PENSACOLA, Fla. --- The Mississippi College softball team got off to a slow start in the Gulf South Conference Tournament with a 5-1 loss to West Georgia on Thursday morning at the UWF Softball Complex.

The Lady Choctaws (38-13) will now play an elimination game on Friday (May 3) at 10:00 a.m., facing the loser of the UAH vs. Union game.
 

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HOW IT HAPPENED

>> The Wolves got all the offense they would need in the first inning as a pair of unearned runs crossed the plate on a two-out error by the Lady Choctaws.
>> Senior Alexia Harmon tallied an infield single in the first inning, but it was the last hit the Lady Choctaws would muster until the seventh inning.
>> UWG tacked on a run in the fourth inning with a solo home run from Lexi Close to make the score 3-0.
>> They would add two more runs in the fifth with a solo home run from Alley Taylor and an RBI double by Madison Chambers, pushing the lead out to 5-0.
>> MC would finally break through in the seventh as junior Morgan Bradford singled home pinch-runner Paige Hulin to cut the deficit to 5-1.
>> The tying run would come to the plate in the seventh, but the Wolves were able to get out of the jam and hold on for the win.
 

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KEY STATS

>> The Lady Choctaws racked up four hits in the contest with three of them coming in the seventh inning.
>> Senior Cori Cooper (13-8) took the loss in the circle, giving up five hits and two earned runs over 4.0 innings.
>> Freshman Hannah Creel tossed the final 3.0 innings and allowed just three hits and one earned run.
>> Chambers and Taylor each had multi-hit games for the Wolves with Chambers notching three with an RBI and a run scored.
>> Morgan Goree (10-9) grabbed the win for UWG, going 6.1 innings with eight strikeouts and four hits allowed.
 

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NEXT UP

>> MC will play in nothing but elimination games the rest of the tournament as they look to battle back through the loser's bracket.
>> They will play the loser of UAH and Union at 10:00 a.m. on Friday morning.
 

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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.