SAINT AUGUSTINE, Fla. – Following its thrilling 11-inning victory over Flager earlier in the afternoon, the Valdosta State softball team continued its momentum with a 5-4 win over No. 20 Saint Leo in the second game of the Old Coast Classic Friday. 

The Blazers improved to 3-5 on the year, while Saint Leo fell to 5-2-1.  VSU scored three runs in the bottom of the first and added two more in the fourth for a 5-2 lead.  The Lions plated two in the fifth, but Blazer junior reliever Toree Wofford shut the door over the final 2.1 innings, allowing no hits and walking one for her first save of the season.  Junior starter Madison VanAllen went 4.1 innings, allowing four hits, four runs – three earned and walked four as she improved to 1-1 on the year.
 
Offensively, the Blazers scored five runs on six hits and had one error, while SLU had four runs on four hits and one error.  Six different Blazers had hits in the game with doubles from juniors Alyssa Vallad and Caitlyn Cooke.  Vallad finished 1 for 3 with a run scored and an RBI, while Cooke was 1 for 3 with one RBI. 
 
Senior Charlotte Phillips who was plunked by a pitch in the first stole second and advanced to third on the throw as senior Saylor McNearney scored for a 1-0 lead in the first.  Vallad doubled to left center, plating Phillips for a 2-0 lead and junior Jayme Prandine laced an RBI single up the middle for a 3-0 lead. 
 
The Lions scratched across a run in the top of the second on a Hailey Beuer RBI double as VanAllen got out of the inning without further damage.  Saint Leo then trimmed the deficit to one at 3-2 in the third with a sacrifice fly from Izzy LaRoche, but the Blazers benefited from a throwing error in the fourth on a strikeout as senior Evie Pitts crossed the plate on the miscue for a 4-2 advantage. 
 
Saint Leo would once again pull within one in the fifth on a home run from Sydney Cline on a 3-2 count with two out for a 5-4 score, but Wofford came in and retired LaRoche to get out of the jam.  Wofford would walk the lead off hitter in the sixth, but the Lions had a base running mistake as Beuer flied out and the runner at first left early to end the inning.  Wofford then returned SLU in order in the seventh for the win. 
 
VSU snapped a three-game skid against SLU as the two teams will play again tomorrow to conclude the tournament with first pitch set for 3 p.m.  First tomorrow, the Blazers will face Chowan who went 1-1 on Friday defeating Flagler and losing to Saint Leo as VSU is the only 2-0 team remaining. 
 
Check back with vstateblazers.com for complete results and recaps of tomorrow's games.