Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Softball Picks Up Pair of Wins Against Charleston Southern

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     CHARLESTON, S.C. – The Coastal Carolina University softball team defeated the Lady Bucs from Charleston Southern University winning both games of the doubleheader on Saturday, Mar. 24 with scores of 5-1 and 3-0.   In game one, the Chants got on the board when Erika Trujillo (Littleton, Colo./Dakota Ridge (Northern Colorado)) scored on a wild pitch with the bases loaded in the third inning. Allison Cantrell (McDonough, Ga./Eagle’s Landing) put CCU on top 2-0 with an RBI single to center field. Kristina Sheppard (Galveston, Texas/Ball) then singled to right field to score one and end the third inning with a 3-0 lead.   Junior Ashley Gerdts (Colorado Spring, Colo./Air Acacdemy) increased the CCU lead to 4-0 with her first homerun of the season over the left field fence.    Charleston Southern put a run on the scoreboard in the bottom of the fourth off an RBI double from Jennifer Brooks which brought the score to 4-1.   CCU rounded out the scoring in the fifth inning when Sheppard singled to the left side and scored Danyelle Gerdts (Colorado Springs, Colo./Air Academy)  giving Coastal a  5-1 lead that held for the remainder of the game.   Sheppard finished the contest going 2-for-2 at the plate and brought her season RBI total to 22.   Throwing in all seven innings for CCU was Ashley Frederick (Lusby, Md./Patuxent). Frederick struck out four batters and allowed only four hits. She improved her record to 5-9 for the season.   Game two was scoreless for the first three innings until catcher Glynn Tolleson (Tomball, Texas/Tomball (Radford)) put CCU on the board in the fourth. Tolleson hit a two-RBI  single to center field that scored Alicia Irwin (Salina, Kan./Salina South) and Alyssa Tornatore (Frederick, Md./Tuscarora). Tolleson had a big day going 3-for-4 at the plate and recorded three putouts.   Coastal sealed the win in the seventh when Danyelle Gerdts led off with a triple to left field. Ashley Gerdts then sent her sister Danyelle across home plate with a single up the middle that brought the score to 3-0 which was made final after the Chants held on in the bottom of the inning.   Danyelle Gerdts improved her record in the circle to 2-8. Gerdts struck out five batters and allowed only two hits in seven innings.   The Lady Chants improved their overall record to 10-22 and opened up conference play at 2-0. CSU fell to 11-28 on the season and 0-2 in the Big South.