Box Score NORFOLK, Va. – Delaware pounded out 10 hits but five errors on the Spartans and a couple more mental mistakes also contributed to a 10-2 loss in six innings for the Norfolk State softball team Friday afternoon at the NSU Softball Field.

Only five of the 10 runs scored by the Blue Hens were earned, as miscues on the Spartans prolonged some innings and eventually dropped NSU to 2-4 on the season. Delaware improved to 7-2.

A double steal in the top of the first opened the scoring for Delaware, and the Blue Hens added two more later in the inning when Whitney Williams misplayed a hit to left field.

NSU added one in the bottom half of the frame. Sophomore Alina Moriarty hit a rocket past the second baseman and all the way to the outfield wall to open the inning for NSU. After a bunt single by junior Morgan Boyd, Williams lofted a sacrifice fly to deep right field to bring home Moriarty.

Tori Conrad made it 4-1 in the third when she took an upstairs 1-2 fastball and deposited it over the center field fence. Boyd, though, walked to open the bottom of the third and eventually got to third. Junior Melina Valles hit one back up the middle to make it 4-2, but Delaware starter Amanda Stacevicz got junior Nikki Jones to strike out with the bases loaded a few batters later to end the threat.

The Blue Hens added three in the fourth on a single by Jessica Grisler, a double from Lara Andrews and another RBI single off the bat of Michelle McKinnon. Two more errors on NSU brought another run home in the fifth, and Delaware pushed its advantage to the eight-run rule in the sixth when two more crossed the plate.

Stacevicz (2-0) picked up the win for Delaware, giving up two earned runs on six hits with six strikeouts in all six innings.

Junior Jamie Schulle (2-3) suffered the loss, allowing seven runs, three earned, on six hits with six strikeouts in 3.2 innings.

NSU will return to the field Saturday and Sunday for the Spartan Classic. Play gets underway at 9 a.m. each day with Marist, Army and Delaware all set to compete. NSU plays at 1 and 3 p.m. on Saturday.