GREENVILLE, S.C. – Making the short drive down the interstate for a non-conference detour against regular foe Furman, the Presbyterian College softball team was dealt a pair of tough defeats versus a quality in-state combatant. The Paladins downed PC by respective scores of 5-4 and 10-2 on Wednesday night.

The Blue Hose bumped up their production in the hits department from Game 1 to 2 in the midweek doubleheader (going from 5 to 8) while playing 12 innings of errorless softball, although their SC rivals pulled out a 7^th-frame walk-off to begin the DH and ended the evening with a sweep.

Kendall Owens, Kasey Wolfe, and reigning Big South Player of the Week Kelby Goodrum all found a two-hit rate in either meeting, now at 10-20 on the season after claiming two out of three last weekend in the league opener opposite Winthrop.

Head coach David Williams' squad returns to Clinton next week in another non-con two-parter, having the weekend off as a form of extra prep for the Mercer Bears. That sequence will get underway at 3:00 PM from the site where PC has achieved 25 victories over the last 13 months.

 
GAME ONE – FURMAN (12-14) def. PRESBYTERIAN (10-19) – 5-4
 
- In a contest where the majority of runs came at the eleventh hour, Presbyterian erased an early 2-0 hole that was established in the 3^rd by scratching in the next stanza thanks to Owens' RBI-single and later a two-run 6^th after the Paladins had brough the deficit back to a deuce.

- Owens and shortstop Emma Yanes capitalized on Furman miscues to bring the bout back to square one at three apiece, the early stages of five straight half-innings where at least one run was scored between the nearby schools.

- As the Paladins pressed the pressure back to the Blue Hose with a bottom-of-the-6^th RBI to enter the last frame up by one, Owens responded with her second of three runs-batted-in for the day that once again deadlocked the affair.

- However, the home side prevented extra innings from occurring by seeking and finding a walk-off triple.

- Sophomore Peyton Duncan finished out the matchup with 1.2 innings of relief after ace Jenne Greene threw to 23 batters, as the Paladins ushered in three pitchers to publish the last-second victory.

 
GAME TWO – FURMAN (13-14) def. PRESBYTERIAN (10-20), 10-2 – 5 INNINGS
 
- PC went through an uphill battle in the second half of the doubleheader, witnessing five 1^st-inning scores from Furman once Wolfe got her crew on the board in just the third at-bat of the contest.

- The Paladins stayed in front from that point behind Sierra Tufts who went the distance in the mercy rule, able to withstand a Presby score in the 5^th (again off of Owens' hands) to produce four runs themselves thereafter that finished the sweep.

 
UP NEXT
 
- Presbyterian will aim for a much more pleasing result on March 26 when Mercer rolls into the Palmetto State, tangling with the Bears for the 4^th and 5^th times ever and first instance since 2021.

- Mercer will begin Southern Conference territory before setting their sights on coach Williams' bunch, hosting Wofford on the heels of a bludgeon over Georgia State in their most recent appearance (16-4, a season-high in runs scored).