Samantha Posey (center) and the top-ranked Valdosta State Blazers host North Alabama today at 1 p.m. and Alabama-Huntsville at 2 p.m. on Saturday.

Attention to the rest of the nation, the Valdosta State softball team is on a roll.

The Blazers won their 15th straight game, and improved to 21-2, Wednesday, beating the West Georgia Wolves 13-0 and 2-1 in a doubleheader at the VSU softball complex.

“We just have the best defense in the country…Our defense is phenomenal, our pitching is phenomenal, and we can hit the ball,” Valdosta State head coach Thomas Macera said. “We are not going to beat everybody 13-0, we know that, but we aren’t getting shutout. As long as we put runs up onto the scoreboard and play defense, and our pitchers keep us close, we should win some games.”

After crushing the Wolves in game one, the Blazers secured a hard-fought game two victory, using just enough offense mixed with stellar defense and effective pitching to finish off the sweep.

Pitcher Alanna Hadley earned the victory in game one, while earning the save in game two. She leads the VSU pitching staff with 10 wins with an earned run average below one.

“(Alanna) is lights out,” Macera said. “Right now, she is pitching phenomenally.”

Led by Samantha Posey, who was 2 of 5 with four runs batted in and three runs scored, hitting two home runs in game one, the Blazers totaled 19 hits on the day. Morgan Johnson was 3 of 6 with two runs scored, going 3 of 4 in game one. Catcher Ashley Steinhilber was 2 of 4 with three runs scored and two runs batted in.

Game one: Blazers 13, Wolves 0

The Blazers jumped out to a 6-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning, using runs scored by the first six batters in the lineup. Marti Littlefield,Steinhilber and April Hutchens drove in two runs each in the opening inning.

“We hit, we know we can hit,” Macera said. “In the first game, we were hitting the ball real well. We were hitting good line drives, and everybody was hitting the ball. We executed well, and we ran the bases well. It was a great first game.”

In the second inning, Posey jacked the first of her two homers, giving VSU a 7-0 lead on the first pitch of the inning. Clare Wamsley then drove in April Collins, who pitch ran for Littlefield, and Hutchens drove in Steinhilber, who reached on a fielder’s choice.

In the third inning, VSU tallied four more runs, using a Johnson single to leadoff the inning. The very next at-bat, Posey blasted a home run over the left field fence, making the score 11-0.

“I have nothing to lose, honestly,” Posey said. “I was out in the fall and I was out in the beginning of this year, and it is my senior year. What do I have to lose? Just go swing without thinking about it, really.”

Steinhilber later crossed home plate, after reaching on a hit-by-pitch, while Fran Johnson scored in the inning to close out the game one scoring.

In the game, seven of VSU’s nine batters scored, while five different players drove in runs.

In the circle, Hadley, the Dacula native, was stellar, pitching all five innings, giving up two hits and striking out six batters in the process. She struck out the side in the top of the fourth inning.

Game two: Blazers 2, Wolves 1

After dominating game one, VSU slid by the Wolves in game two. The Blazers’ runs came in the second and third innings.

Littlefield scored in the second inning on a Fran Johnson single. Littlefield reached base on a single to start the inning. Then, in the third inning, Courtney Albritton led the inning off with a double — her second of the game — and moved to second base on a sacrifice bunt from Morgan Johnson. She scored on a sacrifice fly from Posey, making the score 2-0.

“I don’ think we backed off, but I don’t think we gave it our best,” Macera said. “I just think, when you are playing a team like (West Georgia) and you beat them so bad in the first game, and you play so well, I just think you kind of back off a little bit. I don’t think we managed our at-bats, I think is a good way to put it. We just have to do a better job at managing our bats.”

The score remained 2-0 until the top of the sixth inning, when West Georgia’s Nicole Yancey hit a home run to left centerfield off VSU pitcher Courtney Gunby. Gunby record the final out of the inning, but was replaced in the seventh inning by Hadley, who retired the Wolves in 1-2-3 fashion.

Gunby finished game two after six innings of work, allowing one run on three hits. She struck out four batters and walked just one. Her toughest inning came in the fourth, when she allowed a single and a walk to start the inning.

After a sacrifice, West Georgia had runners in scoring position with just out, which called for a timeout and a meeting in the circle.

Gunby then recorded a strikeout and a ground ball to third base to get out of the inning.

Valdosta State returns to action Saturday, when the Blazers visit Alabama-Huntsville. UAH beat the Blazers twice in the 2011 South Region Tournament, ending VSU’s season in the process. Huntsville has appeared in the National Championship game twice in the past three years.

“We are not looking at what happened last year,” Macera said. “Everyone knows what happened last year. Our saying is ‘eyes forward’ and what is front of us. We know how good we are now, and what is still in front of us and we know that is am that we are going to have to go through.”