Box Score NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Trevecca Nazarene University softball team earned a dramatic Gulf South Conference victory Saturday morning, defeating No. 12 West Florida (18-4, 7-2) 6-5 on a walk-off home run at the Trevecca Softball Complex.
The Trojans (6-7, 2-7 GSC) rallied in the final inning to secure the series finale, highlighted by a historic moment from
Bailey Goad, who delivered the first home run of her collegiate career — a two-run walk-off blast — after also starting the game in the circle for Trevecca.
Trevecca 6, No. 12 West Florida 5
Trevecca struck quickly in the opening inning with an early offensive surge.
Shay Hollingsworth set the tone by leading off the game with a solo home run, giving the Trojans an immediate 1-0 lead. Later in the inning,
Annalise Mecklenburg followed with a two-run homer to left field, scoring
Brianna Asmondy and extending the advantage to 3-0.
West Florida responded with three runs in the third to even the game before taking a 5-3 lead in
the fifth inning. Trevecca's pitching staff held the line the rest of the way.
Bailey Goad started in the circle and worked 4.2 innings before
Parker Herrin recorded a key out in relief.
Haylie Brooks then closed the game with two scoreless innings, allowing no hits while striking out one to keep the Trojans within striking distance.
Trailing 5-3 entering the bottom of the seventh, Trevecca mounted its final rally. Sarah
Kinderdine opened the inning with a solo home run to right field, trimming the deficit to one run.
After
Annalise Mecklenburg reached with a walk and
Madison Pruitt entered to pinch run,
Bailey Goad stepped to the plate and delivered the game's biggest moment. The Trojan pitcher
crushed a two-run home run to left field, scoring Pruitt and completing the walk-off comeback for a 6-5 Trevecca victory.
The home run marked the first of Goad's collegiate career and capped a standout performance in which she contributed both in the circle and at the plate.
Circle and Box Notes
- Bailey Goad went 2-for-4 with the walk-off two-run home run — the first homer of her
- collegiate career — and started the game in the circle.?
- Shay Hollingsworth opened the scoring with a leadoff home run and finished with two
- hits and an RBI.
- Annalise Mecklenburg recorded a two-run home run in the first inning.
- Sarah Kinderdine launched a solo home run in the seventh to begin the Trojans'
- comeback.
- Kyleigh Burgett finished 2-for-3 with a double.
- Haylie Brooks earned the win with two scoreless innings in relief.
