Tech Unable to Outlast Louisville on Saturday Afternoon

LOUISVILLE, KY – Georgia Tech softball (19-19, 5-9 ACC) came up short on Saturday afternoon in Kentucky as it fell 6-5 to Louisville (28-7, 5-3 ACC).

QUICK HITS

• Sydnie Watts made her ninth start of the season, 14^th appearance of the season, to take start things off against the Cardinals in game two of the series.
• In her eighth appearance of the season, second relief appearance of the season, Tymber Harris took over for Watts in the fifth inning.
• Kenley Hilleary made her 20^th relief appearance, 22^ndappearance of the season, and was Tech’s third pitcher in the circle on Saturday.
• Saturday’s appearance marked Hilleary’s ninth appearance in Tech’s last 10 games.
• Watts led Tech’s pitching staff through game two of the series with two strikeouts against 18 batters faced across 4.2 innings pitched. Hilleary took the bulk of the remaining innings, recording one strikeout against 10 batters faced through 1.1 innings of work. Harris also faced three batters across 0.1 innings pitched.
• Tech’s offense was led by Alyssa Willer with two runs and two hits, alongside Gracyn Tucker who recorded one home run and two RBI, and Addison Leschber who had one run, two hits, and one RBI.
• With her two runs scored, Willer joined Madi Duffel, Paige Vukadinovich, Holly Medina, Raegan Wall, and Tucker in the five multi-run game club for this season.
• Willer’s pair of hits brought her to a team high 14 multi-hit games while Leschber’s two hits brought her to five multi-hit games this season.
• The first baseman’s pair of runs batted in also brought her to eight multi-RBI games this season.
• Both Willer and Leschber extended their safely reached streaks to 10 games respectively after Saturday’s meeting with the Cardinals.
• Tucker saw her 10^th home run of the season, second against Louisville, and third in the last four outings. The third baseman is one hit shy of 100 career hits and one home run shy of 25 career home runs.

HOW IT HAPPENED

• The Yellow Jackets struck first in game two after Willer was sent running home from second with enough time to get home off of Leschber’s first inning double to right field.
• Tech extended its lead in a big way with four runs on four hits in the top of the third. Tucker got things started for Tech with a home run over center field that posted two runs. With Leschber on first, Hunter added one additional run with her double to left center that sent Leschber running. Hunter was sent running home herself off a Duffel single to shallow right field.
• Louisville tried to respond quickly but was held to one run in the bottom of the third scored off a pair of doubles to left field.
• The Cardinals continued to try to come back, cutting the Yellow Jackets’ lead down to three runs as one run came in while Tech caught a runner trying to steal second in the fourth.
• After a scoreless fifth inning for both teams, Louisville stacked another two runs in the bottom of the sixth with a pair of doubles, a wild pitch and one hit by pitch. The final inning of the game saw the Cardinals record two hits to left field which was enough to finish the game 6-5 in favor of the hosts.

UP NEXT
The Yellow Jackets are set to close out the series against the Cardinals on Sunday with one final afternoon game. The remaining game in the series are set to be streamed on ACCNX.

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Full Steam Ahead

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