Newton Two-Run Homer Gives UVa-Wise Softball Split with Ind. Southeast

April 29, 2007
Game 1 Boxscore

Game 2 Boxscore

Wise, VA – Tied 2-2 in the fifth, Shelley Newton blasted a two-run homer to left center for the deciding opening runs in a 5-3 UVa-Wise victory over Indiana Univ. Southeast. The Grenadiers struck back for a 4-0 shutout in the last contest to earn the split in the regular season finale for both teams.

The Lady Cavaliers finished the regular season campaign at 26-21. UVa.-Wise will be off until Wednesday morning at 9:00 a.m. as they open the Appalachian Athletic Conference tournament as the top seed against eighth-seed Bluefield College in the event opener at WhiteTop Creek Park in Bristol, TN.

Newton (Chesapeake, VA) belted a two-run home run, her ninth of the year, as her lone hit. Tori Flint ( harlottesville, VA), Mary Wilson (Va. Beach, VA) and Amber Quillen (Kingsport, TN) lined doubles. Flint and Quillen added singles as well.

Bobbi Mihelarakis (Sterling, VA) and Alicia King (Castlewood, VA) produced two singles apiece while Britney Lawson (Duffield, VA) and Christine Cantone (Va. Beach, VA) had one hit. Amanda Wheeler Sims (Jonesborough, TN) picked up the mound victory in the opener where she scattered 11 hits, one earned run and fanned five batters to improve to 13-8.

Indiana Southeast (23-21) broke onto the board first in the opening affair with single tallies in the third and fourth innings. With two outs, King singled and Cantone walked to set up Flint, who doubled both runners home to right center to tie the game, 2-2.

In the fifth, Mihelarakis singled through the left side before Newton belted a two-run home run to left centerfield to put UVa-Wise ahead 4-2. Wilson doubled home Flint, who was intentionally walked, for an insurance run in the sixth for what would be the final of 5-2.

The Grenadiers’ starting pitcher Lauren Baumgardner had the Lady Cavs number in the late game. Baumgardner allowed just four hits and no extra base hits to shutout the home team 4-0. The visitors pushed across two scores in the third before Kate Vanosdol homered to center to start the fourth and they added a final tally in the seventh for the four runs.