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Montgomery, AL -- The Piedmont College softball team claimed the Great South Athletic Conference tournament title this afternoon in dramatic fashion having to come from behind for the third consecutive game. The Lions broke a tie game with conference member LaGrange College in the bottom of the eighth inning to claim its first GSAC tournament title since 2005.
Piedmont opened the scoring up with a bang in the bottom of the first as freshman infielder
Rebecca Renfroe blasted a homer giving PC a 1-0 advantage. The Lady Lions were not yet done at the plate as sophomore
Emily Cheek went yard two batters later to extend the lead to two.
LaGrange would battle back in the top of the fourth scoring three runs of its own to surge ahead of Piedmont 3-2. It was Renfroe who would collect another Lady Lion RBI on a single in the bottom of the fifth to tie the game up at three a piece.
After two innings of scoreless softball, the two squads would push on to extra innings still tied at three.
Rebecca Renfroe then wrapped up a storybook day at the plate leading off the bottom of the eighth inning with her second solo homer of the game to give the Lady Lions the walk-off 4-3 victory.
Getting the win on the mound for PC was junior pitcher #B.J. Cofer# who went all eight innings for the Lady Lions allowing just two earned runs on five hits while fanning five. Cofer was also named the 2010 GSAC Tournament Most Valuable Player for her efforts having thrown every tournament inning for PC.
With the win, the Lady Lions move to 29-10 overall while grabbing the Great South Athletic Conference tournament championship after already laying claim to the GSAC regular season title. By virtue of the winning the conference tournament, Piedmont receives an automatic berth in the NCAA Division III National Tournament with its regional destination to be named later.
The NCAA appearance will be the program's second since the school gained full-fledged NCAA Division III membership in 2003. The Lady Lions earned a spot in the Salem, VA regional in 2006. The Lady Lions will learn the location of their regional tournament on Monday, May 10 during the official NCAA selection announcement. The NCAA regional tournaments will take place on May 14-17 at eight different locations across the country.
