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Box Score 2 MEMPHIS, Tenn. --
Elena Escobar pitched a shutout,
Mckenzie Patterson accounted for all three runs in a game and
Haven Kirby homered twice in another as the North Alabama softball team closed the Blues City Classic with two more wins on Sunday.
The Lions downed Indiana State 3-0 in the first game of the day and followed with a run-rule 11-3 win over the host Memphis Tigers to close out the event. UNA went 4-1 over the three days, with the lone loss coming to Pittsburgh.
Against Indiana State, UNA scored a run in the third inning and added two insurance runs in the seventh in the 3-0 win.
Mckenzie Patterson provided the majority of the offense in the game, scoring two runs and driving in the other.
In the third inning, Patterson doubled and later scored on a fielding error.
In the seventh, Garcie Benton singled and scored on a RBI-double by Patterson. Patterson then scored on an error to make it 3-0.
Starter
Elena Escobar (4-0) went the distance, allowing no runs on six hits over seven innings. She walked two and struckout five.
Memphis took a 1-0 lead in the first inning of the nightcap but UNA quickly countered with three runs in the second inning, four in the third and three in the fourth.
In the second inning,
Jaiden Farnetti walked and Patterson doubled her in to tie the game.
Felicity Frame singled in Patterson and then scored on an error to make it 3-1.
With two outs in the third inning,
Brooke Burback walked and Kirby followed with a two-run home run. Benton and Farnetti then singled and Benton scored on a fielding error. Farnetti later scored on a another error to make it 7-1.
In UNA's half of the fourth, Georgia Lane walked, Burback singled and Kirby hit a three-run homer to push the Lions' lead to 10-1.
Memphis scored two runs in the bottom of the fourth but North Alabama added a run in the fifth to get back to the eight run, run-rule margin.
Sidney Bevis singled and Kirby drove in her sixth run of the game with an RBI-single.
UNA starting pitcher
Mariyn Waterman (2-0) got her first start, pitching three innings and allowing one run on three hits. She walked two and struckout one. Junior
Hannah Embry saw her first action in the circle this season in the fourth inning and allowed two runs on two hits.
Maci Birdyshaw then entered to pitch a scoreless fifth inning and end the game.
North Alabama hosts nationally ranked Alabama at the Florence SportsPlex on Tuesday, March 14 at 6:00 p.m.