GREENSBORO, N.C. – Senior Casey Hargett hit a go-ahead home run in the fourth and the North Carolina Central University softball team kept the one-run lead until host North Carolina A&T State University scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh for a 4-3 walk-off win to begin a crucial Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) series opener Friday afternoon.

The Aggies had five consecutive batters reach base with one-out in the seventh, capped by a bases-loaded, game-winning single by sophomore Raven Gray.

The Maroon and Gray outhit NCAT, 8-7, with Hargett and senior Markell Wylie accounting for half of those base knocks with two hits apiece.

Senior London Booker was given the ball in the circle and she was closing in on her third win in her last four starts before NCAT made its improbable comeback. Booker held the Aggies to just three hits over the first six innings before the hosts came up with four base hits in its last at bats.

The Aggies loaded the bases on three consecutive singles by pinch hitter Mohagony Headen, Lauren Dunlow and Zadia Davis. The equalized was driven in on an RBI fielder’s choice play by Alejandra Barcenas, setting up the game-winning single through the right-side of the infield by Gray that scored Dunlow to end the contest.

Booker (4-16) took the loss and counterpart Janika May (5-10) went the distance for NCAT.

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