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Softball: Dawgs fight back to beat Wisconsin in ten innings
The fourth-ranked Georgia softball team came back from a four-run deficit and battled in a 10-inning marathon Thursday, beating Wisconsin 7-6 at Eddie C. Moore Complex on the first day of the Shriners Children’s Clearwater Invitational.
Junior Dallis Goodnight provided the walk-off hit in the bottom of the 10th to keep Georgia undefeated on the season at 6-0.
Sydney Kuma led the offense with three hits including a home run. Sara Mosley scattered two hits and drove in three runs while Ellie Armistead also had two hits.
Madison Kerpics pitched one and two thirds innings in her start, allowing four runs on four hits. Lilli Backes pitched five and a third scoreless innings in relief, allowing just one hit and striking out six. Shelby Walters (3-0) earned the win, working three innings, striking out five.
A leadoff error by Mosley allowed Wisconsin (4-2) a quick baserunner. Brooke Kuffel doubled to push the run in and take a 1-0 lead in the first. The Badgers added to the lead in the top of the second with an RBI single and a two-run home run, 4-0.
Mosley doubled to center to drive in Armistead in the third to put Georgia on the board, 1-0. Jayda Kearney followed with a double of her own to cut the Badger lead to 4-2.
Kuma knocked her third home run of the season, a leadoff shot to right center, to cut the lead to 4-3 in the fourth.
Down to their final three outs in the seventh, Armistead led off the inning with a triple ripped down the right field line. Mosley knocked a grounder to third that the fielder couldn’t come up with and Armistead scored to tie the game, 4-4.
With the international tiebreaker rule in effect, a runner was put on second in each inning following. The placed runner scored in each the eighth and ninth innings for both teams.
Wisconsin found itself with two on with no out in the top of the 10th. A rundown between third and home cut down the placed runner for the second out. Walters stranded the tying run on third to send the game to the bottom of the 10th tied at 6-all.
Kuma bunted pinch runner Hannah Davila to third. Sydney Chambley and Sarah Gordon were intentionally walked to load the bases. After a strikeout, Goodnight knocked a base hit back up the middle to drive in Davila and walk off the Badgers, 7-6.
Georgia is back in action Friday in Clearwater. The Dogs will face off against No. 6/8 Oklahoma State at 10 a.m. on ESPNU. Georgia takes on No. 19/20 UCLA in the nightcap at 4 p.m. on ESPN+.
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