MOUNT VERNON, Ga. - The Brewton-Parker Christian University (BPCU) Barons softball team traveled to Montgomery Ala., to take on the Faulkner Eagles in a conference doubleheader on April 23, 2026. The Barons dropped a closely contested game one 4-3 and dropped game two 2-1 in the bottom of the seventh.
Faulkner set the tone early with two runs in the first. a two-run single through the left side for a 2-0 lead. The Barons chipped away in the second inning when Alyssa Usrey reached and later scored on a wild pitch, trimming the deficit to 2-1. The Barons rallied at the top of the third when Morgan Willingham hit a two-run home run to left field, pushing Brewton-Parker in front 3-2. The Eagles would rally to erase the lead and take the game. Faulkner responded in the bottom of the third with the game's final two runs, with an RBI double that put the Eagles back in front, 4-3.
Game two was a defensive pitching duel that the Barons struck first in the top of the fifth inning. Madisyn Hallar singled and later came around to score during a sequence that also included Eboni Medina's single and Tori Wright reaching on a third-base fielding error. Wright was credited with the RBI, while Hallar's run was unearned, giving the Barons a 1-0 advantage.
Natalie O'Neal kept Brewton-Parker in front deep into the game. The Barons' right-hander worked 6.2 innings, allowing two runs on nine hits with two walks on 91 pitches. O'Neal did not record a strikeout, but she limited the damage for most of the night and carried the lead into the final inning before Faulkner's string of late hits turned the game. The Eagles would strike in the bottom of the seventh to score the game-tying run with an RBI double and then hit a walkoff single to win the game.
The Barons will look to bounce back on the road, taking on the Skyhawks of Point University in West Point, Ga., on April 24, 2026.
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