MONROE, La. – The Georgia Southern softball team showed a lot of fight Sunday afternoon, out-hitting the UL Monroe Warhawks 10-7 despite falling just short in a 4-3 loss in the Sun Belt Conference series finale.
 
The Eagles (20-17, 6-3 SBC) ended the three-game series with 29 total hits including five home runs from five different players.
 
ULM's Amye Barre led things off in the bottom of the first inning with a solo home run. The Warhawks (18-20, 4-8) then added a pair of runs in the third inning to take a 3-0 lead, but the Eagles did something they've done several times this season: keep battling.
 
In the top of the fifth inning, Macy Weeks was able to follow a single by Rowan McGuire with a two-run home run to pull the Eagles to within one. The Warhawks scored a run in the bottom of the sixth to stretch the lead back out to two, but the Eagles answered with a run of their own in the top of the sixth when Alesha Mann delivered a two-out single down the right field line to score McGuire from second and close the gap back to a single run.
 
In the top of the seventh, Witkowski and Emily Snider led off the inning with back-to-back hits as the Eagles continued to be aggressive at the plate and on the base paths, but the Warhawk defense was able to eventually hold on for the one-run, 4-3 win.
 
Snider and Weeks led the offensive charge for the Eagles as each went 2-for-3 at the plate. Weeks also contributed a run scored and two runs batted in.
 
Dixie Raley (14-8) started the game for GS and was the pitcher of record. Heather Felt came in for the final four innings and faced 19 batters. Melanie Coyne (12-14) claimed the win for ULM in six innings of work and Paige Porter came on to pitch the final inning and earn her second save of the season.

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Georgia Southern returns home to Statesboro this week to begin a stretch of seven straight home games. The Eagles will first welcome the Mountaineers of long-time rival Appalachian State to Eagle Field for a three-game, Sun Belt Conference series beginning with a doubleheader on Saturday, Apr. 9. The first game will begin at 1 p.m. with the second game to follow at approximately 3 p.m.
 
 
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