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Kylee Lopez
Frank Selden
4
Winner Morgan State MSUSB 14-13
0
Norfolk State NSU 15-21
Winner
Morgan State MSUSB
14-13
4
Final
0
Norfolk State NSU
15-21
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Morgan State MSUSB 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 4 6 1
Norfolk State NSU 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4

W: BEGG,Amy (9-6) L: Halford, Hunter (4-9)

8
Winner Morgan State MSUSB 15-13
2
Norfolk State NSU 15-22
Winner
Morgan State MSUSB
15-13
8
Final
2
Norfolk State NSU
15-22
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Morgan State MSUSB 1 0 4 0 0 3 0 8 12 0
Norfolk State NSU 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 6 2

W: RUNDLETT,Stephanie (6-6) L: Porter, Kayla (4-4)

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

Morgan State Shuts Down NSU in Friday Twinbill

NORFOLK, Va. – Two Morgan State pitchers combined for 17 strikeouts over the course of two games in a doubleheader sweep of the Norfolk State softball team in MEAC action on Friday afternoon at the NSU Softball Field.
 
Amy Begg allowed just one Spartan hit in the first game, won by the Bears by a 4-0 score. In the second, Stephanie Rundlett struck out 10 on the way to an 8-2 win for Morgan State.
 
Junior Kylee Lopez hit her 10th home run of the season in the second game and batted 3-for-3 with two RBI. She became just the third player in school history to hit at least 10 home runs in a season.
 
But NSU ultimately fell to 5-6 in the MEAC as well as 15-22 overall. MSU improved to 6-2 in the league, 15-13 overall.
 
Begg (9-6) pitched a masterpiece in the first contest, allowing just an infield single from freshman Kayla Porter on the way to the complete game shutout with seven strikeouts.
 
Begg's teammates, meanwhile, scored a pair of runs in the first on a bloop single over the second baseman's head followed by a sac fly to center field. Three errors on NSU in the third allowed the Bears to go up 3-0, and they scored the final run of the game in the sixth on an RBI groundout.
 
Junior Hunter Halford (4-9) allowed five hits and four runs, just one earned, in six innings of work for the Spartans.
 
Then in game two, Rundlett (6-6) allowed all six of NSU's hits and two earned runs. The Bears scored four runs in the third and three in the sixth in their two big innings.
 
A sac fly gave the Bears the early 1-0 lead in the first, while Lopez lined the first pitch of the bottom of the second over the left center field fence. In doing so, she now needs just one home run to tie the NSU Division I record of 11 and two more to tie the overall school record of 12.
 
MSU, however, went up 5-1 in the third. Giselle Alvarez hit a two-run double, and two more hitters had RBI singles later in the frame. Then in the sixth, the heart of MSU's lineup had three straight RBI hits for an 8-1 lead.
 
Senior Jaylene Pryor hit a seeing-eye double in the sixth and later came home on an RBI hit by Lopez that took a bad hop on the MSU third baseman. Pryor had two hits in the game.
 
The two teams will finish the series out with a single game at noon on Sunday.
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