RALEIGH, N.C.  After sweeping the conference games with Meredith College on Saturday, the Lady Bishop softball team came back on Sunday to go on the road to battle the same Angels in a non-conference doubleheader.

The games on Sunday were a chance for Coach John Brackett to rest some of his senior starters and give some valuable playing time to the udnercalssmen. They showed grit and toughness but ultimately fell 9-7 in game one and 6-3 in game two. 

Sophomore pitcher Alexis Wynne grabbed her first start of the season in the circle for game two and tossed all six innings allowing 9 hits and 5 earned runs on 4 walks and 2 strikeouts.

Senior 2B Meredith Booth led off the game with a home run for the Bishops, her 2nd of the year. Wesleyan then took a 3-2 l ead in the 4th scoring on an error and a walk. Then after MC tied it on a sac fly in the 5th, they would put the game away in the 6th scoring three runs (two earned) off Wynne.

Booth and junior CF Logan Winstead led Wesleyan with multi-hit games while catcher MK Raynor also smoked a double.

GAME 1: MC 9, NCWC 7

in the first game of the day, the teams totaled for 16 runs while the game was tied at 4 after 4 innings before Meredith pulled away for a 9-5 lead in the 6th. They scored all their runs off game one starter, senior Grace Preston who threw 6 innings allowing 7 earned runs on 10 hits with 3 walsk to ge tthe loss.

Summer Phillips gave Wesleyan short-lived 1-0 lead in the first on her RBI single before MC built a 4-1 lead. NCW then tied it at 4 with a passed ball, and two RBI singles from seniors Kayla Molivas and Beth Braswell. Braswell drove in another run with a sac fly in the 5th while Nichole Mooney's RBI walk drove in senior 1B Bryona Knight in the 7th before Winstead's RBI single scored Booth as well, but the Bishops fell short 9-7 in the end. 

Winstead led the offense with 3 hits while Braswell, Knight and Molivas all registered two hits apiece.

Wesleyan, now 14-14, will next travel to William Peace on Wednesday for a 2 PM non-league DH.