CARROLLTON, Ga. - The west winds were chilly but the West Georgia bats were not as the UWG softball team slugged out 38 runs in a Tuesday doubleheader, sweeping the Clark Atlanta Panthers in a non-conference doubleheader.

The opener was a 13-3, five-inning victory that saw West Georgia (5-5) slug two home runs and win their fourth game of the year. In the second game, the Wolves scored 25 runs is the most single-game runs scored by a UWG team in school history. Only nine teams in Gulf South Conference history have ever scored over 25 runs in a single-game.

GAME ONE: West Georgia 13, Clark Atlanta 3
Emerson Miller and Rylee Green put the Wolves on the board in the second, as Miller got on with a one-out single and came to score on an RBI-double from Green. After moving to third, Green would come in as Madison Vandergriff picked up an RBI with a single. 

Clark Atlanta (2-8) got a run back on an error in the third, but the Wolves would respond with a pair in the bottom half. With two outs, Blaire Bizette doubled to the left center gap, and then R.J. Janke hit her second home run of the season and the 19th of her career, putting the Wolves up 4-1 through three.

The Wolves poured it on in the fourth, scoring nine runs in the frame. Rylee Green started it with a scoreboard-clearing home run, putting the Wolves up 5-1. Makayla Register then doubled and two walks later, the Wolves loaded the bases and pushed a run across on a CAU error. Addison Sturdivant's pinch hit single then pushed two runs across and Bizette added another on a sac fly. A wild pitch pushed one more across in the form of Sturdivant and another error added the Wolves' 11th run of the game. In her second at-bat of the inning, Register singled home another run and a bases loaded walk scored the final inning of the run.

Clark Atlanta added two runs in the top of the fifth before the game ended there with UWG up by 10.

UWG had nine hits as a team, getting two each from Register and Green. Janke, Sturdivant, and Green registered multiple RBI.

Register got the win in the circle, pitching four innings and allowing one run on one hit while striking out five.

GAME TWO: West Georgia 25, Clark Atlanta 5
West Georgia wasted no time in getting started offensively, picking right up where they left off game one with an eight spot. Three of the first four batters walked to load the bases, and an error by the Panthers' shortstop allowed the first run. Register then singled home another run and a bases loaded walk added the third run before another error brought two runners home. The sixth run scored on a wild pitch and Blaire Bizette's single made it 8-0.

Boyd gave the Wolves three runs in the third on an opposite field home run that made it an 11-0 West Georgia lead.

A nine spot in the third inning gave the Wolves their first 20-run game since 2019. Emily Bodenheimer drove in the first two runs of the inning and Makayla Register singled home the next. Jacelyn Lahr used a sac fly to give the Wolves their 14th run and an Izzy Pinto made it a 15-0 lead. A fourth CAU error resulted in the next UWG run, and a Bizette double followed by a Destry Lambert single pushed the final three innings of the frame across.

Clark Atlanta got on the board in the fourth, pushing two runs across, before the Wolves added five more runs on five walks and a pair of hits from Kaprice Leonard and Izzy Pinto in the bottom half of the fourth.

In the fifth, Clark Atlanta scored three runs before the Wolves ended the game with a 20-run advantage.

West Georgia had 10 hits in the win, getting multi-hit games from Pinto, Bizette and Register with Bizette's four RBIs leading the way. Bizette also started in the circle, pitching a complete game and allowing just one earned run while striking out nine.

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West Georgia travels to Christian Brothers this weekend for a three-game weekend series that begins on Saturday in Memphis.