LYNCHBURG, Va. – Megan Ackerman pitched her second shutout of the season and sent the Maryville Scots home happy from their Spring Break visit to Virginia.
The Scots split a Wednesday doubleheader at Randolph, losing the opener 4-1 and taking the nightcap 6-0 behind Ackerman's three-hit gem. Maryville in its six Virginia games went 4-2.
After suffering her second loss of the season Monday at Roanoke, Ackerman came back to pitch 12 shutout innings against Southern Virginia and Randolph. The southpaw allowed five total hits and struck out eight. She's now 8-2 with a 1.47 ERA.
Wednesday wasn't a big offensive day for the Scots, but four from Maryville contributed two hits apiece.
Brecca Williams went 2-for-6 with two more runs scored,
Sara Koonce was 2-for-6 with a run scored and one driven in,
Cierra Hudson was 2-for-7 with an RBI, and
Paige Dickinson finished 2-for-5 with a run scored and three driven – aided by an inside-the park home run.
Dickinson circled the bases to tie Koonce for the team lead in homers with two.
Maryville in the second game scored runs on five of their seven turns at bat. Koonce and Hudson had RBI-singles,
Bailey Myers delivered a sacrifice fly, and Dickinson drew a bases-loaded hit-by-pitch to go with her solo inside-the-parker.
In Game 1, Dickinson drove in Maryville's only run with a fifth-inning single.
Whitney Carr pitched her first complete game as a Scot but took a tough loss, allowing three earned runs on nine hits over six innings. Carr is now 3-1.
Maryville has a few rest days before opening its 2024 Collegiate Conference of the South season at Berea in a Saturday doubleheader. Start time is 1 p.m.
