CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – All five North Carolina Central University seniors had at least one hit and one RBI on the day as the Lady Eagles swept visiting Appalachian State University at UNC's Anderson Stadium on Saturday afternoon by scores of 9-7 and 8-5.
 
NCCU honored its five seniors between games, including second baseman Jenny Tracy, third baseman Markell Wylie, pitcher London Booker, catcher Casey Hargett and outfielder Kayleigh Brueck.
 
NCCU finished its season at 8-42 overall. App State will enter its final games of the season on Sunday with a 9-45 overall mark.
 
GAME ONE: N.C. Central 9, Appalachian State 7
 
Brueck crushed a pair of home runs, including a walk-off blast with one out in the bottom of the seventh to rally NCCU to the dramatic 9-7 victory.
 
The Lady Eagles trailed 7-3 before scoring four runs in the sixth to level the score. Brueck drilled her first homer of the day, a two-run shot to center, to highlight the comeback.
 
Hargett reached on an error to start the seventh and two batters later Brueck deposited her game-ending long ball beyond the left field fence. Brueck finished with four RBI in the contest.
 
Three seniors had two hits apiece for NCCU as Wylie and Tracy joining Brueck with a pair of base knocks.
 
A three-run homer by Tracy provided NCCU with an early 3-1 advantage after the first inning before the Mountaineers rattled off six consecutive unanswered runs.
 
Tracy finished the season with a team-high five home runs and Brueck doubled up her home run total to four in her final year.
 
App State jumped ahead with four runs in the third that featured a game-tying, two-run double by senior Pepper Butler and a go-ahead, two-run homer by junior Katie Mathewson. The Mountaineers tacked one more run in both the fourth and fifth before the Lady Eagles fought back.
 
NCCU used three pitchers in the opener with junior reliever Jennifer Allison picking up the win. Allison (2-13) tossed the final two innings without allowing a run. Booker was the starter and she registered her 400th career strikeout in the second inning.
 
GAME TWO: N.C. Central 8, Appalachian State 5
 
Both teams came out swinging in the nightcap scoring in each half of the first three innings.
 
A two-run homer by junior Cara Parker gave App State an initial 2-nil advantage in the first. The visitors lead grew to 4-1 with two more runs in the second that featured an RBI-triple by freshman Megan Walker. A solo shot by sophomore Heather Josey regained the lead, 5-4, for the Mountaineers in the third.
 
NCCU responded with runs all three times early. Hargett started the Lady Eagles scoring with a run-producing single in the first. The Maroon and Gray then grabbed its first lead of the day with four runs in the second on the aid of RBI base hits off of the bats of Wylie and Tracy. After App State tied the game, Brueck scored on a wild pitch in the third to put the hosts ahead for good.
 
A two-run single by Booker in the fifth increased the Lady Eagles cushion to three runs.
 
App State kept fighting and put the potential tying runs on base in the seventh. With the bases loaded and just one out, junior Dominique Wilson ended the threat with consecutive threats.
 
Junior Brianna Hampton tallied three of NCCU's nine hits but App State actually outhit the Lady Eagles for the second straight game. Wylie, Brueck and Hampton all scored twice.
 
Wilson (1-11) secured the win with six strong innings of relief of Allison.  Wilson fanned eight Mountaineers and allowed just two earned runs to pick up the victory.