CLEVELAND, Tenn. – The Montevallo softball team split a doubleheader with Lee on April 7 with a bounce-back 16-8 win in game two after falling 5-4 in game one. 
 
GAME ONE
The Falcons' comeback effort was stopped short in game one with Lee taking a 5-4 victory while Montevallo left 11 runners on base throughout the game.
 
The Falcons offense wasted no time in getting the first hit of the day with Shelby Sloan singling on the second pitch of the afternoon. Montevallo would load the bases in the next two at-bats but a double play and a pop up left two runners stranded for the Falcons. 
 
A bases-clearing triple from the Lady Flames put Montevallo in an early 3-0 hole after the first. 
 
Montevallo answered with a run of its own in the second. Following an Olivia Bergert walk, Georgia Hughes and Ellie Derrick went back-to-back with singles to load the bases with just one out. Sloan singled on the first pitch of her at-bat to score Montevallo's first run of the game. A pair of outs to end the inning stranded three Falcons on the bases. 
 
Lee would go on to score a fourth run to make the score 4-1 after two. The score would remain unchanged until the Lady Flames took a 5-1 lead with an RBI single in the fourth. 
 
With one out in the top of the fifth, Lauren Higginbotham singled into center before Lily Stone's first hit of the series moved her into scoring position. In the next at-bat, Sydnee Reaves tripled down the right field line two score both runners and cut the lead down to 5-3. 
 
The Falcons' defense held Lee scoreless in the bottom of the inning before trimming the lead to one with a run in the sixth. With runners on first and second, Higginbotham drove in a run to make the score 5-4. 
 
Montevallo kept Lee off the board in the sixth to head into the Falcons' final at-bat down by one run. An Alisha Lanyon double put the tying run on base before Georgia Hughes' infield single gave Montevallo two runners with two outs. A final fly out ended the Falcons comeback and handed Lee a 5-4 win to open the doubleheader. 
 
GAME INFORMATION 
Score: Montevallo 4 | Lee 5
Records: Montevallo 12-19 (6-11 GSC) | Lee 10-29 (5-15 GSC)
Location: Butler Field | Cleveland, Tenn. 
 
GAME NOTES

• Montevallo scored four runs on 13 hits with four RBI, four doubles and three walks while Lee plated five runs on nine hits with five RBI a double and a triple. 
• A host of Falcons went 2-for-4 from the plate with Shelby Sloan and Lauren Higginbotham being the only two with an RBI. 
• Sydnee Reaves led the Falcons run production with a 1-for-4 mark in the box and two RBI. 

 
GAME TWO 
The Falcons' bats were on fire from the start of game two with a total of 15 hits to score 16 runs and take game two, 16-8. 
 
Montevallo scored the first run of the game just eight pitches into the first inning with back-to-back doubles from Shelby Sloan and Taylor Robinson. Freshman Lily Stone brought Robinson in with a two-out single to give Montevallo an early 2-0 lead.
 
With Taylor Lloyd starting in the circle, Montevallo held Lee scoreless through the first two innings until a two-run home run from Lee in the third knotted the score at 2-2. 
 
The Falcons responded with a five-run fourth inning sparked by consecutive singles from Maddie Taylor and Sloan that loaded the bases for Robinson. Robinson notched her second RBI of the game with a single to take a 3-2 Montevallo lead. Alisha Lanyon went yard for her seventh homer of the year and a grand slam that lifted the Falcons to a 7-2 advantage after the top of the fourth. 
 
In the next Falcon at-bat, Sydnee Reaves hit a lead-off triple and scored on a Georgia Hughes RBI two batters later. 
 
Lee added three runs in the bottom of the fifth to trim the Falcon lead down to 8-5. 
 
In the top of the sixth, Montevallo put up another five-run inning that was sparked by a Lee error that put Lanyon on base and advanced a walked Robinson to second. Lauren Higginbotham singled to juice the bases before Stone recorded her second RBI of the game with a single to center. A second Lee error brought home two Falcons to give Montevallo an 11-5 lead. 
 
Lee cut into the Falcons' lead with a three-run sixth inning but Montevallo kept the Lady Flames at bay with a three-run seventh. Lanyon led-off the seventh with a double and, after advancing to third on a wild pitch, scored in the next at-bat off a Higginbotham double. Reaves' ninth home run of the year scored Higginbotham and lifted Montevallo to its 16-8 win. 
 
GAME INFORMATION 
Score: Montevallo 16 | Lee 8
Records: Montevallo 13-19 (7-11 GSC) | Lee 10-30 (5-16 GSC)
Location: Butler Field | Cleveland, Tenn. 
 
GAME NOTES

• Montevallo scored 16 runs on 15 hits with 15 RBI, five doubles, a triple, and two home runs.
• Alisha Lanyon led the Falcons' offense with a 2-for-5 mark from the plate with a grand slam in the fourth and three runs scored. 
• Taylor Robinson put together an impressive 2-for-3 game in the box with two RBI, a double, and two runs scored.
• Taylor Lloyd moved to 4-7 on the season with a win in a 4.0 inning appearance while allowing just five hits and two earned runs with three strikeouts.
• Ariana Pinder got the Falcons out of a bases-loaded jam in the bottom of the second to secure her first save of the season. 

UP NEXT: The Falcons will start a two-series home stretch on April 15 when Montevallo hosts Delta State at 2 p.m.