CLINTON, Miss. - The Belhaven softball team tallied 22 total hits Friday evening at the Mississippi College Softball Complex, en route to a doubleheader sweep of the University of the Ozarks. The Blazers defeated the Eagles 7-3 in game one, before earning an 11-4 victory in game two. 

It took a few innings for Belhaven to get going in the first game, and they fell behind 1-0. But the Green and Gold scratched together three runs in the bottom of the third inning, despite recording just one hit. Hannah Holloway scored on a wild pitch after reaching base on a walk, Cassidy Blount brought home Makayla Reed with a sacrifice fly to center, and Meg Garton smacked a double to plate Savannah Lyon. 

The Blazers added another run in the fourth as Crystal Kehtel and Savannah Johnston recorded back-to-back doubles. Kehtel and Johnston helped the Green and Gold add two more runs in the fifth with back-to-back RBI singles. 

Lyon hit an RBI single to plate Holloway in the bottom of the sixth to close out the Blazers scoring, giving Belhaven a 7-1 lead heading to the seventh. 

The Ozarks tallied three hits and two runs in the top of the seventh to close the gap to four runs, but it wasn't enough to complete the comeback. 

Taylor Surrento went the distance for the Blazers in the circle, collecting her sixth complete game of the season. Surrento tied her career-high in strikeouts with nine, and picks up her fourth win of the year. 

Garton was a perfect 3-for-3 at the plate while Lyon and Kehtel went 2-for-2. Johnston was 2-for-3 in game one with two RBI. 

The Blazers' 12 team hits in game one is a season-high. 

In game two, Jordan Herring retired the first 10 Ozarks batters she faced and the Blazers took a 2-0 advantage into the bottom of the fourth inning. In the bottom of the fourth, the Blazers exploded for seven runs on five hits to turn a tight game into a comfortable nine-run lead. 

Reed hit a three-run homer over the left field wall, her first in a Blazers uniform, to start the scoring in the inning. Johnston doubled to left center bring in another run, while Mary Austin Barber singled to right to score two more runs. Kaitlyn Blubuagh plated Brittany Chetta with a single up the middle for the final run of the big inning. 

The Eagles finally broke through in the top of the fifth inning, scoring two runs on four hits. The Ozarks added two more runs in the sixth to cut the Blazers lead to five, 9-4. 

Belhaven would get two of those runs back in the bottom half of the sixth, as Marlee Blackwell smacked an RBI single right, and Reed followed with a triple to deep center to plate Blackwell. 

Herring tossed six scoreless innings, allowing just four hits, to earn her first win of the season. 

Reed, Blubaugh, Garton and Johnston recorded two hits each for the Blazers. 

Belhaven improves to 6-11 on the season after the doubleheader sweep, while the Ozarks fall to 3-11. 

The Blazers and the Eagles wrap up their three-game series on Saturday with a 12 p.m. first pitch from Clinton. 

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