No. 5 Seed Lees-McRae Wins 2019 Conference Carolinas Softball Championship
BURLINGTON, N.C. - No. 5 seed Lees-McRae College captured the 2019 Conference Carolinas Softball Championship on Sunday (Apr. 28) afternoon.
The Bobcats knocked off No. 6 seed Southern Wesleyan University, 2-0, and went a perfect 4-0 during the championship. The win secured Lees-McRae its first-ever Conference Carolinas softball championship and automatically qualifies the team for the 2019 NCAA Division II Softball Championship.
2019 Softball All-Tournament Team:
Jaelin Griffin - North Greenville
Claire Doyle - Belmont Abbey
Ashley Parnell - Limestone
Caroline Ruth - Limestone
Casey Gilbert - King
Kaycee Casteel - King
Delanie Laudenbacher - Southern Wesleyan
Ashton Martin - Southern Wesleyan
Lexi Thompson - Southern Wesleyan
Noel Cassidy - Lees-McRae
Julie Gast - Lees-McRae
Katelyn Wyatt - Lees-McRae
2019 Softball Championship MVP:
Kara Cunningham - Lees-McRae
2019 Conference Carolinas Softball Champion
Lees-McRae
Conference Carolinas is a NCAA Division II athletics conference made up of 11 teams from Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. These institutions consist of: Barton College, Belmont Abbey College, Converse College, Emmanuel College, Erskine College, King University, Lees-McRae College, Limestone College, University of Mount Olive, North Greenville University, and Southern Wesleyan University.