DAHLONEGA, Ga. - It was another split on day two of the UNG Invitational for the University of West Georgia softball team on Saturday.

West Georgia (3-5) defeated Emmanuel for the second time this weekend in game one and then fell to Catawba in the finale, playing just six innings because of rain moving into the area.

GAME ONE: West Georgia 10, Emmanuel 8
Emmanuel scored first, using a leadoff walk, a productive out, a wild pitch, and a single to take a 1-0 lead. It was short-lived, however, as the Wolves mounted a two-out rally in the second as Rylee Green and Madison Vandergriff walked and later scored on a two-RBI single by Zekylah Boyd.

It was a throwing error and a walk that presented trouble for UWG in the fourth, and Emmanuel would take advantage with Gabby Buffington doubling home a pair of runs to reclaim the lead for the Lions.

West Georgia would respond with seven runs in the fifth, scoring the first on an error to cash in a leadoff walk and hit batsmen. Emerson Miller then doubled home a run to make it a 5-3 lead for the Wolves. A wild pitch brought in the Wolves' sixth run of the game and Vandergriff singled home a pair to stretch the lead to five. Blaire Bizette picked up an RBI in the inning as well, giving the Wolves the 9-3 lead.

Emmanuel got two runs back in the sixth inning to close the gap, and after UWG scored a single seventh-inning run, the Lions scored three in the final frame, but the Wolves held on for the victory.

Bijzette had three of UWG's nine hits in the win while Boyd and Vandergriff each had two RBIs. 

MaKayla Register pitched 6.1 innings and earned the win allowing four earned runs on five hits.

GAME TWO: Catawba 7, West Georgia 2
Both teams had zeroes in the first, and it was Catawba who took the first lead of the game with two singles sandwiched around a stolen base in the second inning

In the third, West Georgia got an RBI single to lead it off from Zekylah Boyd, and she would score on a single by Tamia Young. Blaire Bizette then drove in Megan Waites who got on with a walk, and West Georgia led, 2-1.

After a scoreless fourth, Catawba struck for six runs in the fifth, using three walks and four hits to reclaim the lead and then some, going up 7-2.

The game would end an inning early as rain moved into the area in the sixth inning.

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West Georgia softball returns home on Tuesday for the 2024 home opener as the Wolves host Clark Atlanta in a 2 p.m. doubleheader.