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Box Score 2 BUIES CREEK, N.C. – The Norfolk State softball team remained winless on the weekend as the Spartans dropped two more games Saturday during the second day of the Camel Stampede Invitational at Campbell's Amanda Littlejohn Stadium.
After Northern Kentucky used a pair of home runs, including an inside-the-park shot, to defeat NSU 4-1, Morehead State scored 10 runs in the third inning for an 11-1 victory in the last game of the tournament. The Spartans saw their record drop to 4-12 this year.
A solo home run in the bottom of the second put Northern Kentucky (6-12) on the board first in an early afternoon game. The Norse added two more in the fourth on an inside-the-park home run by Michelle Carson for a 3-0 lead. An infield error on Northern Kentucky in the top of the fifth gave NSU its only run of the game.
Freshman
Heather Dunning had two hits in the game and three on the day and is now 9-for-17 in her last six games.
Liz Riley (0-3) suffered the loss, allowing four earned runs on four hits in six innings of work. Emily Schwaeble (1-6) picked up the win for Northern Kentucky after striking out eight and giving up just one unearned run on five hits in all seven innings.
Tied at 1-1 heading into the bottom of the third after sophomore
Robyn Mitchell hit a sacrifice fly, Morehead State (7-5) plated 10 runs in the bottom half of the fourth. Riddle and Etter each hit two-run doubles in the frame, and Ashbrook's two-run homer finished out the scoring.
Sophomore
Alina Moriarty had two of NSU's four hits in the game.
The Spartans will head to North Carolina A&T for a doubleheader on Wednesday beginning at 2 p.m.