The No. 8-ranked Georgia Gwinnett College softball team split a pair of tight games against No. 22 University of Mobile (Alabama), winning the opener 3-1 before losing 2-1 in the nightcap Monday afternoon on a neutral diamond at Faulkner University in Montgomery, Alabama.
Sophomore pitcher
Alexa Good struck out six batters in tossing her eighth shutout of the season in the opener.
Junior
Piper Wagner connected on a two-run home run to center field in the first inning to give the Grizzlies a 2-0 lead. The team added a run in the fourth inning when freshman
Kendall Parks scored from first base following a defensive error on a sacrifice bunt by junior
Madison Martin.
Wagner had two hits to lead the Grizzlies' six-hit offensive attack in the winning effort.
In the second game, Mobile (19-16) got a walk-off single from Brianna Crim in the bottom of the seventh inning. That came after GGC had tied the game in the sixth inning on Wagner's RBI double, the team's first hit of the contest.
The Grizzlies (25-9) have won seven of their last eight games.

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Mobile had three straight hitters reach base with one out in the seventh inning of the second contest. An infield single was followed by a fielder's choice and a walk to load the bases. Then, Brianna Crim lined a base hit to right field to score Jaden Morace for the walk-off single.
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First Game
Top of First
Piper Wagner connected on a two-run home run over the center field fence
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Top of Fourth
Madison Martin laid down a sacrifice bunt that advanced
Kendall Parks to third base; she later scored following a Mobile throwing error on the same play
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Second Game
Bottom of First
Allison Vincent hit a RBI ground out to give the Rams a 1-0 lead
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Top of Sixth
Piper Wagner tied the game, 1-1, with a run-scoring double
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Bottom of Seventh
Jaden Morace lined a base hit to right field with the bases loaded to score the winning run
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- The Grizzlies tallied six hits in the first game
- Sophomore Alexa Good tossed her eighth shutout of the season in the opener
- Junior Piper Wagner connected on her fourth homer as part of a two-hit performance in the first game
- GGC stands 25-9 on the season; Mobile stands 19-16 in 2021
- The Grizzlies were ranked No. 8 in the latest NAIA Top 25 poll; Mobile stood No. 22 in the same poll
- GGC leads the series history by a 7-5 margin with Mobile and has won three of the four meetings this spring
- The team had won seven straight games before falling in Monday's second game