Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Due West, S.C. – In their final regular season doubleheader, Erskine lost both games to King University 2-1 and 6-2 in Conference Carolinas softball action at the King Softball Field.

King University pushed a run across the plate in the 8^th inning to beat Erskine 2 to 1.  King scored the game’s first run on an rbi double by Fallon Thomas in the fourth inning. 

Erskine tied the game in their half of the sixth on an rbi single by Morgan Purcell (Duncan, SC, Byrnes High School) and had the bases loaded but King second baseman Tori McComas gunned downColleen Gardner (Matthews, NC, Butler High School) at the plate to squash the Fleet rally.  Playing international tie-breaker rules, King’s Hannah Smith singled to score the winning run.

Kelsey Spurrier (Charlotte, NC, Butler High School) took the tough loss for the Fleet, going 7.2 innings and allowing just two runs, one earned, on five hits.  She struck out five and walked three.

For King, Hannah Light picked up the complete game victory, allowing just the one run on six hits while fanning four and walking three.  Two of her three walks were intentional walks to Larissa Shannon (Newberry, SC, Newberry High School) in the sixth and eighth innings.

In the nightcap, the Fleet had a poor defensive showing behind Erskine pitcher Kaylin White (Columbia, SC, White Knoll High School).  White went the distance, scattering eight hits but was victimized for six runs, only two earned, on four Erskine errors. 

Erskine crept back to within two after scoring a run in both in the fourth and fifth inning.  Ashlyn Hicks (Caycee, SC, Brookland-Cayce High School) drove in Shannon, who had been walked earlier, for the Fleet’s first run and Lindsay Waters (Simpsonville, SC, James L. Mann High School) scored on Ericka McCarson’s rbi double in the fifth.

Unfortunately, the Fleet turned right around and gave back two unearned runs in the sixth inning for the final score of 6 to 2. 

Erskine (14-22-2, 10-9-1) concludes their regular season on a four game losing skid and have now lost five of their last six.
Erskine enters the conference tournament this weekend as the #7 seed and will have #2 seed Mount Olive College.  Back in March, Erskine and Mt. Olive split their season series with the Fleet taking game one 5 to 4 and the Trojans winning game two 10 to 4.