Athens, TN - In the final non-conference game of the regular season, #3 Cumberlands Patriots traveled to face Tennessee Wesleyan in a single contest. The Pats took the tight game, 3-1. The win gives UC the season series, since they defeated the Bulldogs 3-0 earlier this season. Cumberlands is now 37-3 on the season.

It was pitching by committee today for the Pats, with four different pitchers in the contest. No earned runs were scored against them and they gave up just five hits combined. Kaiti White got the start, striking out one and giving up just two hits. Talli Burgess entered the circle in the third inning, giving up just one hit in her two innings. Morgan Radford led the staff with four strikeouts across her pair of frames to earn the win. Lindsey Shope pitched the final inning of the game and earned a strikeout to get the save.

For the first time in her career as a Patriot, Carly Oliver recorded two doubles in the contest. Both were leadoffs and resulted in her scoring later in the inning for two of the three runs. UC had three more doubles in the game, one from Makenzie Keatts, Maddie Sickau and Emily Bryant all resulting in a RBI.

Oliver led the game off with a double to left field. She advanced to third during the next at bat. Then Keatts stepped in and launched the ball to right center to bring Oliver around and make it a 1-0 game.

White struckout the first batter she saw and then retired the next two batters to get the Bulldogs down in order. Then in the second frame Tennessee Wesleyan got a run to tie the game at 1-1.

In the fourth, with Burgess on the mound and the team got a three up, three down inning. Then Radford came in to pitch in the fifth and struckout the side and then turned it over to the offense in the sixth frame.

Once again it was Oliver who got the bats going, launching a double, once again to left field. Sickau was the next batter and she followed it up with a double of her own, scoring Oliver. Then Bryant kept the hit parade going, get a double of her own, her's down the left field line to give the Pats the 3-1 lead.
 

The Bulldogs got a runner on in the bottom of the sixth, but Radford picked up her fourth K of the contest to leave them stranded.

Then in the seventh, Shope stepped to the mound and struckout the first batter she faced to make it back-to-back strikeouts from the staff. She got two more outs to secure the win, making it 11 straight for the Pats. 

Cumberlands will return home for their final regular season series at the UC Softball Complex. The Pats will host Pikeville for a three game series, starting on Friday, April 19. It will be a doubleheader with first game starting at 1PM ET with their senior celebration.