The Presbyterian College softball team used a two-run first inning and added home runs by Erin Taylor and Erin Ruff to take the 4-2 win over Coastal Carolina in the final game of a three-game series in Conway, S.C.
PC improved to 22-21 overall and 10-9 in the league, while Coastal Carolina dropped to 31-22, 16-7. PC rounds out the regular season at home May 2-3, with a three-game series against Campbell. The two teams meet in a 1 p.m. doubleheader Saturday before playing a single game Sunday at 1 p.m.
Jenna Harris led off the Blue Hose effort with a base hit early in the first inning. After advancing to second on a CCU error, she scored off a single by Erin Ruff, who ended the day three-of-four. Ruff plated the next at-bat off a Kersten Legacki double to give PC the 2-0 lead.
Coastal Carolina responded with a sacrifice fly by Amanda Daneker that brought home Bri Chiusano, who led off the inning with a single to short, and CCU made it a one-run game.
Taylor gave PC the two-run lead in the second with a solo home run, her seventh of the season, while Ruff's team-leading eighth home run of the year, this one in the fifth, gave the Blue Hose a 4-1 lead.
The Chanticleers cut the lead to two in the sixth with a home run by Sara Rasley, but that would be as close as they would get, falling by the final, 4-2 score.
PC finished with 10 hits, with Ruff leading the day with her three-for-four effort and two RBI. Legacki and Harris added two hits in the game.
Sydney Seigler earned the start and win for PC (5-10) after throwing 4.0 innings and surrendering just one earned run off four hits. Kensley Loudermelk picked up the save (3) after going 3.0 innings with one run off one hit.
Kelsey Dominik threw a complete game for CCU, giving up four runs off 10 hits. CCU, which had five hits and one error, was led by Chiusano with two hits.
