BREVARD, N.C. - The Brevard College softball team (8-19, 4-12 USA South) split its final doubleheader of the 2022 season with Wesleyan College (20-13, 9-7 USAS) on Saturday afternoon at the BC Softball Field.
The Tornados pulled out a 4-2 victory in the final game of the season to close out 2022 on a high note, as Brevard honored its two graduate students and four seniors - Brittany Franks, Emily White, Kaitlynn Farmer, Jocelyn Folkers, Taylor Hannah, and Savannah Jones.
Wesleyan used an offensive surge to take game one, 13-0.
GAME TWO: BREVARD 4, WESLEYAN 2
Brevard ended its season with a resounding triumph over Wesleyan, as the Tornados built an early four-run advantage and held on for the two-run victory.
Farmer closed out her Tornado career with a complete-game performance, earning the victory while striking out four batters and allowing just two earned runs.
Franks went 2-for-3 in her final game in a Tornado uniform and scored a run, while Beth Hyatt crossed the plate twice for BC. Jones went 1-for-3 with BC's lone RBI.
Both sides went down in order in the first inning and stranded runners in the second frame. Brevard got on the board first when a fielding error allowed Hyatt to come across, making it a 1-0 ball game in favor of the Tornados.
BC added three runs in the bottom of the fourth, with Jones singling home Franks before Jones and Hyatt each scored on a wild pitch to give Brevard a 4-0 lead.
Wesleyan threatened in the top of the sixth, scoring twice and loading the bases up with two outs, but Farmer forced a 1-3 groundout to end the frame, as BC clung to a two-run advantage, 4-2.
The Tornado defense closes the game out with three putouts in the top of the seventh as Brevard wrapped up its Senior Day triumph.
GAME ONE - WESLEYAN 13, BREVARD 0
Wesleyan took the first game of the doubleheader 13-0 behind a 15-hit performance from its offense.
Jones got the start in the circle in game number one, while Abby Delp came in for three innings of work allowing just three earned runs.
Wesleyan scored four in the first inning before scoring one run each in the second and third frames. The Wolves added two runs in the top of the fourth before sealing the game in the fifth with five runs
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