Georgia Tech Uses Late Rally To Slip Past Bears

Wednesday, February 28

Atlanta, Ga.

6 p.m.

Mercer University

7-5

Georgia Tech

11-7

Mercer

Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech Uses Late Rally To Slip Past Bears

2/28/2024 8:50:00 PM | Softball

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By: Todd Anderson, anderson_t02@mercer.edu

ATLANTA – Sophomore Avery Barton's 3-run bomb in the top of the fifth helped Mercer stake claim to a 5-2 lead, but red-hot Georgia Tech rallied for three runs of their own in the sixth, and one more in the seventh, to turn back the Bears by a 6-5 count on Wednesday evening at Shirley Clements Mewborn Field.

Mercer (7-5) tacked up its most runs in more than a decade in the series with the Yellow Jackets (11-7), but Georgia Tech still managed to push its series win streak out to seven games with the result. Georgia Tech has now captured five-straight games in Atlanta against the Orange & Black.

GAME SUMMARY
FINAL	Georgia Tech 6, Mercer 5
PITCHERS	WP: Kinsey Norton (3-1) LP: Hannah Pitts (1-1)
RECORDS	Mercer (7-5); Georgia Tech (11-7)

KEY INNINGS
TOP 5	Laura Vigna climbed aboard with a bunt single, and Tori Hedgecock followed by drawing a full-count walk to get something going for the visitors. Georgia Tech starter Chandler Dennis put the second out of the frame on the board via strikeout, but Avery Barton leaned into a 1-and-2 offering from Dennis in the ensuing at-bat and launched it 237 feet into the trees in centerfield to put MU on top.
BOT 6	Georgia Tech loaded the bases with its first four at-bats in the home half of the sixth, and cut into its deficit with a RBI groundout from Tiffany Domingue. Madison Dobbins would follow with a 2-run single moments later to knot the game back up.
BOT 7	Emma Minghini reached via a costly two-base error to lead off the frame, then moved within a fly ball of scoring on Paige Vukadinovich's sacrifice bunt. Jin Sileo's run-scoring single in the ensuing at-bat provided the walk-off for the hosts.

MU LEADERS	GT LEADERS
Laura Vigna 2-4, RBI, R Avery Barton 1-3, HR, 3 RBI Alyssa Woods 1-4, 2 R Tori Hedgecock 1-3, BB, RBI	Ella Edgmon 2-4 Madison Dobbins 1-3, BB, 2 RBI Mallorie Black 1-3, BB, 2 R Emma Minghini 1-2, R

UP NEXT
The Bears will hit the road again this weekend when they travel to Boiling Springs, N.C., for the Gardner-Webb-hosted Spring In The Springs tournament. The Bears will play a pair of games against both Binghamton and North Carolina A&T, while also tangling with the host Bulldogs on Saturday evening.

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