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Softball Beats Liberty, 11-6
March 31, 2026 | Softball
LYNCHBURG, VA - Carolina softball beat Liberty 11-6, improving to 4-1 on the road on the season. Tonight's victory was the fourth win in the last six match ups against Liberty and the second consecutive win over Liberty in Lynchburg. Softball now has 25 wins on the season, clinching a winning record each season under head coach Megan Smith Lyon.
The scoring began when Shelby Barbee launched her 13th home run of the season, a towering blast to left field that brought home three runs in the first inning. Building on this momentum, Carolina added another run in the second inning as Sanaa Thompson punched a double to center field, making the lead 4-0.
Liberty added two in the bottom half of the second inning. Carolina responded with a sacrifice fly to right field by MC Eaton, driving in Emily LeGette to open the third inning. Right after the sac fly, Raegan Jennings drove in Barbee to bring the lead back to four.
Rayna Blackwell kept the offense going in the fifth inning as she brought home Sahara Wilson with a double, giving Carolina its seventh run of the evening. For the second time in the game, the Tar Heels hit another home run, as Thompson made the lead 9-2 with the shot to right center. Carolina has now had 22 games with multiple home runs.Â
Blackwell delivers the third home run of the game to left, ballooning the lead to 11-2.
Liberty closed out the game with four runs in the seventh on two two-run home runs.
Carly Maxton delivered in the pitching circle as she moved to 7-3 on the season, highlighted by the bases-loaded jam in the fifth that she navigated without surrendering a run.
ÂINSIDE THE BOX SCORE: UNC, 11Â Liberty, 6Â
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Sanaa Thompson extended her on base streak to 19 games in the first inning
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Lexie Roberts extended her on base to 16 games
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Sanaa Thompson is now 3 runs away from breaking the single-season program record
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Emily LeGette extended her on base streak to seven games
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Carly Maxton escaped a bases-loaded, one out jam to escape the fifth inning spotless
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Kendall Frost escaped a bases-loaded jam in the sixth
