MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. – The conclusion of an 11-game streak only against teams from the state of South Carolina, the Presbyterian College softball team visited College of Charleston on Wednesday afternoon where the drama was plentiful and the end result was a split.

Both games in the doubleheader were decided by just one score, as PC took the first half – which extended to extra innings – in a 4-3 nail-biter. The Cougars handed a receipt in part two, winning 7-6 to call it even.

Junior Peyton Duncan tossed all eight frames in the come-from-behind Game 1 victory, her 10^th W of the campaign thanks to six strikeouts and some clutch 6^th-inning bats from the Blue Hose to advance the affair past regulation.

Presby again attempted to mount a comeback in the nightcap, trailing by three going into their last chance and – despite a two-out, two-run double from freshman Audrey Burton – fell a hair shy of getting the sweep.

Head coach David Williams' gang now sits at 19-16 after the brief non-conference excursion, made to wait a full 10 days before returning to the diamond when they'll take on Longwood in a week-and-a-half.


 
NOTABLES
 
- Duncan kept Charleston mostly in check to start off the DH, logging her ninth complete game of the year and setting a season-high for innings pitched (eight). She held the Cougars to nothing in four of the last six chapters, setting the scene for the offense to take charge.

- Leftfielder Morgan Farthing handed her crew the lead in the top of the 8^th with a base hit to bring home Kelby Goodrum, while senior Mallory Fletcher forged some breathing room in the next at-bat with a sacrifice fly that wrangled in Kendall Owens.

- That ended up being a crucial run in the grand scheme of things, considering Charleston's own sacrifice fly in the bottom of the 8^th. Presby stood their ground after that, however, and polished off their third extra-innings win of 2025.

- PC collected 14 hits in the two-parter, with 12 of them landing as singles. Fletcher hit .500 on the day, complimented by two hits apiece from Burton, Maddi Wood, and Baxleigh Arnette (who also drew a walk and stole a couple of bases).


 
GAME ONE – PC def. COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON, 4-3 (8 Innings)
 
- It took until the 6^th inning for the bats to start heating up, but they peaked at the right time for the Blue Hose after trailing 1-0. An RBI-single by Wood scored pinch-runner Olivia Goforth after Owens came home via catcher obstruction, giving the Scotsmen their first lead late.

- Charleston countered in the bottom of that same inning with a base hit to center field, and after neither side could dictate the tiebreaker in the 7^th, PC would go to extra's for the third time this spring.

- Just like the last time they played an extra-innings contest (a 5-2 triumph over Queens at a neutral site), Presby wouldn't be satisfied with just a single score. Farthing and Fletcher delivered two RBI in consecutive at-bats to grant the Blue Hose just what they were on the hunt for.

- It took two fly balls for the Cougars to send their one-base runner to home plate in the bottom of the 8^th. With the game in the balance, Duncan forced another fly ball for the final out and transferred the win to PC in the first meeting between the two schools since 2015.


 
GAME TWO – COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON def. PC, 7-6
 
- Five combined runs were tallied in the first two innings of the rematch, as Goodrum found an RBI knock in the 2^nd to put Presbyterian ahead 2-1. That cushion inflated to a three-run advantage thanks to a wild pitch and a Charleston error in that same stanza.

- Things unraveled a bit for the Blue Hose after that promising start, allowing two straight three-spots in the 4^th and 5^th innings. None of the three runs given up by freshman pitcher Grace Kelley during that sequence were earned.

- Down to their last opportunity to avoid defeat, Burton gave the Scotsmen some life on the aforementioned double that brought in Arnette and Gracie DeCuir. The rally dissipated soon thereafter, with a line-out to right field that signaled the end.


 
UP NEXT
 
- Coach Williams and co. go into a lengthy break after sharing wins with the Cougars in the midweeker, studying Longwood for their next Big South series on April 5 and 6.

- It's been a rough go for the Lancers in '25, losers of eight consecutive games going into this weekend's matchup with Gardner-Webb. Longwood is 6-22 on the semester, although winning two of three against the Blue Hose 12 months ago.