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Softball's 2-1 Win Over Lady Scots Keeps Title Hopes Alive For Now

Contact: Timmy McCormack, Sports Information Director

Senior B.J. Cofer turned in an eight strikeout performance in this afternoon's tight 2-1 victory over the Lady Scots of Maryville College that kept the Lady Lions alive in the GSAC championship tournament down in Macon.
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Macon, GA -- The Piedmont College softball team stayed alive in the Great South Athletic Conference championship tournament with a tight 2-1 victory over the third-seeded Lady Scots of Maryville College earlier this afternoon.  The Lady Lions got a lights out performance from their senior-freshman dynamic pitching duo to set up their second elimination game of the day with an evening game against LaGrange College tonight.

Against the Lady Scots of Maryville, Piedmont's two first inning runs proved to go the distance for the top-seeded Lady Lions.  After shortstop Megan McClain reached on an error, the Lady Lion infielder was doubled in by senior Raley White for PC's first score just before White scored later in the inning on another Lady Scot miscue to round out the two-run first.

Piedmont then turned to veteran arm #B.J. Cofer# to help them hang on with that pair of scores - a task that the senior pitcher was more than up to as she went strong for six and a third allowing a single Lady Scot score on seven hits striking out an incredible eight Maryville batters.  Finding his team in a bases-loaded, one-out situation in the bottom of the seventh, Head Coach Terry Martin then turned the ball over to the freshman pitcher Brittney Head to record the game's final two outs with hopes of staying alive in tourney action.

The youngster answered the call of her 13-year veteran head coach in a pressure situation with a chance to send her team past the Lady Scots.  Head induced a grounder to third baseman Jamie Dennis for the second out of the ninth before blowing three straight strikes past a swinging Lady Scot to close the door on any rally attempt from Maryville putting the Lady Lions into their second elimination game of the day against LaGrange College.

Cofer took the win against the Maryville squad working just over six innings issuing three walks to her eight strikeouts picking up her 11th win of the 2011 season.  Head earned the save in a rare opportunity, the first save of her collegiate career. 

The victory moves the Lady Lions to 24-13 on the year and 2-1 in the GSAC tourney.  Piedmont now moves on to face a fourth-seeded LaGrange squad in the night cap of softball Saturday at the MAC later this evening.
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