AUSTIN (KXAN) — Reese Atwood announced her presence in the Athletes Unlimited Softball League in a big way Sunday.
Playing for the Carolina Blaze, Atwood crushed two home runs off former Texas Tech pitcher NiJaree Canady to help lift her team to a 9-1 win over the Texas Volts at Smith Family Stadium on the Duke University campus in Durham, North Carolina.
Atwood’s first homer, a towering 2-run blast way over the center field wall in the fourth inning, was the former Longhorns slugger’s first hit as a professional. She followed it with a line drive solo homer over the left field wall in the sixth to put the Blaze one run away from a mercy-rule victory. Devin Netz finished the job with an RBI single later in the frame to put the Volts away early.
Canady was making her professional debut for the Volts in a relief appearance…