The Lee University softball team claimed a doubleheader sweep of the University of Montevallo on Saturday afternoon from Butler Field.
The Lady Flames won game one, 4-2 before the bats came alive and took the nightcap, 13-3.
Lily Hatcher had a 4-for-6 day with a walk and a pair of stolen bases and Annalyn Ormsby went 4-for-7 with an RBI a stolen base to lead Lee.
Game One: Lee 4, Montevallo 2
The Lady Flames took advantage of three Montevallo errors in game number one. In the first Laney Harris reached on a dropped fly ball to the right fielder and a throwing error allowed Hatcher to score the first run of the contest. Then, with the bases loaded and two outs Anna Marie Stooksbury walked in a run to take a 2-0 lead.
The Falcons answered right back in the second. Carlee Mullinax drew a leadoff walk before Sierra Easterwood hit a two-run liner that climbed over the fence to even the score.
In the fifth, the hosts used another error to regain the lead for good. On a double steal, Hatcher reached third via a muffed throw and scored as the ball leaked into left field to take a 3-2 advantage. Ormsby then drove a pitch into the outfield for an RBI single and the 4-2 score held up for the conference win.
Hatcher went 2-for-3 with a walk and Ormsby had a 2-for-3 contest with an RBI. Madison Besaw had a .500 (1-for-2) game and drew a base on balls.
Madison Barnett got the start in the circle and went 6.1 innings scattering two hits and allowing two runs. Barnett also struck out seven batters and gave up only two walks while improving to 3-2 on the season. Shonna Penny came in and got the final two outs of the contest with one strikeout to pick up her first save on the year.
Easterwood and pinch-hitter Fallon Groves picked up the only two hits.
Mychael McMillan was the Falcon starter going 4.1 innings giving up five hits, four runs (three earned) to go with five strikeouts while falling to 4-2 on the season. Marby Norris came in and recorded a 1.2 innings allowing a hit and striking out a batter.
Game Two: Lee 13, Montevallo 3 (5 innings)
In game number two the Lady Flames scored early and often. But it was Montevallo who struck first with an Easterwood two-run home run over the left-field foul pole in the first but it was all Lee the rest of the way.
Laney Harris hit a sacrifice fly to score Kayla Louie to cut the lead in half and a couple of plays later Abby McKinney found her way on base on a throwing error by the pitcher to even things at two. Madison Richards came through with a bases-clearing triple down the left-field line and the Lady Flames sent all nine batters to the plate to take a 5-2 lead after one.
In the second, Coach Russel's squad sent 12 batters to the plate scoring six runs to stretch the lead to nine. Harris singled through the right side to plate two. McKinney and Stooksbury each had an RBI single and Ormsby scored on a wild pitch and Besaw ended the scoring with a sac fly to center to take an 11-2 lead after two.
Montevallo plated a run in the third but the Lady Flames answered with two more of their own in the bottom half of the inning and ended the contest early up 10.
Louie had a 2-for-2 outing with an RBI and a walk while Hatcher went 2-for-4. Harris had herself a game going 2-for-3 with three RBIs and Ormsby went 2-for-4. Richards finished the game 2-for-3 to go with a game-high 4 RBIs.
Taylor De Adder got the start and went 2.1 innings allowing three hits, three runs (two earned) while walking one and striking out four. Gracie Leslie came in and got the win with 2.1 innings of effective relief work giving up just one hit to improve to 1-3. Mallory Orchard got the final out of the contest on the only batter she faced.
Norris started the contest and got tagged with the loss lasting only two outs but allowed only one hit, five runs (one earned) while walking three.
The Lady Flames wrap up their weekend series with Montevallo on Sunday at Butler Field. The first pitch is scheduled for 2 p.m.
