PHILADELPHIA, PA – The Lincoln University softball team dropped two games to the University of Sciences Sunday.
GAME ONE: USCIENCES 18, LINCOLN 0
Four different players managed a hit for the Lions as they fell to USciences.
The Devils scored in all four at-bats, including a nine-run fourth, to secure the victory.
Freshman
Irlynn Richardson (Pittsburgh, Pa./Penn Hills) had the lone extra-base hit, a double, which gave her a hit in six of the last seven games. Freshmen
MacKienzee Rasheed (Cincinnati, Ohio/Walnut Hills), Jarae Turner, and
Sydney Davis (Harrisburg, Pa./Sci-Tech High School) all had singles in the game. It was the first career knock for Davis.
Junior
Amaya Townsend (Port Jervis, N.Y./Port Jervis), 0-3, allowed seven runs – two earned – on eight hits over two innings.
GAME TWO: USCIENCES 12, LINCOLN 5
Freshman
Cailyn Dove (Annapolis, Md./Broadneck Senior) had a career-high three hits, and two other players recorded multi-hit games as Lincoln fell to the Devils, 12-5.
Lincoln raced out to a 4-0 lead after three innings.
Dove double home freshman
Tia Brown (Newark, N.Y./Newark) in the second inning. Lincoln added three more runs on an RBI by
Amaya Townsend (Port Jervis, N.Y./Port Jervis) and a two-RBI double by Brown.
USciences took the lead with seven runs in the fourth inning.
A one-out double by Dove brought Townsend home in the fifth to pull Lincoln to within 7-5, but USciences scored three in the fifth and two more in the sixth.
Dove was 3-for-3 with a double and two RBI, while Townsend was 2-for-4 with a double, two runs scored, and an RBI. Brown finished the day 2-for-4 with a double, run scored, and two RBI.
Brown (1-5) allowed 12 runs, 10 earned, on 13 hits with seven walks and a strikeout.
Lincoln begins Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association action Thursday in the CIAA Roundup. The Lions play conference favorite Claflin 12:30 p.m. Friday, and then plays Fayetteville 5:30 p.m. Friday.
