Troy Softball Falls to South Alabama

Wednesday, March 29

Mobile, Ala.

6 PM

Troy University

15-20, 3-7

South Alabama

20-12, 3-7

Troy

South Alabama

3/29/2017 8:18:00 PM | Softball

Box Score

By: Grace Bolin

MOBILE, Alabama – Troy (15-20, 3-7 SBC) traveled south for a single game against conference opponent South Alabama on Wednesday night. The Trojans fell to the Jaguars 8-0 in five innings at Jaguar Field. The series between Troy and South Alabama will continue as Troy hosts South on May 7 at 1 and 3 p.m.

The Jaguars (20-12, 3-7 SBC) got on the board early as they drove in one run in the first inning after a Troy error allowed the runner to get on base.

In a big second inning, South Alabama added to its lead as two back-to-back RBI singles advanced runners home to get a 3-0 lead over the Trojans. The Jaguars took a six run lead as Amanda Minahan hit a three-run home run in the bottom of the second with two outs.

South put up two more runs with an RBI single from Kristian Foster and a sacrifice fly from Minahan in the bottom of the fourth to give South an 8-0 lead that Troy could not answer to end the game in favor of the Jaguars in five innings.

Although the Trojans had a hard time hitting off of junior pitcher Devin Brown, Madeline Porter posted Troy's second hit with a double to left field that nearly cleared the fence, but after a couple of strikeouts and and fly ball, Porter was left stranded at second.

Claire Graves earned her 15^th start in the circle this season. She put in two innings of work and after allowing six runs, Graves was relieved by Meg Willis. Graves took the loss for the Trojans and moves to 7-4 on the season. Willis threw the remaining two innings of the game and allowed the final two Jaguar runs to score.

NOTEWORTHY
• Maddie Porter extended her reached base streak and has now safely reached base in 13 consecutive games, a career high and current team high.

• Troy is tied for first in the conference in doubles (45) with Porter's hit tonight. Heading into tonight's game, the Trojans were third in the league in runs scored (152) and total bases (359), and tied for fourth in hits (234) and RBI (129).

• Becca Hartley is fifth in the country and second in the Sun Belt with 12 home runs on the year, a career high. Her previous career high was 11 that she hit last season. She is also seventh nationally in total bases with 81 and 47th in slugging percentage.

• Hartley, Stephanie Snyder and Erica Davis lead the team with seven doubles each. A total of nine Trojans have posted multiple doubles this season.

UP NEXT
Troy will host conference opponent UT Arlington for a three game series on April 1-2. Saturday's doubleheader is slated for 1 and 3 p.m., and Sunday's finale will be played at noon.

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