DAHLONEGA | For the second time in her career, Courtney Poole was perfect in the circle for the University of North Georgia softball team, sitting down 18 straight to defeat Coker, 9-0, in six innings. It marked the third perfect game in North Georgia history. The Nighthawks dropped their first game of the day to Wingate, 4-1.
 
GAME ONE
Mellena Helms got the Bulldogs on the board almost immediately depositing the second pitch of the game over the left field wall. The Nighthawks would even the score at 1-1 with a sacrifice fly by Laura Spivey to score Kelly Kahlert from third.
 
Wingate would score three unanswered with another solo homer by Helms in the third and two-run single in the fifth for the final 4-1 score.
 
GAME TWO
Meredith Heyer got the Nighthawks on the board in the first inning with a RBI single that scored Stephanie Hartness. Hartness scored again in the second when she hit a three-run homer to right center.
 
Hannah McSwain hit her first home run of the season in the fourth. The three-run shot to left center scored Alexis Collis and Whitney Worth to make it 7-0.
 
Heyer earned two more RBI in the sixth when she hit a single through the left side that scored Hartness and Meagan May.
 
Poole struck out 11 Cobras in the contest including two innings where she struck out the side.
 
NOTES
- Poole finished the day with 21 strikeouts combined, adding on to her NCAA-leading total. She now has 190 strikeouts in 2016.
 
- North Georgia is now 20-5 on the season.
 
- Hartness finished the day 3-for-6 with three runs scored and three RBI. May finished 3-for-7 with two runs scored.
 
- In the other two games of the Captain D's Surf & Turf Classic Saturday, Wingate defeated UVA-Wise 10-2 in five innings. UVA-Wise bounced back in the nightcap with a thrilling 9-8 win over Coker.
 
NEXT UP
North Georgia will play in the final two games of the Captain D's Surf & Turf Classic starting with Wingate at 1:00 p.m.