No. 8 Walters State wins first two games of Coyote Classic

GULF SHORES, AL – No. 8 Walters State won their first two games of the Coyote Classic on Friday afternoon. The Lady Senators won 15-4 in five innings over Southern Union, before taking a 3-2 win over Coastal Alabama South. 

With the wins, the Lady Senators improved to 6-0 on the season. 

GAME ONE: No. 8 Walters State 15, Southern Union 4 (5 Innings)

In game one, Walters State scored early and often on their way to the win.

Tori Coffman (3-0) got the start in the circle, throwing three innings and striking out five. Coffman did not allow a hit.

Replacing Coffman in the fourth was Emma Myatt and she gave up four runs, three earned. Makayla Ramsey got the final three outs in the circle.

At the plate, Kailey Dixon had a home run, two singles and drove in three runs. Nora Mack had three hits, including a home run, and knocked in three runs while Abigail Taylor had two hits and three RBI. Brooklyn Copley had two hits, including a home run, and three RBI. 

Following a scoreless first inning, Walters State got on the board with four runs in the second. Coffman started things off with a double and a Taylor single and Sarah Evers walk loaded the bases with one out. Olivia Neese drove in the first run of the game with a sacrifice fly, and Dixon drove in the other three with a 3-run bomb to make it 4-0.

The third inning saw four more runs cross the plate for the Lady Senators to make it 8-0. Those runs came courtesy of a Taylor 2-RBI double and a Copley two-run homer. 

In the fourth, four more runs scored as Mack tripled to score Dixon, Jules Johnson doubled to score Mack, Haidyn Campbell doubled to score Johnson and Evers knocked in a run on a groundout that made it 12-0.

Walters State ended things in the fifth with three more runs. Mack started things with a two-run bomb and Copley singled to score Johnson. Southern Union scored four in the fifth, but that was all. 

GAME TWO: No. 8 Walters State 3, Coastal Alabama South 2 

In game two of the day, Copley broke a 2-2 tie in the sixth with a solo shot that proved to be the winning run.

Copley was one of three solo home runs in the game, as Mack and Johnson went back-to-back in the first inning. 

In the circle, Coffman (4-0) pitched a complete game. Coffman gave up two runs on five hits and struck out 14. Coffman had 19 strikeouts in 11 innings of work on the day. 

Mack and Johnson started things off with back-to-back homers in the first, but Coastal Alabama South tied it with a solo homer in the third and a sacrifice fly in the fourth. 

However, Copley came up with an out in the sixth and smacked the go-ahead homer. Coffman got a strikeout, groundout to third and pop up to second to end the game.

Up Next:

Walters State will be back in action on Saturday with two more games. The Lady Senators are scheduled to play Coastal Alabama at 10 a.m. and Gulf Coast State at 12:15 p.m. 

Rob Harvey

Walters State Community College

Sports Information Director

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