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Lyndzi Partlow 2023
Dale Zanine
2
Covenant COVENANT 15-19
10
Winner Piedmont PIEDMONT 24-16
Covenant COVENANT
15-19
2
Final
10
Piedmont PIEDMONT
24-16
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 R H E
Covenant COVENANT 2 0 0 0 0 2 7 2
Piedmont PIEDMONT 0 2 7 0 1 10 10 1

W: Ford, Riley (8-5) L: J. Yeary (9-10)

Game Recap: Softball | | Davis Barlow: Assistant Director of Athletic Communications

Softball Bests Covenant in First Round of CCS Tournament

NEED TO KNOW:
Score: Piedmont 10, Covenant 2
Records: Piedmont 24-16 (10-6 CCS), Covenant 15-19 (8-8)

JACKSON, Miss. – The Piedmont University softball team bested No. 5 Covenant in the first round of the Collegiate Conference of the South tournament behind an explosion of offense in the 3rd inning.

Covenant struck first against starter MEGAN STEINMEYER with a two-run blast in the top of the 1st.

Piedmont responded in the bottom of the second with a two-run bomb of their own off the bat of LYNDZI PARTLOW to tie the contest 2-2.

The offense came to life in the 3rd, blowing the game wide open. The Lions put up seven runs behind five hits and a pair of hit by pitches. JASMINE LOWERY, KENNEDY VOTAVA, HANNAH MORGAN, RILEY FORD and HANNAH SMITH all recorded hits during the big inning. 

From there, the Lions scored one last run in the bottom of the 5th, ending the contest in a five-inning run rule.
 
STANDOUT PERFORMANCES:
- RILEY FORD tossed 3 innings of 3 hit softball.
- HANNAH MORGAN went 2-3 with 3 RBIs.
- LYNDZI PARTLOW went 2-3 with a two-run home run.
- HANNAH SMITH went 2-3 with 2 runs.
- KARA TAYLOR went 2-3 with 2 RBI's. 

UP NEXT: 
- The Lions advance to the next round where they'll take on host and No. 1 seed Belhaven at 11 a.m. on Friday, April 28. 

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