CARROLLTON, Ga. – The Flames may have been the visiting squad, but nothing was hotter than Alley Taylor's bat on Friday as the UWG softball team swept the Lee Flames in a Gulf South Conference doubleheader at University Field.
 
Taylor ended the day going 3-for-6 with three home runs and six RBIs, leading the Wolves (15-6, 11-3 GSC) to an 11-7 win in game one and a 3-1 victory in game two.
 
In game one, the Wolves were ahead going to the sixth inning, but the Flames' Madison Besaw slugged a grand slam, turning the tide a 7-5 Flames lead. Then stepped in Alley Taylor. With the bases loaded, the senior delivered a towering grand slam to give the Wolves a lead they would not relinquish.
 
The series opener didn't start well for the Wolves as Lee (9-11, 7-7 GSC) opened up a 2-0 lead, tacking a pair of earned runs on Kya Draper in the first inning.
 
West Georgia fought right back with runs in the first and second. In the bottom of the first, Kristyn Nix scored on a passed ball and Alley Taylor slugged the first of her three home runs of the day in the second, making it a 3-2 Lee lead after two.
 
Nix, Kayla Hughes, and Chandler Mevis each drove in runs in a three-run fourth that put the Wolves up. Leslie Brogden led off that inning with a double and Hannah Scarbrough and Ashley Ellison also had hits in the frame.
 
West Georgia and Draper were cruising until they reached the sixth when Besaw put the Flames on her back, setting up the big bottom half of the sixth and the Taylor heroics.
 
Chandler Mevis got the first RBI of the sixth inning as she was hit by a pitch with the bases juiced. After Taylor's grand slam, Ellison picked up an RBI single to push the lead to 11-7.
 
Lexi Close earned the win, pitching 1.1 innings of one-hit relief. Draper ended the day with 5.2 innings pitched and seven earned runs.
 
West Georgia used two home runs in game two to provide three runs for starter Morgan Goree who did the rest, fanning 12 batters in a complete game that saw her allow just two hits and one run.
 
The first home run in game two came off the bat of Kayla Hughes, as she slugged her third of the season, a two-run bomb.
 
Taylor followed with her third of the day and fifth of the season in the third.
 
Goree allowed just one hit over six innings, but surrendered a seventh inning hit that ended up being Lee's only run of the game.
 
It was Goree's sixth career game with double-digit strikeouts.
 
The Wolves and Flames will wrap up their three-game set on Saturday with a 1 p.m. contest at University Field.