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LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, Pa. – Pitching ruled the day for the Lincoln University softball team as the Lions won both games of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association Round-up Saturday at Walnut Creek.
GAME ONE: LINCOLN 5, SAINT AUGUSTINE'S 2
Freshman Tia Brown (Newark, N.Y./Newark), 2-6, allowed just four hits with six strikeouts as Lincoln won its first CIAA game of the season, beating Saint Augustine's 5-2 to snap a seven-game losing skid to the Falcons.
Seven of the nine starters tallied at least one hit as the Lions pounded out 14 hits with freshman Irlynn Richardson (Pittsburgh, Pa./Penn Hills) going 4-for-5 with a double and two runs scored. The first of those two runs came in the first inning after leading off with a double and scoring on a freshman Jarae Turner single.
Lincoln doubled its lead as freshman Aniyah Isaac (New Brunswick, N.J./New Brunswick) doubled and advanced to third, but was injured replaced by freshman Lakya'h Young (Bel Air, Md./Harford Technical). Freshman Caitlin Dove singled home Young to make it 2-0. A two-out single by freshman MacKienzee Rasheed (Cincinnati, Ohio/Walnut Hills) brought home freshman Jasmin Solis, who started the rally with a walk and advanced to second on a Richardson single.
Brown avoided the big inning in the fourth even though SAU loaded the bases with a double, single, and walk to open the frame. A two-run single pulled the Falcons to within one run, but Brown slammed the door with a popup and strikeout.
Once again Richardson was in the middle of a scoring rally, opening the sixth with a single, stole second, and moved to third on a groundout. Turner singled her home and eventually came around to score on a double by junior Amaya Townsend (Port Jervis, N.Y./Port Jervis).
From there Brown literally almost did it herself. For the final six outs, she had two strikeouts, two ground ball outs and a caught a pop. The only other out was a pop-up to short.
Townsend was 3-for-4 with two doubles and an RBI, while Turner and Brown also had a pair of hits.
GAME TWO: LINCOLN 13, LIVINGSTONE 3
Freshman Cate Liskey (Richland, Pa./Eastern Lebanon ) tied a school record with 12 strikeouts and drove in a career-high four RBI as Lincoln scored a season-high 13 runs with the 13-3 victory over Livingstone.
Liskey, 1-5, allowed three runs on just four hits with the aforementioned strikeouts and one walk in seven innings. It was her first complete game of the season.
The top three hitters – Richardson, Rasheed, and Turner – combined for nine hits, five runs scored, and eight RBI. Richardson was 3-for-4 with three runs scored, two stolen bases, and two RBI, Rasheed was 3-for-5 with a run scored and three RBI, and Turner was 3-for-6 with a run scored and three RBI.
After LC took the lead with a run in the bottom of the first inning, the Lions took the lead with a pair of runs in the second and three more in the third. Lincoln scored single runs in the fifth and sixth inning before putting the game away with six runs in the seventh.
Lincoln concludes the three-day, six-game CIAA event with a pair of games. The Lions play Johnson C. Smith 9 a.m. Sunday and wraps the event 11:30 a.m. against Winston-Salem State.
