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Kylee Lopez
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Winner Robert Morris RMU 1-2
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Norfolk State NSU 1-2
Winner
Robert Morris RMU
1-2
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Final
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Norfolk State NSU
1-2
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Robert Morris RMU 1 1 2 0 5 2 0 11 10 0
Norfolk State NSU 2 1 2 0 0 3 0 8 13 4

W: RIGGLE, Madison (1-0) L: Halford, Hunter (0-2) S: GASVODA, Katie (1)

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Norfolk State NSU 1-3
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Winner Longwood LWU 5-2
Norfolk State NSU
1-3
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Final
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Longwood LWU
5-2
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Norfolk State NSU 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 4 3
Longwood LWU 1 1 0 0 1 3 X 6 10 2

W: BACKSTROM, Sydney (3-1) L: Swain, Skylar (1-1) S: WOOD, Arleigh (2)

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Norfolk State NSU 1-4
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Winner Delaware State DSUSB 1-1
Norfolk State NSU
1-4
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Final
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Delaware State DSUSB
1-1
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Norfolk State NSU 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 10 5
Delaware State DSUSB 0 0 1 1 1 1 X 4 7 0

W: BAKER,Brianna (1-1) L: Halford, Hunter (0-3) S: DIAO,Tiffany (1)

Game Recap: Softball | | Mike Bello, Asst. SID

Spartans Unable to Come Out on Top Friday at Lancer Launch

FARMVILLE, Va. – The Norfolk State softball team dropped all three of its games on Friday during the weather-shortened Lancer Launch, succumbing to Robert Morris, host Longwood and Delaware State at Lancer Field.
 
In the first game of the day, Robert Morris pulled ahead in the latter stages of the game to win 11-8. The Spartans then scored several runs late but could not overcome an early deficit to Longwood in a 6-4 setback. In the last game of the day, Delaware State benefitted from several Spartan miscues in a 4-3 victory.
 
The tournament, rescheduled for Thursday and Friday due to inclement weather forecast for the weekend, saw the Spartans (1-4) commit a combined 12 errors over the course of three games. They piled up 13 hits against RMU and 10 in the contest against DSU, and the Spartans scored late in each game before coming up short.
 
Junior Shelby DesChamps had five hits during the three games, and senior Kylee Lopez added four hits with three RBI. Freshman Gabby Vaughan drove in four runs over the course of the day as well.
 
In the first game on Friday, Robert Morris (1-2) scored five runs in the fifth to open up a big lead. That came after the teams went back and forth during the first three innings of the morning contest.
 
The Colonials tallied a run in the first, but NSU answered with two of its own. DesChamps singled and later scored on an RBI single by Lopez, and a little later with the bases loaded, sophomore Jade Dixon drew a walk to make it a 2-1 ballgame.
 
Thanks to a couple of errors on NSU, Robert Morris tied it up in the second, only for NSU to go back ahead after sophomore Jazzmaine Hammond tripled and scored on another RBI single by Lopez. The Colonials plated two runs in the third on Madison Shiderly's home run, but NSU also scored twice in the third for a 5-4 lead.
 
Vaughan's RBI double scored senior Hunter Halford, who walked to start the inning. Freshman Denisha Megginson later singled in Vaughan, but NSU stranded two in the inning, six over the first three frames and nine for the game.
 
Abrielle McCartney's two-run single highlighted the five-run fifth for the Colonials, and they added two more in the sixth on Kaitlyn Clark's homer for an 11-5 lead. The Spartans added three runs in the bottom of the frame, including RBI doubles by Lopez and sophomore Tuli Iosefa. Vaughan's RBI groundout capped the game's scoring.
 
Lopez finished 3-for-4 with two runs and three RBI. Vaughan had a pair of RBI, and DesChamps and Dixon each had a pair of hits as part of the 13-hit barrage.
 
Vaughan also had a pair of hits and two RBI in the contest against Longwood immediately afterwards. All four of NSU's runs came in the top of the seventh with the Spartans down by six. Two errors on the Lancers allowed NSU to score the first run and load the bases with two outs. Halford got hit by a pitch to plate a second run, and Vaughan's two-run single made it 6-4 for the final margin.
 
Longwood (5-2) scored single runs in the first, second and fifth innings for a 3-0 run. The Lancers then added three more runs in the sixth, including two on Jessica Smith's single to right.
 
Sophomore Skylar Swain (1-1) allowed eight hits and three runs, two earned, in five innings of work. Sydney Backstrom (3-1) picked up the win in relief after striking out five in 3.1 innings of relief.
 
Delaware State (1-1) scored three of its four runs thanks to errors on the Spartans. Single runs in the third, fourth and fifth innings were all unearned. The Hornets led 3-1 after five innings following Dixon's RBI single in the top of the fifth.
 
NSU scored in the top of the sixth on Iosefa's solo homer, but DSU got an RBI single in the bottom of the sixth for a 4-2 advantage. Halford drove in DesChamps with an RBI single in the seventh to cut the deficit to one, but the Spartans could not push across the tying run.
 
DesChamps and Iosefa each had two hits against the Hornets. Halford (0-3) gave up three unearned runs on four hits with four strikeouts in five innings of work. Brianna Baker (1-1) allowed six hits and just one run in five innings for DSU.
 
Norfolk State will host four different opponents next weekend as part of its half of the Spartan/Pirate Classic, beginning with Central Connecticut State on Friday at the NSU Softball Field.
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