Spartanburg, SC – Wofford softball fell just short of the comeback bid, losing 2-3 in game one, and allowed a late flurry of Bulldog offense in its 1-6 game two loss to the Samford Bulldogs- dropping to 1-4 in Southern Conference play.

Game 1
Samford jumped out to an early 3-0 lead after scoring once in the first inning and twice in the second inning. After that point, Terrier starting pitcher Abby Greenwood worked around seven hits without giving up a run or letting a runner successfully advance past second base. The freshman has also been an inning eater for Wofford, adding her sixth complete game today in nine starts and spinning a team high 76.2 innings pitched (33.1 innings more than second most Tayven Stephenson).

Wofford clawed two runs back in the fifth inning after loading the bases for leadoff hitter Hope Ingle who, while hitting into a fielder's choice, scored Lilly Compton (pinch running for Olivia Lenzen) from second base when the Samford catcher hit Ingle on the throw to first attempting to turn a double play. The ball ricocheted into right field, which allowed Compton to make the turn around third base and score. The second Terrier run scored a batter later, in more traditional fashion. Abby Campbell singled down the first base line to notch her fourth RBI in the past five games.

The Terriers appeared primed to walk the game off in the seventh after managing to get runners on second and third base with no outs, which became bases loaded with one out after Ingle worked a walk. However, Samford made a pitching change that saw Campbell go down swinging and Desirae Devine popping up a harmless fly ball to centerfield to drop the series opener.

Game 2

Margaret Axelson was dominant for the Terriers for the first 6.1 innings of action, limiting Samford to a singular run on five hits scattered throughout the game. However, a string of four straight hits resulted in four runs for the Bulldogs, which chased Axelson from the contest. Sydney Baker, appearing in relief, allowed the hit that scored the sixth and final Samford run but as Axelson was the pitcher who allowed the runner on the base, the run was charged to her, giving her a final pitching line of 6.1 IP, 9 H, 6 R (all earned), and 3 strikeouts.

Offensively Wofford was unable to capitalize on a one out double from Havalynn Abernathy in the fifth, that missed clearing the fence for a homerun by mere inches, and a leadoff double by Gracie Parker in the sixth inning. Wofford again loaded the bases in the seventh, as it had done in the previous game, and while this time was able to produce a run when Megan Towery singled into left to score Kaytlin Greenwood, could not string enough hits together to keep pace with Samford. Towery continued to stack productive at bats, finishing the day 3-for-6 with an RBI.

Since the start of conference play, the freshman has raised her batting average .117 points to now sit at .289 on the season while also extending her hitting streak to five games, one shy of tying Hope Ingle for the longest hitting streak by a Terrier this season (no other Terrier has an active hitting streak longer than one game). Gracie Parker meanwhile has the longest active on base streak for the Terriers at eight games currently.

Up Next
Wofford concludes its series with Samford tomorrow, March 29, before traveling to Virginia Tech for a doubleheader with the Hokies on Tuesday, April 2. Tomorrow's game will be streamed on ESPN+ while the second game of Tuesday's doubleheader will be streamed on the ACC Network.