CLINTON, Miss. --- The Mississippi College softball team clinched a series sweep of Shorter without allowing a run, taking the final game by a score of 6-0 on Saturday afternoon at the MC Softball Complex.

The Lady Choctaws won their 8th straight game and clinched a spot in the Gulf South Conference Tournament. MC improved to 33-10 overall with a 16-7 league record, while the Hawks fell to 15-27 and 8-18 in conference play.
 

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HOW IT HAPPENED

>> The Lady Choctaws got all the offense they needed in the first inning with a pair of two-out runs as junior Carly Crawford scored on a wild pitch, and senior Brianna Caldwell touched the plate on an RBI single from freshman Baylee Freudenberg.
>> Senior Alexia Harmon added a run in the second inning with an RBI groundout that scored freshman Gracie Trahan.
>> MC tacked on two more runs in the third as freshman Grace Hahn scored on a wild pitch and junior Morgan Bradford crossed the dish on a groundout by Trahan.
>> The final run of the game scored in the sixth when senior Kristen Qualls came off the bench to hit her 4th home run of the season and 33rd of her career.
 

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KEY STATS

>> Senior Cori Cooper (11-6) picked up her second win of the weekend, allowing just four hits and striking out seven over 5.0 innings.
>> Sophomore Madi Lancaster tossed the final 2.0 innings, giving up just two hits.
>> Five different Lady Choctaws tallied hits, while six different players scored runs in the game.
>> Payton Lippert (11-12) took the loss for Shorter, giving up five hits and five earned runs over 6.0 innings.
>> Julianna Bellflower led the way with two hits.
 

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NEXT UP

>> The Lady Choctaws will be back in action on Friday when they travel to Livingston to face West Alabama in a three-game series.
 

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Mississippi College is a private Christian university located in Clinton, Mississippi with an enrollment of over 5,000 students. MC recently finished their transition process back to NCAA Division II and the Gulf South Conference and will be competing for conference and national championships in the 2016-17 academic year.

The athletic department sponsors 17 intercollegiate athletic programs: Baseball, Men's and Women's Basketball, Men's and Women's Cross Country, Football, Golf, Men's and Women's Soccer, Softball, Men's and Women's Tennis, Men's and Women's Indoor Track & Field, Men's and Women's Outdoor Track & Field and Volleyball.

For more information on Mississippi College athletics, please contact David Nichols at 601-925-3234 or nichols@mc.edu.