RALEIGH, NC – The Lincoln University softball team opened Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association action with a pair of losses Friday at the Walnut Creek softball complex.

GAME ONE: CLAFLIN 11, LINCOLN 1
Freshman Jarae Turner extended her hitting streak to seven games as she accounted for half of Lincoln's hits and its lone RBI.

Turner capped three consecutive one-out singles in the third inning to score freshman Irlynn Richardson (Pittsburgh, Pa./Penn Hills), who started the run-scoring rally with a single. Freshman MacKienzee Rasheed (Cincinnati, Ohio/Walnut Hills) recorded the only other hit in the game.

Claflin scored single runs in the first and third innings with four runs in the second inning and five in the fourth inning.

Cate Liskey (Richland, Pa./Eastern Lebanon ), 0-7, allowed five runs – four earned – on six hits in 1 2/3 innings.

GAME TWO: FAYETTEVILLE STATE 14, LINCOLN 4
Fayetteville State scored 12 of its 14 runs over the last three innings of the game to turn a 3-1 deficit into a 14-4 victory.

Lincoln got the scoring going with a leadoff double by Richardson, who came around to score on a groundout by Rasheed.

After the Broncos took the lead with a pair of runs in the second, but Liskey knotted the game with an RBI single in the second and junior Amaya Townsend (Port Jervis, N.Y./Port Jervis) gave Lincoln the lead with an RBI single in the third.  

Townsend led the way, going 3-for-3 with an RBI and run scored, while Liskey and Richardson had the two other hits.

Lincoln returns to action 12:30 p.m. Saturday against St. Augustine's and then plays Livingston 5:30 p.m.