HAMPTON, VA— The Winthrop softball team has won five straight after a doubleheader sweep at Hampton with wins of 8-4 and 3-0, Sunday afternoon in Big South Conference action.

GAME INFORMATION
RECORDS: Winthrop (21-19, 10-7 Big South) | Hampton (20-16, 4-10 Big South)
WINTHROP LEADERS: Kiley Majette (W, SHO, 4H, BB, 5K / 1-3, 2R) | Madyson Watson (W, CG, 8H, 4R, 3ER, 3BB, 4K / 2-6, R, 2B, HR, 2RBI) | Morgan Lowers (3-8, R) | Keleigh Romine (2-4, R, 2B, 2SF, 2RBI)
 
WHAT HAPPENED
Game 1

• Hampton took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first as Brianna Anderson hit her second homerun of the season, a two-run shot to left
• Eagles got one back in the second as Brooke Ellison led off the inning drawing a walk
• Tori Walker then reached on an error as Ellison moved to third on the play and then Ellison scored on a double steal
• A couple of mistakes proved costly for the Eagles in the fourth inning as a leadoff error and a passed ball set up Hampton with runners in scoring position
• Pirates grabbed a 3-2 lead on a double down the right field line and then took a 4-2 lead on a wild pitch
• Blake Wallert and Morgan Lowers started the 5^th inning to get the offense going
• Ashley Westbrooks reached on an error as Lowers moved to third and Wallert scored
• After Westbrooks stole second, Keleigh Romine tied the game at 4-4 with a sacrifice fly
• Westbrooks scored on a passed ball for a 5-4 lead and then Madyson Watson doubled to left to score Walker for a 6-4 lead
• Westbrooks put the Eagles ahead 7-4 in the sixth inning with a sacrifice fly
• Watson helped her cause again in the seventh as she hit a one-out homerun to center, her second straight game with a homerun
• Watson improved to 11-3 on the year and 7-0 in Big South play as she allowed four runs (three earned) on eight hits with three walks and four strikeouts

Game 2

• Eagles struck first in the third inning as Kiley Majette led off the inning with a single and then one-out singles by Lowers and Westbrooks loaded the bases
• Romine drove a ball deep enough to left field to score Majette from third for her second sac fly of the doubleheader
• Ellison was hit to load the bases again but Watson popped up to end the threat
• Blake Wallert made Hampton pay for a fielding error that kept the inning alive as she hit a two-run blast to left center for a 3-0 lead
• Majette tossed her 6^th career shutout as she allowed four hits with one walk and five strikeouts to improve to 6-11 on the year

EXTRA BASES

• Lowers had three hits on the day as she moves into 8^th all-time in career hits at Winthrop and is now two away from 200
• Lowers had two hits in the second game of the doubleheader and now has 17 multi-hit games
• This was the Eagles third shutout of the week as Watson tossed two in the PC series and Majette with hers in the second game of the doubleheader
• Wallert reached 15 RBI on the year as the Eagles now have eight batters with 15 or more RBI on the year
• Wallert now has 13 RBI in 14 Big South Conference games she's played in
• Westbrooks reached base in both games and has now done so in 16 straight games
• All three of Watson's homeruns this season have come in game she's started in the circle
• This is the first five-game winning streak since the Eagles won all five games at the Cougar Classic in 2017

ON DECK
The two teams will wrap-up the series on Monday, Apr. 15 with the single-game scheduled for 11 a.m.