Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Johnson City, Tenn. – Sophomore Lauralee Scott and senior Riley Ludlam combined to belt four homers and drive in nine runs in game one to lead Furman to a 12-1 victory and doubleheader splits versus ETSU in Southern Conference softball action Sunday afternoon at Betty Basler Field. The Bucs took the best-of-three series by winning game two, 8-1.
 
Furman jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the top half of the first inning. Ludlam deposited a two-run homer over the right-centerfield fence to give the Paladins the lead. After Hannah Poole and Sylvia Burroughs singled, Scott connected on her first career home run, a three-run blast to straightaway center field, to up the lead to 5-0.
 
Freshman Kiley Perry drove in a run with a two-out single to left field in the second inning before the Paladins added three more in the third inning, highlighted by Caitlin Goldwait's RBI base hit. Scott hammered a solo shot to left-center with two outs in the fourth and Ludlam recorded her second roundtripper of the afternoon with a two-run blast the following inning.
 
Starter Emme Buzhardt surrendered just an unearned run on five hits over five innings to improve to 4-5 in the circle. The sophomore walked one batter and struck out three. Scott finished 3-for-3 with four RBIs, while Ludlam went 2-for-2 with a base on balls and five driven in.
 
Sara Muir (1-6), who allowed six runs on six hits in two innings of work, suffered the loss for ETSU.
 
In game two, ETSU (9-23, 2-4 SoCon) blew open a 2-1 game with six runs in the bottom of the fifth en route to an 8-1 win. The Bucs sent 11 batters to the plate in the decisive inning. After a single and a Paladin error put two runners on base with one out, Riley Nayadley lifted a three-run homer over the right-centerfield wall to extend the ETSU lead to 5-1. The Bucs followed with four consecutive singles, including RBI base hits from Jasmine Sanchez and Emily Musco to build the seven-run advantage.
 
Whitley Arnott (1-4) picked up her first win of the season by holding Furman to a run on six hits in a complete-game effort. She walked three batters and recorded a pair of strikeouts.
 
Muir notched an RBI single and the Bucs took advantage of a Furman error to build a 2-0 lead in the first inning. Perry pulled Furman within a run in the top of the fifth when she launched a long solo blast to left field, her team-leading ninth homer of the season.
 
Sierra Tufts (7-8) absorbed the loss for Furman. The Junior allowed six runs, four earned, on eight hits over 4.1 innings of work.
 
Goldwait registered a pair of hits in game two to give her four on the afternoon. Five different Bucs recorded a pair of hits as ETSU totaled 13 safeties in game two.
 
Furman (12-21, 4-2 SoCon) travels to face No. 4 Clemson on Wednesday at McWhorter Stadium. First pitch is set for 7 p.m. and the game will air live on the ACC Network.