Jefferson City, T.N. – The Brevard College women’s softball team struggled on offensively on Tuesday afternoon, as the Tornados dropped both games of the double-header to the Lady Eagles of Carson-Newman. The 11th ranked Lady Eagles blanked the Tornados in both contests, winning game one 9-0 and taking game two 8-0.

 

In game one, the Tornados ran into a hot hitting Lady Eagles squad that scored nine runs on nine hits, while Carson-Newman starter Zoe Heim combined with relief pitcher Jessie Armstrong to throw a one-hitter over six innings.

 

Carson-Newman got on the board first, scoring two runs in the bottom half of the first inning on a BC throwing error.

 

The Lady Eagles scored two more runs in the second, highlighted by a Jessie Kuhlman RBI double, to go ahead of the visiting Tornados 4-0.

 

Carson-Newman added a run in the fourth and four runs by way of a Whitney Hickam grand-slam to end the game in the sixth with a 9-0 win.

 

The lone hit of the game for the Tornados came in the fifth inning by freshman first-baseman Sara Carlos, who singled to lead off the inning.

 

The win went to C-N’s Heim (23-5), as the Lady Eagles ace gave up one hit while striking out seven BC hitters in five innings of action.

 

The loss went to BC hurler Jennifer Gift (5-11), as the sophomore gave up nine runs, seven of which were earned, on nine hits in 5.1 innings in the circle.

 

While Carlos was 1-2 at the plate with a single, the only other BC player to reach base was centerfielder Kristin Tettemer who was 0-2 with a walk.

 

CN shortstop Jessie Howard led the Lady Eagles at the plate in game one, as she was 2-3 with an RBI and two runs scored. Kuhlman was 2-4 with a double, an RBI and a run scored, while Hickam was1-4 with a grand slam.

 

 

In game two, the Tornados slumped at the plate as Carson-Newman starter Stephanie Templeton shut down the Tornado offense, throwing a perfect-game in which she did not allow a BC player to reach base safely in the 8-0 victory.

 

Templeton (15-1) picked up the win as she pitched six innings of hitless ball while striking out eight BC hitters.

The Lady Eagles jumped out on top of the Tornados, scoring three runs in the third inning, highlighted by a Howard triple and a Mandy Steven’s RBI double to left center.

 

Carson-Newman added a run in both the fourth and the fifth innings, before scoring four runs in the sixth to win by the run rule 8-0.

 

Gift (5-12) picked up the loss in game two, as she gave up eight runs, seven of which were earned, on 14 hits over 5.2 innings of action.

 

The Tornados (8-20) will return to action on Thursday, April 10, as BC will host the Lady Crusaders on North Greenville University in a make-up double-header from a game that was rained out earlier this season. The double-header is slated for a 2 p.m. start time.

 

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