Pitt Drops Series Finale at Georgia Tech

Sunday, March 14

Atlanta, Ga.

12 PM

Pitt

8-11, 3-5

Georgia Tech

8-15, 3-11

Pittsburgh

Georgia Tech

Photo by: Justin Pondexter/Pitt Athletics

Pitt Drops Series Finale at Georgia Tech

3/14/2021 3:00:00 PM | Softball

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ATLANTA, Ga. – The University of Pittsburgh softball team fell to Georgia Tech, 11-4, at Mewborn Field Sunday afternoon.

NEWS & NOTES

With the loss, Pitt split the four game series with the Yellow Jackets. The Panthers enter next weekend 8-11 overall and 3-6 in conference play.
Sophomore Kayla Lane went 2-for-3 with two RBI and a homerun Sunday. The homer was the second of the series and second of her career.
Junior Katlyn Pavlick hit her fifth double of the season. She finished 1-for-3 with one RBI.

Pitt scored the first run of the game in the top of the first as senior Hunter Levesque brought in sophomore EC Taylor with a groundout up the middle. In the next at-bat, Pavlick hit a double to right center, scoring senior Morgan Batesole and putting Pitt up, 2-0. The Panthers scored a run in the first inning for the third time in the series.

Georgia Tech (8-15, 3-11 ACC) got one run back in the bottom of the first, as Emma Kauf hit a RBI triple to left center, making it a 2-1 ballgame.

A pitcher's duel ensued for the next three innings. Junior Abby Edwards recorded five strikeouts through four innings and registered back-to-back innings with a strikeout to end the frame. The Yellow Jackets gained the lead in the bottom of the fifth, as four runs scored for a 5-2 game after five innings.

Senior Walker Barbee reached on an error in the top of the sixth, and Lane hit a two-run homerun to left to get Pitt within one run (5-4). Georgia Tech answered with six runs in the bottom of the sixth inning and took an 11-4 advantage into the final inning. Pitt, who scored eight runs in the final frame the night prior, couldn't repeat that performance as a one, two, three inning ended the game.

The Panthers are back in action Friday, Mar. 19 at nationally ranked Virginia Tech at 6 p.m. Pitt will play four games against the Hokies Friday through Sunday with coverage on the ACCNX.