Columbus, Georgia-There will be a new champion of the SIAC this season as East Division #2 seed and defending champion Edward Waters saw their season come to an end on Tuesday afternoon, falling 6-1 to West Division #1 seed Spring Hill in an Elimination Game at the 2024 Cricket SIAC Softball Championship.

The Lady Tigers (38-17, 18-6 SIAC) had to climb an uphill battle throughout a majority of the contest as Spring Hill (27-19, 22-0 SIAC) plated the first five runs of the contest. Edward Waters finally got on the scoreboard in the bottom of the sixth thanks to Laura Scott's RBI single that cut the deficit to four, but that would be as close as the Lady Tigers would get. The Badgers plated one more run in the top of the seventh, and Edward Waters could not respond, ending the squad's run at the tournament and the 2024 campaign.

Edward Waters had nine hits as a team in the contest, but could not cash in with runs coming home as the Lady Tigers stranded 11 runners on the basepaths. Laura Scott led Edward Waters at the plate, going 3-for-4 with an RBI in the contest.  The loss was charged to Gracie Mejia, who went 2.2 innings, scattered three hits, had two earned runs, walked one, and struck out one.

With the loss, eight key members of the program in Jodasea Peterson, Caitlynne Lamug, Jazmine Lamug, Gracie Mejia, Katie Goodin, Milani Sablan, Jade Mention, and Kayla Saunders, played their final collegiate contests of their career. This class will go down as the most successful class in the history of the program. Since coming to Edward Waters, this class finished with a 134-47 overall record, had 4 Straight Winning Seasons, won 2 HBCU National Championships (2022-2023), 1 SIAC Conference Championship (2023), 1 SIAC Eastern Division Title (2023), 1 SIAC Eastern Division runner-up (2024), MVP of SIAC Conference Championship Tournament (Jodasea Peterson, 2023), had multiple Continental Athletic Conference (NAIA) & SIAC All-Conference Award recipients, multiple CAC & SIAC All-Tournament Team Awards, had the most wins in a season by any EWU team in school history (43-2023), most strikeouts pitched in a season (125), and had the first pitcher in program history to have back to back 20 wins seasons (Jodasea Peterson-2023, 2024).

Head Coach Mike Ellison recently signed 10 players to the squad for next season and will look to once again lead the squad to the mountaintop as well as their first trip to the NCAA Divison II National Tournament in 2025.

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