Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 SAVANNAH, Ga. – A two-out, three-run home run in the bottom of the seventh gave Savannah State a 3-2 win, but the Norfolk State softball team bounced back to defeat the Tigers in Game 2 of a doubleheader, 4-3, Wednesday afternoon at Tiger Field.

Jessica Weiserskirk homered with two outs and runners on the corners to give the Tigers a 3-2 walk-off win in the first game, spoiling what had been a gem of a pitching effort by sophomore starter Jamie Schulle. She and her teammates got revenge in the second game, though, scoring a pair of runs in the third and fifth innings before holding off the Tigers in the 4-3 victory.

Schulle picked up the save in Game 2 for NSU (3-5), pitching a scoreless frame after freshman starter Liz Riley went six innings and gave up two earned runs on five hits. Riley secured the first win of her collegiate career in her most solid outing so far in 2012.

Junior second baseman Gipsy Ramirez had a solid day, tallying a pair of hits in each game, including a run-scoring double in the second game to give the Spartans an early 2-0 lead. Ramirez plated freshman Haley Ward with that hit after Ward had doubled in the previous at bat to put NSU on the board first. Ward finished the day a combined 3-for-8 from the plate in the twinbill.

Savannah State (7-10) cut the deficit to one, 2-1, in the bottom of the fourth before NSU struck back with a pair of runs in the top of the fifth. Freshman Whittni Gray and sophomore Morgan Boyd reached on a pair of errors, the latter bringing Gray home all the way from first. With Boyd on third after the play, senior Danielle Wright's RBI groundout pushed the Spartan advantage to 4-1.

The Tigers did not go without a fight, as Amber Hallman smacked a two-run home run down the left field line in the bottom half of the fifth to again cut the NSU lead to one, 4-3. Riley got out of a jam in the bottom of the sixth, stranding runners on the corners before giving way to Schulle in the seventh. The left-hander retired the Tigers in order for her first collegiate save.

In the first game, neither team could push a run across the plate until the Spartans scored their only two runs in the top of the fifth. Boyd singled with one out, stole second, and then came around to score when Wright lined a pitch to center. Wright moved up to third base one out later and touched home when freshman Alina Moriarty singled to right field.

Savannah State managed to get just five base runners on in the first six innings before a single and a walk put two runners on with no outs in the seventh. Schulle got the next two batters to pop up and hit into a fielder's choice before Weiserskirk's game-winning dinger.

Schulle (2-2) gave up all three earned runs on four hits with four strikeouts in 6.2 innings of work in Game 1. Hedderly (6-5) gave up two earned runs on six hits with four strikeouts in all seven innings. She also suffered the loss in the nightcap, allowing four runs, two earned, on five hits with eight strikeouts in seven innings.

NSU will head up the road to Orangeburg, S.C., to face South Carolina State for a doubleheader at 2 p.m. on Thursday.