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COLUMBUS – The Columbus State University softball team split a pair of games Sunday to wrap up the 2018 CSU Classic. The three-day tournament was played at Cougar Field.
 
Columbus State (12-7) took its lone loss of the weekend 6-3 against Barry to start the day before bouncing back with a 9-1 win over Bloomfield.
 
"I'm pleased with the way we played this weekend," head coach Brad Huskisson said. "We would've liked to have been 5-0, but we'll take 4-1. I thought we hit the ball well up and down our lineup and got great work out of our pitchers."
 
The Lady Cougars will begin Peach Belt Conference play on Friday with a doubleheader at Georgia Southwestern. First pitch is scheduled for 4 p.m. in Americus.
 
Game One
 
CSU jumped on the board first against Barry behind three consecutive one-out singles. Calli Star started with a line drive to centerfield and Kirstin Reynolds followed suit with one to left. JoJo Beyer then put the Lady Cougars in front with a run-scoring knock to left.
 
The game held at 1-0 through four innings as Helen Snavely allowed just two hits in four scoreless frames.

Darby Demarest entered to start the fifth and gave up a single and two walks before Snavely came back into the circle. CSU forced a pair of runners out at the plate and was on the verge of getting out of the inning, but a two-out double scored three runs and pushed Barry into the lead.
 
Another double sent another run across the plate for the Bucs and put the Lady Cougars in a 4-1 hole.
 
CSU answered right back though, as Keeli Waugh launched a two-run homer to bring the deficit down to just one. However, Barry matched it with a two-run shot of its own in the seventh.
 
The Lady Cougars got the tying run to the plate with two outs in the seventh, but a groundout ended the contest.
 
Star and Waugh each had a pair of hits for the Lady Cougars.
 
Game Two
 
The bats got rolling in game two as CSU pounded out 13 hits in just four innings at the plate.
 
Beyer started the scoring in the second with an opposite-field home run. McKenzie Fagioli then singled through the right side with the bases loaded to score a run and Elizabeth Perdue followed with a two-run single through the middle.
 
In the fourth, Fagioli picked up another RBI knock to right and Star sent her third home run of the year over the wall to give the Lady Cougars the eight-run lead necessary for the mercy rule.
 
The top four in the CSU order combined to go 9-for-12 at the plate, led by Fagioli's 3-for-3 night.
 
Harley Dawson (2-2) went the distance in the circle for the Lady Cougars, allowing just an unearned run in five innings.