BAINBRIDGE – Allowing just one run throughout the game, the Bainbridge-Guilford Bobcats bats and pitching dominated during the MAC semifinal game against Harpursville, winning 8-1. B-G now moves into the MAC Championship game against Deposit on Tuesday.

Bainbridge-Guilford scored three runs in the the second and third to make it 6-0. The home team added one run in the fourth and another in the fifth.

The Bobcats’ Kori Thornton struck out 11 Harpursville batters while giving up four hits on 104 pitches thrown in the game. The one run the Hornets scored was not tallied against Thornton and considered unearned in the scorebook.

B-G’s Megan Palmatier had a big day at the plate as she went 3-for-4 with a home run. Palmatier’s home run came in the bottom of the third on a 1-0 count when she sent a deep shot to center field.

Earlier in the content, teammate Ashley Matthews sent a long ball to left field on 2-0 count, scoring Bainbridge-Guilford’s Bailey Hart and rounded the bases herself for the first home run of the contest for the home team.

Matthews finished the day perfect, going 3-for-3 in her at-bats and picked up three RBIs.