Box Score Game 1    Box Score Game 2
Hattiesburg, MS-The Belhaven softball team, ranked 7th in the latest NAIA Top 25 Poll, traveled to 14th ranked William Carey University on Saturday afternoon and lost game one of a Gulf Coast Athletic Conference doubleheader to the Lady Crusaders 8-0 but came back to shut William Carey down 9-1 in the second game. The Blazers are now 36-4 overall and are 9-1 in the GCAC. Belhaven ties the school record for most wins in a season that was set last year at a total of 36 wins. William Carey moves to a 28-11 overall record and 7-3 in the league.

Game One
In game one of the day, William Carey denied the Blazers from scoring any runs. The Lady Crusaders plated the only eight tallies of the contest and neither team scored in the second, fourth, and fifth innings.

Sarah Burns was in the circle for the first three innings of the game and took the loss allowing seven runs on five hits sinking her record to 15-3 on the season. Salina Cervantes pitched the final 2.2 innings for the Blazers allowing only one run on four hits with four strikeouts. Anna Ard started and got the win for William Carey pitching the first 5.2 innings surrendering one hit and not allowing any runs to raise her record to 8-4. Offensively, the Blazers were limited to only two hits by Jessica Eggold and Tiffany Ansley.

Game Two
Game two of the afternoon was controlled by Belhaven as the Blazers rolled to a 9-1 victory over the Lady Crusaders. Belhaven jumped on the scoreboard in the top of the first scoring one run on one hit. Eggold led off the game as she reached on a bobbled ball by the second baseman Bree Neidhardt. Jaques bunted and reached first on another error by Neidhardt allowing Eggold to go to third. Jaques stole second followed by Ansley who hit an RBI double to deep left plating Eggold.

William Carey answered back with their one and only run of the afternoon in bottom of the first with three hits tying the score at 1-1. In the second inning, Rian O'Bannon reached on a walk and Rachel Wright singled to center. Katie Sanders stepped up to the plate and hit a sacrifice bunt to advance Wright to second and O'Bannon to third. Lizzy Hess reached first on a fielder's choice and O'Bannon was thrown out returning to base. Webb hit a single to right field and due to a missed catch Wright reached home to give the Blazers an unearned run.

Belhaven racked up two more runs in the top of the fourth with one hit. Wright led the inning off with a single to center field and Sanders hit a sacrifice bunt to advance Wright to second. Webb reached first on an error and the error allowed Wright to cross home plate. Webb's speed allowed her to steal second, third, and reach home on a missed catch giving the Blazers a 4-1 lead.

In the fifth and sixth innings, Belhaven added five more runs on the scoreboard as Wright hit an RBI single to shallow left scoring Ansley and then Kayla Maldonado crossed home plate on a fielder's choice in the fifth inning. In the sixth, Ansley hit an two run double to left center allowing Webb and Eggold to cross home plate followed by Jaques scoring on a passed ball to grant the Blazers a 9-1 victory.

Rebecca Rousseau took the win pitching all six innings allowing only one run on four hits with two strikeouts. Rousseau is now 10-1 in 2010. Melanie Bush got the loss for the Lady Crusaders by firing the first five innings giving up seven runs on nine hits with one strikeout. The Blazers were impressive at the plate in game two as Ansley led the offense going three for four at the plate with three runs batted in. Wright also went three for four at the plate and had one RBI for Belhaven followed by Sanders with a run batted in. Judy Barber had a hit for William Carey and one RBI followed by Shana Gunter, Jeana Erickson, and Tan Montgomery who each had a hit for William Carey.

Belhaven will travel to Spring Hill College on Monday afternoon in another GCAC doubleheader beginning at 1 PM.