MOUNT BERRY, Ga.— Berry's softball team swept LaGrange 8-0 and 5-1 Wednesday evening at Kay Williams field.
Game One: 8-0
Berry scattered 14 hits in game one, as Katie White led with three at the top of the lineup.
After four scoreless innings for the Vikings, Anna Jackson doubled to left field to bring some momentum for BC. Morgan Frye singled through the left side and then stole second to bring two runners to scoring position. Katie Parker hit a sacrifice fly to right field, with Jackson scoring to put Berry up 1-0.
The Vikings rallied for a seven-run sixth inning to put the game away. Frye started the inning off with a home run over the center field fence. Elly Bennett then singled to left center, with Grace Hamilton doubling to right center to put two runners on base. Aleeya Thornton then tripled after a hit over the left fielder's head to bring in two more for the Vikings, making the score 5-0. White and Jackson both singled, each bringing in one run. Blair Hall homered down the left field line to bring the game to a run-rule end.
Hall (3-0) pitched the entire game, only allowing five hits from the Panthers. Frye, Thornton, and Jackson all recorded two hits.
Game Two: 5-1
The Vikings got ahead in the first inning with three hits, scoring two. White led off with a single and was brought home by a Jackson double. Hall had a sac fly to center to bring Jackson in to bring the score to 2-0 at the end of the first.
Bennett doubled down the left field line and was brought in by White, to bring the score to 3-0 at the end of the second.
LaGrange strung some hits across in the sixth to make it a 3-1 contest.
Parker and Bennett had back-to-back walks in the sixth to put two runners on with no outs. White and Sydney Moroney both hit an RBI single to bring the score to 5-1 and finish the scoring.
Hannah Gore started for BC in the circle for game two, and allowed three hits and recorded eight strike outs. Casey Holloway pitched her first career inning for the Vikings in the seventh.
White and Jackson both had two hits for game two.
The Vikings will be on the road in Maryville, Tenn., Saturday against Wittenberg University with a start time of 12:00 p.m., with the Vikings facing host Maryville at 2 p.m.
