After falling behind 3-0 after one inning, UNC Greensboro rallied with two runs each in the fourth and fifth innings to claim a 4-3 win over Furman on Friday at the Southern Conference softball tournament at Warner Park.
Baylor School graduate Mary Catherine Vercoe went 2-for-3 for the Spartans and knocked in the go-ahead run with an RBI single in the fifth inning. Vercoe scored also scored twice in the game.
Brythe Blankenship hit a bases-loaded double for all of Furman's RBIs in the first inning. The loss ends the Paladins' season with a record of 22-29.
UNC Greensboro (26-32) next faces Georgia Southern later Friday in an elimination game.
Jim Tanner has worked as assistant sports editor at the Times Free Press since late 2006. He started at the Times Free Press in 2001 and worked as a news copy/design editor from 2001 through 2006. In addition to working as a night and weekend editor producing local and national sports coverage for print and online readers, Jim occasionally writes local sports and outdoors stories. Jim grew up in Ringgold, Ga., and is a graduate ...
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