Owls’ Season Ends

The Kennesaw State Owls 2011 softball season came to an end on Thursday morning, dropping a, 7-1, decision to the Campbell Camels in their second game of the Atlantic Sun Conference Championship, hosted by USC Upstate.
The Owls (28-27) broke a scoreless tie in the top of the third inning when, with runners on first and second and two outs, Bianca Durant, who went 2-for-3 in the game, hit a slow chopper to shortstop that was handled by Amanda Miller, but her throw to first was thrown away, scoring Ashlee Burkett from second base to make it 1-0 Owls.

Thursday’s game would be marked by a pair of three-run home runs, however, which would propel Campbell (31-27) to the victory. Still leading, 1-0, in the bottom of the fourth, after three scoreless innings of pitching by Cross, the Camels began to rally offensively. After a pair of walks to leadoff the inning, Cross would leave the pitcher’s circle in favor of Cat Tarvin. The first batter she faced was designated player Raven Lee, who lofted a Tarvin offering over the right center field fence that gave Campbell a 3-1 lead.

The Black and Gold would strand two runners in top of the fifth inning, and it was in the bottom of the fifth when Campbell would put the game away. The first two runners would reach base before Lauren Stephan, who hit three home runs against the Owls on Apr. 9, hit a three-run home run of her own, lining an Abbey Meixel offering over the right center field fence to make it 6-1. They would add one more run in the bottom of the sixth on a sacrifice fly.