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Carolina Falls To East Carolina
February 13, 2003 | Softball
Feb. 13, 2003
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- The University of North Carolina softball team fell to East Carolina 4-1 this afternoon on the UNC Softball Complex. The two teams played the remainder of yesterday's game that was postponed due to darkness after five innings with ECU leading 4-1. UNC falls to 1-3, while ECU improves to 1-1.
In the first five innings yesterday, ECU scored first in the bottom of the third inning with a home run by Kristen Johnson as the Tar Heels trailed 1-0. North Carolina answered in the top half of the fourth as junior Jessica Robinson (Asheboro, N.C.) slugged a two out single into center field to score Porter.
East Carolina's pitcher Brently Bridgeforth pitched a complete game for the Pirates, giving up three hits and striking out six. UNC's Ashley Allen (Houston, Texas) pitched 3.1 innings, allowing four hits, four runs, one earned run and walked four. Sophomore Brandi Griffin (Wilmington, N.C.) pitched the final 2.2 innings, giving up one hit, no runs, while striking out two.
ECU tallied three more runs in the fifth as the Tar Heels walked a couple and made two costly errors as they trailed the Pirates 4-1. Neither team managed a run in the final two innings of the game as the Pirated won by three.
Carolina scored one run, on three hits and three errors. East Carolina scored four runs, on five hits and one error.
Leading the Tar Heels offensively was Robinson. She ended the game 2-for-3 with one RBI. Porter had the other hit for UNC. Pacing ECU was Kristen Johnson who finished 2-for-3 with a home run and three RBI.
North Carolina will host the Triangle Classic Softball Tournament Friday, Feb. 14-Sunday, Feb. 16. Carolina will play Rutgers at 4 p.m. and Dayton at 6 p.m. on Friday. Saturday morning at 9 a.m., the Tar Heels will take on Charleston Southern and then begin bracket play at 1:30 p.m.
