Softball Secures Second Seed

SALEM, Va. - The Shenandoah University softball team secured the No. 2 seed at next week's USA South Conference Tournament by splitting a pair of games with Greensboro College Saturday afternoon at the Moyer Complex.

The Hornets (25-9, 14-4 USA South) won game one 7-1 before the Pride (19-14, 13-4) rallied for a 7-4 victory in the nightcap.

Game one was a resumption of a suspended contest from March 29 - SU led 2-0 in the top of the third inning when the game was called due to rain. Saturday, the Hornets added two more runs in the third and three in the fifth to coast to the seed-clinching victory.

Senior Katie Haskins (14-2) didn't need the extra support as she struck out 11 and scattered three hits in earning her 12th straight win.

Freshman Jesse Khoshavi-Heins was 3 for 4 with three runs batted in on a two-run single in the third and an infield hit in the fifth.

A four-run fifth gave coach Marlena Kotynski's club a 4-3 lead in the nightcap, but GC rallied with four runs in the seventh off of freshman Brooke Over (8-6) to salvage the split.

Junior Katie Bundrick led the Hornets at the plate with two hits in three at-bats.

Shenandoah is off until the first round of the conference tournament on Friday. The Hornets will play the winner of the No. 7 Ferrum vs No. 10 Mary Baldwin in the third game of the tournament.