EMORY, Va. – The Lincoln University softball team showed some offensive improvements, but still dropped a pair of non-conference games to Emory & Henry Sunday.
GAME ONE: Emory & Henry 11, Lincoln 0
A pair of errors led to nine runs in the second inning as the Wasps took the early lead. The faithful second frame began with two errors and E&H capitalized with a sacrifice fly, single, walk, home run, and double. Back-to-back home runs capped the scoring.
Emory & Henry added a pair of runs in the fourth inning.
Freshman
Cate Liskey (Richland, Pa./Eastern Lebanon ), 0-2, took the tough loss - surrendering nine unearned runs on six hits in 1 2/3 innings.
GAME TWO: Emory & Henry 7, Lincoln 5
Freshman
MacKienzee Rasheed (Cincinnati, Ohio/Walnut Hills) recorded her second multi-hit game of the season and drove in a career-high three runs as the Lions put together their best game of the weekend.
After falling behind 3-0 through two innings, freshman
Irlynn Richardson (Pittsburgh, Pa./Penn Hills) reached on a two-out error, stole second, advanced to third on a wild pitch, and then scored on a Rasheed single.
Freshman
Kevyn Jones (Baltimore, Md./Paul Laurence Dunbar) recorded a first RBI of the season with a single that scored freshman
Tia Brown (Newark, N.Y./Newark) from second. Richardson picked up her first career RBI, scoring Liskey. On the very next pitch, Rasheed lined a two-RBI single that scored Richardson and Jones.
Brown hurled four scoreless innings in relief, yielding just three hits with three strikeouts and five walks. Junior
Amaya Townsend (Port Jervis, N.Y./Port Jervis), 0-1, in her first start of the season, allowed seven runs – four earned – on three hits in two innings of action.
Lincoln (0-4) travels to face Mars Hill 1 p.m. Monday in a non-conference doubleheader. The games were moved from Wednesday due to impending weather in North Carolina.
