SB at South Carolina
Jim Killian/CSU Sports
0
Charleston Southern CHSO 11-23
2
Winner Longwood LWU 22-24
Charleston Southern CHSO
11-23
0
Final
2
Longwood LWU
22-24
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Charleston Southern CHSO 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
Longwood LWU 0 2 0 0 0 0 X 2 5 1

W: Sydney Backstrom (17-11) L: Clark, Holly (3-5)

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Charleston Southern CHSO 11-24
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Winner Longwood LWU 23-24
Charleston Southern CHSO
11-24
2
Final
3
Longwood LWU
23-24
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Charleston Southern CHSO 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 4 2
Longwood LWU 2 0 0 0 0 1 X 3 4 1

W: Sydney Backstrom (18-11) L: Heinrich, Alyssa (3-8)

Game Recap: Softball |

Bucs swept by Longwood in doubleheader to close 2021 season

FARMVILLE, Va. – Charleston Southern pitchers Holly Clark and Alyssa Heinrich combined to allow just three earned runs in 12.0 innings Sunday, but Longwood swept the Bucs in a doubleheader at Lancer Field in the season finale for CSU.
 
The Lancers won the first game, 2-0, and the second game, 3-2.
 
Clark and Heinrich each threw a complete game, with the former allowing two runs on five hits in the first game and the latter allowing one earned run on four hits with five strikeouts in the second game.
 
Buccaneer hitters combined for just seven hits across the doubleheader, with Sarah Brown and Erika Cooper combining for four of those hits in the two games. Longwood had just nine hits in the two games but pushed across enough runs to secure a pair of wins.
 
Longwood scored the lone runs of the first game on a two-out, two-run single up the middle in the third inning. The Bucs had a chance to score in the fourth after Brown doubled and Madison Koger reached on an error, but CSU left runners stranded at the corners in the inning. CSU had another chance in the sixth when Brooklynn Brewington walked and Katelyn Norris reached on a bunt single to begin the inning, but the Bucs left both runner stranded.
 
Charleston Southern opened the scoring in the second game after Brewington led off the game with a single and later scored on a wild pitch. The Lancers tied the game in the first on an RBI single, then took the lead when a CSU throwing error allowed another run to score. CSU tied the game in the sixth when Dominique Mannerino singled through the right side of the infield to drive home Brown, but the Lancers answered with a sac fly in the bottom half of the inning. The Bucs had the tying run at third in the seventh inning but were unable to score, as Longwood closed out the doubleheader sweep.
 
Sydney Backstrom earned both wins in the circle for Longwood and allowed just three earned runs in 17.2 innings in the three-game series.
 
How They Scored – Game 1
  • Longwood scored the only runs of the game in the second inning on a Destiny Martinez two-run single up the middle that just got under Holly Clark's glove.
 
How They Scored – Game 2
  • The Bucs opened the scoring in the first inning when Brooklynn Brewington scored on a wild pitch.
  • Longwood tied the game in the bottom of the first on a Kasey Carr RBI single to center field.
  • The Lancers took the lead in the first when a Buccaneer throwing error allowed Alexis Wayland to score.
  • Charleston Southern tied the game in the sixth on a Dominique Mannerino RBI single through the right side of the infield, scoring Sarah Brown.
  • Longwood scored the go-ahead run in the sixth on a sacrifice fly off the bat of Carr.
 
Notes and News
  • Holly Clark's complete game in the first game of Sunday's doubleheader was the 20th of her career.
  • Brooklynn Brewington will take a 14-game on-base streak into next season after reaching base safely in both ends of Sunday's doubleheader.
  • Sarah Brown's two-hit game in the first game of the doubleheader was the 35th multi-hit game of her career.
  • This weekend marked the first time CSU pitchers threw a complete game in all three games of a series this season.
  • Buccaneer pitchers threw a complete game in six of CSU's final seven Big South games of the season. Clark threw three complete games during that span, Annah Junge had two and Alyssa Heinrich threw one in the second game of Sunday's doubleheader.
  • CSU's pitching staff had a 1.47 ERA with 11 strikeouts in 19.0 innings across the three-game series.
  • Dominique Mannerino's RBI in the second game was her 10th of the season and made her the fifth different Buccaneer to drive in 10 or more runs this season (Ashley Meckley – 20, Sarah Brown – 14, Ashlyn Cribb – 12, SeaEnna Satcher – 10, Mannerino – 10).
  • Charleston Southern had opportunities to score additional runs in both games but left 14 runners on base across the doubleheader.
 
Up Next
Sunday's doubleheader was the 2021 season finale for the Bucs. Charleston Southern finishes the season at 11-24 overall, 6-15 in Big South play and will finish between sixth and eighth in the Big South standings, depending on other results across the next two weekends.
 
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