Forehand named PBC Player of the Week
Business February 16, 2022PRESS RELEASE
Hannah Forehand
AUGUSTA, Ga. – University of North Georgia softball player Hannah Forehand was named the Peach Belt Conference’s Player of the Week, the conference office announced Tuesday.
Forehand hit .588 with a 1.294 slugging percentage as the No. 5 Nighthawks went 6-0 over the weekend. The sophomore second baseman had four home runs with 10 RBI and scored eight runs. She went 3-for-3 in the second game against No. 22 Texas A&M Commerce with two home runs in the fourth inning alone, the second a three-run shot, driving in five. She had a homer and two more RBI in the opener against TAMU-Commerce and two more in the first game against Davis & Elkins with a home run. She also made no errors in 13 chances at second base and was 2-for-2 in stolen bases.
Forehand leads the PBC in home runs and is second in slugging percentage, fifth in runs scored, tied for seventh in RBI and is tied for the league lead in fielding percentage.
The Nighthawks will be back in action this weekend at Lander, taking on USC Beaufort and Chowan twice over the two day event.
No. 5 UNG sweeps Opening Day doubleheader
Press Release February 12, 2022
Hannah Forehand
DAHLONEGA – The No. 5 University of North Georgia softball team earned a pair of wins in the opening day of the Captain D’s Surf ‘n Turf Classic Friday at Haines & Carolyn Hill Stadium at Lynn Cottrell Park.
GAME 1 – #5 UNG 5, #22 TAMU-C 1
Texas A&M – Commerce got on the board first after loading the bases in the second and hitting a sacrifice fly, but the Nighthawks answered immediately with three in the bottom of the inning off a Madi Perry single, an Olivia Sinquefield sacrifice fly and a double steal that gave UNG a 3-1 lead.
All was quiet until the sixth inning when Hannah Forehand graced Cottrell Terrace with the first homer to left of the season at home, putting the Nighthawks up, 5-1.
Tybee Denton (3-0) earned the win, throwing a one-hitter and fanning eight along the way.
GAME 2 – #5 UNG 8, Davis& Elkins 1
North Georgia wasted little time getting on the scoreboard in the second game of the day, putting three on the board in the second off a Marley Holmes RBI single and good base running to take the early lead. After a double steal in the fifth extended the UNG lead to 4-0, Davis & Elkins got an RBI single in the bottom of the fifth to claw back to 4-1.
Forehand answered in the sixth with her second homer of the day, this one to left center to stretch the lead back to four before UNG blew the gates open in the seventh, plating three more on a Madison Simmons RBI double, a Mariah Wicker RBI triple and a Forehand RBI single.
Delaney Heaberlin (1-1) got the win, throwing six innings, striking out six.
NOTES
– Forehand finished the day going 4-for-5 with two home runs four runs scored and four RBI.
NEXT UP
North Georgia will play Davis & Elkins in the first game of the day tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. before battling TAMU-Commerce at 2 p.m. in the third game of the day.