ATHENS, Ga. | Virginia Mambelli drove in a career-high three runs and Sydney Scapin was able to halt a rally attempt by UNC Wilmington in the seventh for her first career save as the South Alabama softball held on for a 6-4 win Sunday on day three of the 17th Annual Bulldog Classic at Turner Softball Complex.

Quotable – head coach Becky Clark
- On the win: "Today was a good team win. I thought Tori (Miller) threw a great game and Scape (Sydney Scapin) came in behind her and finished it off. We had some great defensive plays in there as well, as (Olivia) Branstetter made some great grabs at third and (Brooklynn) Bockhaus made two plays in left that were game savers. (Sydney) Stewart came in off the bench and helped us get the big inning going. I thought there was a log of good stuff all the way around. We needed to bounce back and finish the weekend off the right way."

Key Moments
•    South Alabama (13-7) broke a scoreless tie with a manufactured run in the top of the fourth. Gracie Dees led off the inning with an infield single deep in the hole at short, and after a stolen base and a passed ball, pinch runner Regained Franka came home on Mambelli's sacrifice fly to left (USA, 1-0)
•    The Jaguars erupted for four runs their next time up as Sydney Stewart began the frame with a pinch-hit infield single to start the fifth
•    Stewart moved all the way to third on Brooklynn Bockhaus' sacrifice bunt, and after Lively drew her second walk of the game to put runners at the corners, Stewart came home on a delayed double steal (USA, 2-0)
•    Lively then stole third – her second stolen base of the inning – and came home one batter later when Dees lined a RBI double to the gap in right center (USA, 3-0)
•    After a pitching change, Olivia Branstetter in a single in shallow left center to put runners at the corners, and Dees scored on a wild pitch (USA, 4-0)
•    Mambelli capped off the scoring in the inning and plated her second run of the game with a RBI double to the gap in left center (USA, 5-0) to bring in Branstetter
•    UNC Wilmington (8-8) broke through with a run in the bottom of the sixth as with two on, Averie Daughtry lined a two-out, single to right center to score Ava Brookshire (USA, 5-1) from second, who had drawn a leadoff walk to start the inning
•    South Alabama got the run right back though as Mambelli plated her third run of the game, scoring Dees (walk) from third with her second sacrifice fly of the contest (USA, 6-1)
•    The Seahawks tried to rally back in the final frame, scoring three runs on RBI singles by Cassidy Relay and Emily Whitwell, and a sac fly to center by Allison Corbin (USA, 6-4)
•    With the potential winning run at the plate, Scapin was able to get a fly out to right and end the game, and record her first career save

Key Stats
•    Lively walked twice, stole a pair of bases and scored a run for the Jags in the win
•    Mambelli had a double, a pair of sacrifice flies and drove in a career-high three runs 
•    Dees – who scored twice – recorded her fourth multi-hit game of the spring with her 2-for-3 performance and reached base in three of her four plate appearances as she also had a walk
•    South Alabama was able to get the leadoff runner on base in four of its seven innings, while UNCW managed to do so just once

Postgame Notes
•    The meeting marked the just the second in the all-time series between the two programs
•    Lively extended her reached-base-safely streak to 20 games with her leadoff walk, moving into a tie for 12th-longest streak in program history with Tara Donaldson (2009)
•    Lively has now drawn a walk in each of her last five games, and six of her last seven
•    Lively has scored a run in six of her last eight games – 11 of her last 16, crossing the plate 15 times over that span 
•    Dees has had a hit in six of her last eight recorded at least one hit in 14 of her last 20 games this spring
•    Dees has also scored a run in five of her last eight, and nine of her last 14 outings
•    Bockhaus now has 15 career sacrifice hits, which ranks just three shy of moving the senior into the Top 10 of the program's career leaders in that category
•    Mambelli has had a hit in eight of her last 10, and driven in a run in seven of her last nine, recording ??11 RBI over that stretch
•    Branstetter has had a hit in nine of her last 12, and scored a run six of her last 10 – nine runs scored during that span

Up Next
•    South Alabama will return home to host Nicholls State on Tuesday with first pitch versus the Colonels set for 5 p.m. at Jaguar Field.

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