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SB26 Mikaela Goss with a catch at the center field wall vs UMO
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Winner Mount Olive UMO 31-23, 19-12 CONF CAR
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Francis Marion FMU 41-11, 23-5 CONF CAR
Winner
Mount Olive UMO
31-23, 19-12 CONF CAR
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Final
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Francis Marion FMU
41-11, 23-5 CONF CAR
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Mount Olive UMO 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 6 2
Francis Marion FMU 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1

W: Alex Steen (19-7) L: Walling, Jenna (26-7)

Game Recap: Softball |

Trojans stun #11 Francis Marion 1-0 in semifinals

DUNCAN, SC – Junior right-hander Alex Steen tossed a two-hit shutout as seventh-seeded University of Mount Olive stunned top-seeded and 11th-ranked Francis Marion University 1-0, Saturday morning (Apr. 25) in the semifinals of the 2026 Conference Carolinas Softball Tournament.
 
Francis Marion sees its 10-game winning streak snapped and drops to 41-11.  The Patriots drop into the elimination bracket and will face the Southern Wesleyan University/Chowan University winner at 2 p.m. on Saturday for the right to go to Sunday's championship game.  Mount Olive (31-23) advances to Sunday's championship game at noon at Tyger Park in Duncan, S.C.
 
FMU graduate student righty Jenna Walling (26-7) allowed only six hits and a fifth-inning run.  She struck out two and walked two.
 
Steen (19-7) finished with three strikeouts, while working around eight walks.  It was the first time FMU has been shutout since the 2024 season.
 
Patriot senior shortstop Madalyn White extended her streak of safely reaching base to 24 games with a third-inning bunt single.  Junior designated hitter McKenzie Jewell had the other Patriot hit with a fifth-inning single.  However, that ball hit the runner going from first to second resulting in the inning-ending out.
 
Francis Marion had at least one base runner in every inning.  The Patriots stranded runners on second and third in the third, two runners in the fourth, and runners on the corners in the sixth.
 
The Trojans scored their one run after a bunt single and an RBI-double off the base of the left field wall by UMO left fielder Samantha Taylor.

FMU graduate student center fielder Mikaela Goss kept it a one-run when she made a catch crashing into the center field wall with two runners on in the sixth inning.
 
In the bottom of the seventh, the first two Patriots were retired.  Walling walked and was replaced by a pinch runner.  Jewell hit a grounder to the second baseman, but the flip to the shortstop covering second was wild allowing the runner to reach and then advance to third.  When Jewell went to second, the ball was thrown there, with the lead runner then attempting to score the tying run, but she was tagged out in a run-down to end the contest.
  
FMU senior left fielder Anderson Thrower had her 15-game hitting streak ended with an 0-for-4 day.
 
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