Woolgar helps Lady Saints earn split

Lisa DeMarr and the Lady Saints earned a doubleheader split against Erskine on Wednesday. The Lady Saints softball team split a conference doubleheader with Erskine College on Wednesday evening.

The Saints dropped game one 5-8 and won the second 11-10. Both games went into extra innings. The Lady Saints are now 20-28 overall, 8-8 in the league, while Erskine stands at 23-16-1 overall, 14-2 in the conference.

In game one, the Fleet jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the third inning.

Limestone came alive in the bottom of the third, scoring its first run on an Erskine error.

Christina Woolgar drove in two more runs on a single and Jessica Brown had a RBI single to put the Saints up 4-3.

Erskine went on to score two more runs in the sixth on a homer by Ashlee LaFontaine to go up 5-4.

Limestone tied the game in the bottom of the seventh on a solo homer by Hannah Mills to send the game into extra innings.

In the top of the eighth, Lindsey LaPrad drove in two runs on a double and Kaitlin Hunt doubled to bring in the third to put the Flying Fleet up 8-5.

In the second game, the Fleet scored five runs in the first inning.

The Saints put two on the board in the bottom of the first on a triple by Woolgar.

Erskine scored two more in the second, one in the third, and another in the fifth to jump ahead of the Saints, 9-2.

The Saints roared back in the bottom of the fifth, scoring six runs with RBIs from Woolgar and Samantha Weaver.

Brown tripled to bring in two more.

Keisha Thompson knocked in another run and Mills singled for the last RBI of the inning.

Limestone tied the game at 9-9 in the bottom of the seventh on another RBI by Brown.

Erskine scored on an RBI by Kelly Davis to go up 10-9 in the top of the eighth. Woolgar finished off her huge day by driving in two runs on a double for the game-winning RBIs.

Woolgar was 5-for-9 with 7 RBIs and Brown was 4-for-8 with 4 RBIs.