DUNCAN, S.C. – The UNC Pembroke softball team used a seventh-inning, walk-off single to knock off Converse 1-0 in Sunday's first game at the Mid-South Classic in Duncan and scored in five of seven at-bats to best Barton for the second-straight day by a 6-2 score in game two.

The Braves (12-6), who have now won seven-straight games and 10 of their last 11, have held opponents to three runs or less in the last five outings, including Sunday's shutout of Converse. UNCP improves to 8-0 at the Mid-South Classic in the last two season.

The Valkyries (0-16) have been held without a run in their last 24 innings and shutout nine times in 16 games. Barton (5-9) dropped all four games at the Mid-South Classic and did not score more than three runs in a game.

Four Braves recorded a single hit in the opener against Converse, but none more important than Bailey Hoch's walk-off single in the seventh. With runners on first and second and two outs, Hoch dropped in a single in left field to send pinch runner Mary Sells across the plate with the game-winning run. Alex Watkins, Tatum Brummitt and Lexie Coxe each had a single base knock in the victory.

Making her first start since Feb. 3, sophomore Raygan Larson (2-3) went the distance in the circle to pick up her second complete game of the season. Larson allowed just two hits, both singles, and struck out a career-high seven batters.

Coxe and Jamie Johnson each went 2-for-4 at the dish in the rematch against Barton and Johnson paced the Braves with a pair of RBIs and a stolen base. Watkins, Hoch, Toni Nelson and Haleigh Epperson also got in on the action with a base hit.

For the second-straight day, righty Malerie Leviner (4-2) logged a complete-game victory in the circle, this time on 118 pitches. The sophomore worked around nine hits and matched a career high with six strikeouts.

A perfectly executed squeeze play from Taylor Gerhart plated the game's first run in the top of the first inning. Barton answered back with a run in the latter half of the first, but single UNCP runs in the third and fifth put the Black & Gold up 3-1. Watkins singled home Gerhart in the third and Epperson scampered home on a passed ball in the fifth.

After Barton pulled within one with a run in the fifth, Johnson ripped a two-run single in the sixth and Nelson singled home a run in the seventh to extend the advantage to 6-2.

The Braves are back in action Saturday when they make their first ever trip to Elizabeth City State in northeastern North Carolina. First pitch of the doubleheader is set for 2 p.m. at the ECSU Softball Field. UNCP swept the Vikings by a combined score of 43-0 in the twinbill in Pembroke last season.