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Lady Bears walk off East Mississippi with Grand Slam

| By: by Cody Junkin
Madalyn Ashford and Jana Phillips
Southwest Mississippi Softball played East Mississippi in a doubleheader on Sunday, March 15th winning both games 14-6 and 6-5.

In game one, Allie Ladnier pitched all five innings for the Lady Bears and picked up the win with 5 strikeouts.

Southwest quickly went up 5-0 after the first inning with a Tristan Allen homerun scoring the final 2 runs of the inning.

After East Mississippi put up 3 runs in the third inning, the Lady Bears responded with another 5-run inning to go up 10-3 in the contest.

A Corin Talbot homer put Southwest up 7-3.

Next, a Jana Phillips triple scored 2 more runs to push the score to 9-3.

Tristan Allen singled to score the final run of the inning and give Southwest a 10-3 lead.

East Mississippi wasn't done yet as they put up 3 more runs to make the score 10-6 favoring the Lady Bears.

Southwest went into the bottom of the fifth leading still with a chance to win on a run rule.

They would go on to do exactly that.

After the bases loaded on a walk and a pair of singles, Kate Clements came to the plate with a chance to extend the Lady Bear lead.

Clements would do more than just extend the lead as she hit a Grand Slam to put Southwest up 14-6 and end the game by run rule in the bottom of the fifth inning.

Kate Clements had 5 RBIs with Jana Phillips and Tristan Allen each having 3 apiece. Corin Talbot had 2 and Alexis Dejean had 1.

Alexis Dejean led the team with 3 hits. Tristan Allen had 2 hits including a homerun. Six other Lady Bears had 1 hit each.

Kate Clements and Corin Talbot each had a homerun as well.

Hannah Adams stole a base in the game.

In game two, Ballard Kraft started on the mound.

Mary Claire Salley took over for Kraft and pitched 5.0 innings with 4 strikeouts.

Corin Talbot pitched the final 1.2 innings and picked up the win for the Lady Bears.

Game two was a much closer contest that saw Southwest trail early.

East Mississippi quickly took a 2-0 lead in the first inning, but by the end of the fourth inning the game was tied 3-3.

The three Southwest runs came on a Kate Clements solo homerun, an Alexis Dejean single, and a Bailey McLin single.

East Mississippi came back after two scoreless innings with 2 runs in the top of the sixth to take a 5-3 lead over Southwest.

A 3-run bottom of the sixth would give the Lady Bears a 6-5 lead that would eventually be the final score.

Madalyn Ashford got it started with a double then scored on a Bailey McLin single to cut the lead down to 1.

Bailey McLin scored next on a Corin Talbot single to tie the game at 5-5.

An Alexis Dejean sac fly scored Talbot and gave the Lady Bears the lead at 6-5.

Corin Talbot would hold off East Mississippi on the mound in the top of the seventh, giving Southwest the win and a sweep on the afternoon.

Kate Clements led the team with 3 hits including a homerun. Bailey McLin followed with 2 hits of her own, and six other Lady Bears had 1 hit in the contest.

Alexis Dejean and Bailey McLin each had 2 RBIs. Corin Talbot and Kate Clements both had 1.

Corin Talbot and Madalyn Ashford each had a double in the game.

Southwest would win game two 6-5 to finish 2-0 on the day.

The Lady Bears (16-3, 2-0*conference) will head to Meridian on Wednesday, March 18th on an 8 game win streak to take on Meridian Community College in a doubleheader.
 
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