Explosive Sixth Inning Pushes No. 10 Duke Past UNC Greensboro, 8-1

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Wednesday, April 19

Durham, N.C.

6 p.m.

Duke University

UNC Greensboro

Explosive Sixth Inning Pushes No. 10 Duke Past UNC Greensboro, 8-1

4/19/2023 11:59:00 PM | Softball

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DURHAM – An explosive sixth inning helped lift No. 10 Duke softball (37-8, 13-5 ACC) to an 8-1 victory over UNC Greensboro (26-18, 5-3 SoCon) Wednesday night at Duke Softball Stadium.

Freshman D'Auna Jennings extends her career-best hitting streak to seven games after batting 4-for-4 with three RBI against the Spartans. Junior pitcher Jala Wright improves to 10-4 on the year after giving up just one run on two hits in her 6.0 innings of work.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Junior Francesca Frelick opened the scoring in the bottom of the second after sending a base hit deep into right field to score classmate Kelly Torres and freshman Kairi Rodriguez, who each reached on a single through the right side.
Frelick advanced to third on a throwing error by the Spartans before coming home on an RBI-single from Jennings to put the Blue Devils ahead, 2-0.
UNCG answered in the following frame after loading the bases on two walks and a single up the middle. Wright walked the next batter to record the Spartans' lone run of the night.
The Blue Devils' offense erupted again in the bottom of the sixth inning, using five hits to tack on five additional runs and pull away for the 8-1 victory.

NOTES

Rodriguez finished 3-for-3 with two doubles, one RBI and one run scored.
Jennings recorded the third multi-RBI game of her career.
Vega tallied her first career triple against the Spartans.
Duke carries a nine-game win streak into the weekend series with Georgia Tech.

UP NEXT
Duke wraps up its home schedule with a three-game series against Georgia Tech beginning on Friday at 6 p.m.

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