who logged multi-hit outings against the
Nittany Lions, going 3-for-4 with two runs
scored, one RBI, and a season-high three
doubles. Ali Grace Hartman, Mikayla Morgan
all tallied two hits apiece, while Hartman and
Micayla McCoy each posted an extra-base hit.
White began her big day at the plate with a
two-out double but was thrown out at the plate
on a Morgan single that kept BC off the board.
Kielson forced three groundouts in the bottom
of the first frame, leaving the score at 0-0.
After back-to-back one-out singles from
Hartman and Bearden, Dowell laid down a
sacrifice bunt that moved the runners over
to second and third base with two outs in the
inning. A squeeze bunt by Franks forced a
fielder’s choice attempt, however, Hartman beat
out the throw at the plate, giving the Tornados
an early 1-0 lead. Surrendering just a one-out
single, Kielson kept the seore in favor of BC
with a strikeout and groundnut.
White led off the top of the third frame with
her second double of the contest that was
followed by a McCoy double to left field that
scored White and extended BC’s advantage
to a 2-0 margin. Kielson erased a two-out
double from PSH with a groundnut, helping
the Tornados maintain their advantage.
Brevard scored a trio of runs in the top of the
fourth off three hits and two Nittany Lion errors
to swell its lead to a 5-0 margin. Franks drove
in her second run of the game on an RBI single
that was followed up by a White RBI double -
her third double of the game - that scored Beth
Hyatt, extending the BC advantage to four runs.
White was brought home after an error, giving
See 'Softball victories' on pg. 15
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Kielson pitched six innings, allowing two
runs on just three hits while striking out five
and walking none. Kindrick then came on to
pitch a perfect seventh inning to earn the save.
At the plate, Hartman went 2-for-3 with two
RBI’s, a run scored and a stolen base to lead the
Tornados’ attack. Left fielder Makenzie Rice
was l-for-3 with an RBI. Folkers and White
also registered runs scored, while Morgan and
catcher Lil Bearden also recorded hits.
After two scoreless innings, Iowa Wesleyan
took a 2-0 lead with a pair of runs in the third
inning.
The Tornados answered in the fourth inning
with an offensive attack that began with a
one-out single by White. Following a walk
by Folkers, Hartman then belted a sharp
ground ball to right field to score both White
and Folkers and tie the game 2-2. Rice then
singled up the middle to score Hartman for the
go-ahead run.
Kielson then protected the lead with a 1 -2-3
inning in the fifth before stranding a runner at
second in the sixth.
Kindrick entered the game to close out the
game in the seventh. The freshman from West
Columbia, South Carolina proceeded to strike
out the first two batters she faced before forcing
a flyout that was caught by BC’s Hyatt in right
field for the final out.
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BC Track & Field
relay highlights
By Joseph Marvin
Assistant Sports Information Director
PEMBROKE, N.C. (March 6, 2020) -
Brevard’s 4x100 meter relay team of Jerel
Dewalt, Jakob Morris, Jamerial Parks, and
Mitchell Yoderclaimed a win in Friday’s
4x100 meter relay race to highlight a strong
overall showing for the Brevard College
men’s and women’s traek & field teams at the
Braves Track Classic on Friday in Pembroke,
North Carolina, hosted by NCAA DII UNC
Pembroke.
The relay squad posted a time of 42.91 to
lead the way in the five-team field. Morris
started the race, with Dewalt and Yoder in
the middle, while Parks served as the team’s
anchor to clinch the victory down the stretch.
The Brevard 4x100 team defeated second-
place Guilford (43:95) by 1.04 seconds with
North Carolina Wesleyan (44:54) plaeing
third.
Freshman distance runner Michael Fader
set his collegiate personal record in his first
career track & field race with a 4:52.21 time
in the men’s 1,500-meter event.
Also in his first collegiate race, BC’s Rami
Kadri finished 10th out of 25 racers with a
time of 53.99 in the men’s 400-meter dash.
Sophomore Timmie Searcy ran a 59.03 in
the same event, good for a 15th-place result.
On the women’s side in the 400-meter
dash, Brevard College freshman Kyndall
Cochran also made an impactful collegiate
debut as well with a 10th place overall result
and a second place in her section with a time
of 1:11.05.
Seven BC Tornados raced in the 100-meter
dash with 4x 100 Relay team members Parks
(13th, 11:52), DeWalt(16th, 11.60), Yoder
(19th, 11.80) and Morris (22nd, 11.85)
leading the way for the Tornados.
The Field events were highlighted by a
number of results in throwing competitions.
Five Tornados placed in the top-15 in the
men’s shot put led by an eighth-place finish
by sophomore Ari Drake (10.73). Junior
Gabriel Covington (10th, 9.88), freshman
Evan McAdams(l 1th, 9.82), freshman
Walt Robinson (12th; 9.19) and freshman
Nathaniel Hill (14th, 6.54) also placed for
Brevard.
See 'Track & Field' on page 13