Virginia Shuts Out Longwood To Close Regular Season

FARMVILLE, Va. – The Virginia softball staff (30-2) closed the common season with a win, utilizing an opportunistic offense to grind out a 3-0 victory at Longwood (27-18) on Thursday night (Might 2).

HOW IT HAPPENED
The primary two batters of the sport reached for the Hoos, organising a rating within the first inning for Virginia. With one out, an floor ball to second was misplayed, permitting Tori Gilbert to achieve safely and Jade Hylton to attain from second. Virginia would go on to load the bases earlier than a wild pitch introduced a second run dwelling to offer the Cavaliers the 2-0 lead.

The Cavaliers added to the lead within the sixth inning on a fielding error at third off a ball laced to 3rd by Leah Boggs. Kelsey Hackett scored from second on the play after coming into to run for Katie Goldberg who reached on a two-out single. Hackett then superior to second on a Reece Holbrook stroll to arrange the rating on the ball in play from Boggs.

The three runs was sufficient because the protection and pitching workers held the Lancers in examine.

Savanah Henley (1-2) picked up the reduction win as she labored 2.0 innings with two strikeouts and allowed one hit.

Maggie Chapin (6-7) took the loss as she allowed two runs, solely considered one of them earned, on six hits. She walked two and struck out three in her 4.2 innings of labor.

NOTES ON THE GAME

• With the win, UVA hit the 30-win mark for the primary time since 2010 when the Cavaliers went 34-23.
• Virginia took each video games towards Longwood, sweeping the season collection for the primary time since 2015.
• The highest of the lineup delivered six of the eight hits for the Cavaliers on the afternoon, however the opportunistic UVA offense scored all three runs with out an RBI being recorded within the sport.
• Virginia used 4 pitchers within the outing with Molly Grube going 3.0 innings within the begin. Mikayla Houge, Henley and Eden Bigham additionally pitched for the Hoos.

FROM HEAD COACH JOANNA HARDIN
“I really like how the pitching workers pieced collectively a shutout. They had been hitting spots, mixing up speeds and throwing a variety of completely different appears to be like. They did an awesome job of working collectively. The offense was in a position to rating sufficient runs. It’s somewhat deceiving with the variety of runs. We had actually good at bats, took our walks and put a variety of barrels on balls however didn’t have quite a bit to indicate for it. I’m happy with how we responded after a troublesome weekend. It’s thrilling to have an opportunity to place issues collectively, grind it out and convey our greatest to the ACC Match subsequent week.”

UP NEXT FOR THE HOOS
Virginia will return to motion on the ACC Championships subsequent week. Matchups and seeds have but to be decided for the occasion that can start on Might 10 at Notre Dame.