MOUNT OLIVE - The softball team ended their regular season with a doubleheader split at Mount Olive College this afternoon. Chowan won game one 4-3 but lost the second game 10-1.

Chowan scored four runs in the 3rd inning to give them enough to hold on to the win. With runners at first and second, Mindy Bird drilled a line drive up the middle to score their first run. Tricia Gorman singled in Kaytee McLaughlin to get up 2-0 while Gorman was knocked in on a Jenna Lassiter double for a 3-0 lead. Melissa Woodrum accounted for the 4th run after using a sacrifice fly to score Lassiter and give Chowan a 4-0 lead.

Krystle Thomas and the Hawks defense held off comeback attempts by the Trojans in the 5th inning. Thomas gave up eight hits and three runs for her 9th win of the season. The Hawks tallied six hits in the game.

Mount Olive bounced back to win the night cap 10-1 and held Chowan to two hits. Gorman accounted for the lone run with a solo homerun in the top of the 1st inning. That homerun marked Gorman's 7th homerun of the season, the most single season homeruns by a freshman in four-year program history. Sara Teh pitched in the game, picking up the loss after tossing three innings and giving up three runs. Melissa Woodrum threw the last two innings allowing six hits and seven runs.

Head Coach Mandi Balduf guided her team to 22 season wins in her first season at the helm of the program.