CARROLLTON, GA â€" A revamped lineup by Chris Bellotto may have been just what the Florida Southern Moccasins needed when they opened the 2010 Wolves Invitational against Anderson College (SC). With players moved up and down throughout the batting order, the Mocs scored got either a hit or an RBI from seven different players, and scored runs in four different innings to defeat the Trojans 6-3.
Heather Raulerson, Lindsey Powell and Erin Foley were all moved into different spots in the order, and all of them came up with key hits in the game. Brittaney Alderman also swung the bat for the first time this year, and gave the Mocs their first run with a sacrifice fly that was inches from being a grand slam; and Dani Blake made her first start of the season in centerfield, and also came up with a hit the Mocs turned into a run.
In three of the four innings in which Florida Southern (7-7) scored, Powell was involved in some way. She had three hits in the game and also walked once in her four plate appearances. Foley was a part of those same three innings, scoring one run in the second, and driving in two others in the third and fifth.
Powell led off the top of the second with a wind-blown double down the leftfield line and took third on a passed ball. Foley then walked and picked up the first of her two stolen bases in the game, and another walk to Dezirae Parsons loaded the bases. That brought Alderman to the plate for the first time in her college career. Starting in right field instead of the pitcher’s circle, Alderman hit the first pitch she saw into deep left where it was caught just in front of the fence by Elisa Sebastyan. Though it didn’t quite make it out of the park, it was more than deep enough to score Powell with the first run of the game.
Two batters later, Bethany Boomer gave the Mocs another run with a double into the right centerfield gap.
The Mocs added to that total in the top of the third when Raulerson led off that inning with a double and later came home on a ground out by Foley. Like Alderman, Raulerson had just missed a home run in her first at-bat, with Sebastyan also making that catch up against the fence.
Anderson (8-7) used a walk by Cameron White and a double by Meredith Knox to score once in the bottom of the third, and the score remained 3-1 until Florida Southern pulled away with two in the fifth and one in the sixth.
Raulerson was hit by a pitch with one out in the fifth and was erased on a fielder’s choice, but the Mocs got that runner home when Powell singled and the ball got by Anderson’s rightfielder for a two-base error; Powell then scored on a base hit by Foley. The Mocs picked up their final run in the sixth inning with the help of two errors by Anderson after infield hits by Blake and Peggy Alex.
Down 6-1, the Trojans left two runners on base in the bottom of the sixth, and then scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh. Morgan Brown, who had come on in relief in Christine Clark in the fifth, was on the verge of ending the game with two quick outs in the seventh before Amber Sutherland kept it alive with a bunt single. Sebastyan doubled her home to make it 6-2, and Knox singled up the middle to put runners at the corners. A Florida Southern error then gave Anderson another run and brought the tying run to the plate, but Brown got Kasey King on a pop-up to end the game.
Clark earned the win to improve to 3-4, allowing just one run on three hits in four innings of work. Brown went the final three innings for her second save, giving up one earned run on four hits.
Casey Deer (2-3) took the loss for Anderson, though only three of the six runs she allowed were earned. She gave up eight hits in six innings.
Sebastyan and Knox each had two hits and one RBI for Anderson.
