Sarah Wright, seen in earlier days, is a homer-hitting college softball star. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)
Not even the fog can stop her.
Playing on a day when weather first delayed her game, then shortened it, Coupeville grad Sarah Wright came up huge in the clutch Sunday in Tennessee.
Blasting a two-out, game-tying three-run homerun, the former Wolf star sparked Sewanee: The University of the South to a come-from-behind 6-5 win against the #5 ranked team in NCAA D-III softball.
Using a five-run rally to topple Birmingham-Southern in a game shortened to five innings, the Tigers won their second-straight game after dropping their first 11 contests of the season.
Sewanee was supposed to play three games this weekend, but Saturday’s doubleheader was postponed by weather.
Sunday’s twin-bill was cut down to one game, and only after the teams sat out a 30-minute fog delay midgame.
When she was on the field Sunday Wright was a holy terror.
The former CHS Valedictorian doubled, then came around to score to carry Sewanee to an early 1-0 lead.
She saved her best for last, however, crushing a ball down the left field line to knot the game at 5-5 with Sewanee down to its final out.
The Tigers won three batters later when Kendall Goodrum punched an RBI single to score Michaela Walker with the walk-off winner.
Wright, who is in her junior season at Sewanee, is finally set to play a full season on the diamond after her first two campaigns in Tennessee were shortened by the pandemic.
She’s piled up nine hits, including three doubles and Sunday’s four-bagger, to go with seven runs, seven RBI, and three walks this season.
The crunch-time home run against Birmingham-Southern was the third round-tripper of Wright’s collegiate career.
Sewanee returns to action — weather permitting — next weekend, when it squares off with Hendrix College from Arkansas.
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