For immediate release – 3/14/2015 – #319
LC Softball Takes First Game at SU Tourney, Second Game Suspended

SALISBURY, MD – The Lynchburg College softball team won its first game of the day Saturday at the Salisbury University Tournament before the second was suspended due to rain.

Lynchburg scored a 9-1 win over Rutgers-Camden in the opener. The Hornets scored single runs in the first, second and fourth innings to stake a 3-1 lead, and blew the game open with four in the fifth. Kirsten Copley ended the contest with a two-run pinch-hit home run in the bottom of the sixth.  

Amber Sulter went 3-3 while Amber Ingram was 2-2 with a walk. Jessi Hall scored four runs and Logan Walker reached base three times. Conner English earned the win out of the bullpen, tossing 3 2/3 innings of scoreless relief with four strikeouts.

Rutgers-Camden falls to 1-2.

Lynchburg (10-3) fought back from a 2-0 deficit in the second game of the day against Ursinus, posting three runs in the second inning to take the lead. Walker singled home Ingram before Sulter drove in a pair on a single up the middle for a 3-2 LC edge.

Ursinus tied the game up in the bottom of the second before Lynchburg took the lead for good in the fourth inning as Kayla St. John doubled home a pair in front of a Danielle Powell RBI single to put Lynchburg ahead 6-3.

Hope Johnson pitched 1 1/3 innings out of the bullpen to hold Ursinus at bay and allow the Hornets to capitalize at the plate.

Sulter ended the day 4-6 at the plate while Hall scored five runs for LC.

Play was halted in the bottom of the fifth inning, three outs shy of being an official game, with Lynchburg leading 6-5. The rain only picked up from there, making it impossible to restart the game.

Stay tuned to the Lynchburg athletics website for details on if, and when, the suspended game will be resumed.

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