Auburn's women's softball team defeated South Carolina with a final score of 7-5 in the first round of the SEC Tournament Wednesday in Columbia, S.C.
Auburn made good contact with the Gamecocks' pitching for most of the game.
Coach Clint Myers and his Tigers (39-16-1, 11-13 SEC) had a great offensive approach going into the game and executed it early on.
The winning pitcher was Lexi Davis. She allowed six hits, five earned runs and had two strikeouts.
Marcy Harper finished the game for Auburn in the final two innings, striking out two and only allowing one hit and no earned runs.
South Carolina took two of three from Auburn last weekend in the regular season, but Wednesday, the Tigers showed up to play.
Auburn started off hot in the first inning with a first-pitch homerun by Emily Carosone and then back-to-back doubles that resulted in a two-run lead.
In the third inning, Davis had two strikeouts and Auburn remained at a two-run lead.
Austyn West exploded on a hanging curveball for a homerun to lead off the fourth inning, giving the Tigers a 3-0 lead.
After 40 pitches and West's homerun, South Carolina replaced their pitcher, Julie Sarratt, with Nickie Blue in the fourth.
Auburn's fourth run scored in the fourth inning after a wild pitch from South Carolina.
The bottom of the fourth inning is when South Carolina got back in the game with an RBI double by Kristen Struett and a homerun by Victoria Williams.
South Carolina started to attack Davis' pitching in the fifth inning and tied it up after Ashlyn Master's solo home run.
Auburn was shut out in the fifth inning, but capitalized in the sixth inning when they scored two runs to lead 6-4.
Harper entered the game as pitcher after South Carolina hit a homerun in the bottom of the sixth to cut the Tigers' lead to 6-5.
Auburn extended their lead to two in the seventh inning and held on to beat South Carolina 7-5.
The Tigers will play Alabama tomorrow night at 5:30 p.m.
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