MILLIGAN COLLEGE, TN (April 4, 2007) --- The Milligan College softball team suffered an Appalachian Athletic Conference (AAC) sweep at the hands of Montreat College on Wednesday evening at Anglin Field. The loss drops the Lady Buffs to 21-17 overall and 3-3 in the AAC. Montreat moves to 10-19 overall and 4-6 in the AAC.

Game 1: Milligan 6 Montreat 11

Montreat scored early and often in game one, crossing the plate twice in the top of the first, twice more in the second, and plating four runs in the third inning to go up 8-2 after three innings of play.

The Lady Buffs fought back for two runs in the fifth and two more in the sixth, but it was too little too late for Milligan as they were unable to change the outcome.

Megan Aldridge (Johnson City, Tenn.) was 3-for-3 at the plate with three RBI and a run scored while Laken Stewart (Pennington Gap, Va.) went 2-for-4 with two runs and an RBI and Jessica Blevins (Elizabethton, Tenn.) was also 2-for-4 and scored a run.

Jennifer Wise (Clermont, Fla.) took the loss on the mound for the Lady Buffs, allowing ten runs on thirteen hits in five innings of work.

Game 2: Milligan 3 Montreat 4

The second game proved to be a much different contest though it featured the same result. Milligan jumped out to an early 1-0 lead in the first inning when Stewart led off the inning with a single and later scored on a hit by Blevins.

Montreat responded in the second to tie the game and added two more in the third to gain the lead.

Milligan went into the bottom of the seventh inning down by two runs, 4-2, and it looked as though the Lady Buffs might muster a comeback when senior Leah Fritts (Knoxville, Tenn.) got the inning started with a single. Though Fritts would come around to score, Milligan left the tying run on third base when the game ended with a Stewart fly out to left field.

The Lady Buffs play at home again tomorrow, Thursday, April 5, versus North Greenville University in a doubleheader scheduled for a 2 p.m. start.