MILLIGAN COLLEGE, TN (March 22, 2007) --- The Milligan College softball team won both games of a doubleheader on Thursday afternoon over visiting Maryville College by scores of 3-2 and 4-3. The win improves the Lady Buffs to 16-12 overall on the season and drops Maryville to 7-5.

Game 1 Milligan 3 Maryville 2

Maryville jumped out to an early lead when leadoff hitter Samantha Thearp led off with a single and came around to score. The Lady Buffs responded with a three run homer from the bat of Megan Aldridge (Johnson City, Tenn.) that scored Leah Fritts (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Jessica Blevins (Elizabethton, Tenn.) for a lead that would stick.

Maryville cut the lead to one in the sixth inning, but the Lady Buffs were able to hold on for the victory as Jennifer Wise (Clermont, Fla.) went the distance scattering six hits and striking out five for the win.

Game 2 Milligan 4 Maryville 3

It was the Lady Buffs who jumped out to an early lead in game two, as they plated three runs in the opening frame. Laken Stewart (Pennington Gap, Va.) led off with a walk and Fritts singled to start the game, and both scored on a Blevins double. An out later, Mallory Tincher’s (Jacksonville, Fla.) single brought Blevins across to put Milligan ahead 3-0.

Maryville came storming back however, with a run in the third and two more in the fifth to tie the game at three.

Milligan responded in the bottom of the sixth when Blevins again doubled and was again brought home by Tincher. Blevins and Tincher were each 2-for-3 in the game with 2 RBI apiece.

Maryville threatened in the seventh loading the bases before game one winner Wise came on to record the final out by way of strikeout for the save. Reigning AAC and Region XII Pitcher of the Week Maegan Hambrick (Lexington, Ky.) went six innings allowing three runs with four strikeouts for the victory.

The Lady Buffs will challenge ETSU on Saturday, March 24 at 2 p.m. in Johnson City.