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SEVERN, Md., May 13, 2007 – Throughout the 2007 MEAC Softball Tournament, freshman shortstop Yahamma White has shown how much maturity she has made at the position since the start of the season. After running into some fielding trouble toward the end of the season, White had gone 32 straight fielding opportunities without making error in the tournament.

The streak was in jeopardy when she made a miscue on a Delaware State stolen base in the bottom of the seventh. As the tying run for the Hornets – Courtney Taylor -- tried to advance to third off of White’s mistake, White ran down the ball, tossed a perfect throw to third baseman Tangala Conover. Conover laid the tag on Taylor to end the game and secure a 5-4 win for N.C. A&T at Randazzo Softball Park.

The win advanced the Aggies to the championship round of the tournament where they will play Howard Saturday at 12:30 p.m. The Aggies must be Howard twice in order to capture their first-ever MEAC title. The Conover tags out Delaware State's Courtney Taylor to end the game.
Aggies improved to 29-29. Delaware State’s season ends at 24-29.

N.C. A&T trailed 3-2 going into bottom of the sixth. An error by Delaware State first baseman Jacinda Poni allowed Lillian Bullock to reach safely. Hornets pitcher Megan Lambertz then walked Tabitha Veney to put runners on first and second. The Hornets then turned to relief pitcher Brittany Ruark to slow down the Aggies rally. Adia followed with a groundball to first base. Poni threw the ball away, allowing Dial to reach second base and Bullock to tie the game at 3.

Sylvia Felder stepped up and flew out to deep center field for a sacrifice fly that scored Veney from third to give the Aggies the lead at 4-3. After Britney Reddick flew out to left field, Chaola Simmons kept the inning going by singling to center field, moving pinch-runner Channing Statham to third base.

An insurance run was added for the Aggies when White earned an infield single. As Hornets second baseman Nicole Demers tried to throw out the speedy White, she threw the ball wide left of first base as Statham came home to give Aggies starter Sasha Philpot a two-run lead to work with going into the top of the seventh.                                                    
                                                                                                                 Conover celebrates afterward.

But Philpot would open the inning by hitting pinch-hitter Courtney Sams with a pitch, allowing her to reach first. Aggies lead to 8-5. Philpot got Lambertz to ground out to second for the fist out of the inning. The grounder advanced pinch-runner Ashley Fisher to second. Catrina Shockley moved the Aggies one step closer to the championship with a slow groundball back to the Philpot for out No. 2.

The Hornets would not make it that easy, however. Catrina Ansbach singled to center field, allowing Fisher to score to put the Hornets down by one run. With Sha Tabor at the plate, Taylor, who was pinch-running for Ansbach attempted to steal second. White, who was covering at second, fumbled away Veney’s throw down to second base. Tabor alertly headed toward third, where White made her impressive throw down to third to throw out Taylor and send the Aggies into celebration.

Philpot earned the win by giving up just one earned run on eight hits. Philpot improved to 17-10 and broke Latronda Anderson’s school record for pitching wins in a season, which stood at 16. Simmons and White had two hits apiece and Reddick recorded two RBI.