TOWSON, Md. – Playing for the first time in nearly a month, Coppin State's softball team dropped back-to-back games to UMass Lowell, 8-0, and Central Connecticut State, 4-0, on Saturday afternoon at Tiger Softball Stadium. The Eagles now stand at 1-5 on the season.
Game 1: UMass Lowell def. Coppin State, 8-0
Aniyah Haley and
Julianna Mejia had Coppin's only two hits while
Giselle Ulloa and
Brooklyn Tapusoa reached on walks.
Emily Quintero tossed a complete game, allowing eight runs on ten hits with one strikeout.
UMass Lowell scored five runs over the first three innings before Quintero held them scoreless in both the fourth and sixth. Coppin's best chance to score came in the sixth when Haley doubled with one out before advancing to third on a wild pitch. The Eagles failed to capitalize with the next two batters getting retired.
Game 2: Central Connecticut State def. Coppin State, 4-0
Giselle Ulloa went 2-for-3 with a double while
Brooklyn Tapusoa and
Yasmin Burrell added the other hits for the Eagles.
Debra Hyde threw a complete game, giving up four runs on eight hits while striking out three.
CCSU struck for two in the first and one in the second before Hyde threw a 1-2-3 third and stranded a pair of runners in the fourth. A pair of hits put a run across for the Blue Devils in the fifth before they went scoreless in the sixth.
Coppin failed to capitalize on two hits and an error in the first, going scoreless while stranding a pair of runners.
Julianna Mejia reached on a one-out error and got to second on a single by Mejia. After
Leslie Sereno lined out, Tapusoa singled but a base-running mistake caught Ulloa out between second and third.
Up Next: Coppin faces UMass Lowell at 12:30 pm and Towson at 3 pm on Sunday, March 8.
