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MOBILE, ALA- The Spring Hill College Badgers swept a double header from the Majors, 7-2 and 8-0 in the opening games for the Majors' 2013 season.
The Badgers used a four run sixth to break game one open. All the damage in the sixth was done with two outs. Tiffany Harvard homered in the fifth inning to close the game to 3-1. It was her first of the season and first with the Majors. Megan Yglesias had a couple of hits and scored the Majors second run an inning later, coming home on a sacrifice fly from Kaitlyn Doles.
Emily Collins took the loss for the Majors. She went the first four innings. Collins allowed three runs while striking out five Badgers on the afternoon.
Game two saw the Badger put together back-to-back big innings to put the game away. Spring Hill scored three in the second and five more in the third off of Katie Birdwell. The Majors' bats were silented in game two as they managed just a pair of hits from Yglesias and Caroline Thompson.
The Majors dropped to 0-2 on the young season. They next travel to Pineville, Lousiana to take part in an invitational put on by Lousiana College. They will play a double header on Friday against Centenary (LA) at 11:00am and against LeTourneau at 5:00pm. On Saturday they will rematch with Centenary at 3:00 before taking on the host school Louisiana College at 7.