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Softball Staves Off Elimination In GSAC Tourney To Force Deciding Second Game

Contact: Timmy McCormack, Sports Information Director

First baseman Megan Kesler's RBI single in the bottom of the fifth gave Piedmont its first offensive life of the day as the Lady Lions roared back late for a 5-1 victory in the first championship game of Sunday afternoon at the MAC.
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Macon, GA -- The Piedmont College softball team pushed off elimination for a fourth time on the weekend at the Great South Athletic Conference championship tournament with a 5-1 comeback win over the Lady Hawks of Huntingdon College earlier this afternoon.  The Lady Lions dug an early hole on a error trying to catch a Huntingdon runner stealing third, but the offensive power of PC came alive late with five runs over the fifth and sixth innings to power the Georgia program past HC forcing a decisive second championship game later this afternoon.

An early throwing mistake led to a Lady Hawk score in the top of the first putting the tournament's top seed behind from the very start 1-0.  Despite the quick disadvantage, freshman pitcher Brittney Head settled in a big spot for the title-hopeful Lady Lions as that score would be the only one the youngster would allow on the day as she collected eight strikeouts tossing all seven innings for Piedmont.

PC found their groove at the plate just in time rallying with a three-run fifth to take their first lead of the day as three RBI singles from Megan Kesler, Amy Thompson, and Megan McClain spurred the home team scoring.  Piedmont's five hits and three runs in the fifth proved to be costly for the Lady Hawks knocking the GSAC Pitcher of the Year from HC out of the contest for a few vital at-bats.

Kesler and Thompson added two more RBI singles in the PC sixth to continue to push the lead up to 5-1 through six complete innings as the Lady Lions then stood just three short outs from forcing a second game on championship Sunday at the MAC.  The freshman thrower Head then needed just eight pitches to collect those three seventh inning outs striking out two of the Lady Hawks' final three batters to send Piedmont to that second game against Huntingdon set for 2:30 pm this afternoon.

The Lady Lions are now 26-13 overall and 4-1 in the current GSAC championships.  Piedmont will need a fifth straight victory at the 2011 tournament including a second over the Lady Hawks of Huntingdon on the day to call themselves GSAC champions.  The final game of the tourney is set for a 2:30 start later today.
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