The No. 18-ranked Georgia softball (28-9, 4-1 SEC) team gathered itself following a frightening and emotional scene at the start of the nightcap to take both games of a doubleheader against Campbell (18-20-1) Wednesday afternoon.

Campbell pitcher Kelly Weaver was hit in the face and knocked to the ground by a Melissa Wood line drive in the bottom of the second inning of game two.

Medical personnel put a neck brace on Weaver and took her off the field on a stretcher to St. Mary’s Hospital.

The injury sustained was not as serious as initially feared, Campbell coach Drew Peterson said.

“She cut her eyelid open. She knew where she was and she was moving her extremities,” Peterson said.

As Weaver was being attended to, both teams came out of their dugouts to form a circle, arm-in-arm, at second base.

“(Campbell) was huddling at second base, so we all just came out there and prayed for her,” said Georgia first baseman Megan McAllister.

Wood is friends with Weaver from their summer league softball days in high school.

That familiarity may have helped Wood get around on the pitch so quickly and drive it so hard, she said.

Georgia rebounded from the stoppage of play to score the decisive run on a sacrifice fly by McAllister in the third inning and win 2-1.

The incident overshadowed a pair of outstanding performances by Georgia starters Christie Hamilton and Kate Gaskill.

Hamilton tossed a five-hit shut-out in the Bulldogs 2-0 win in game one.

And though her friend appears to need no more than stitches to recover from the blow, the scare put things into perspective.

“We all said (in the huddle at second base), ‘it’s just a game,’” Wood said.