Softball | 4/13/2014 9:16:00 PM

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The Shippensburg University softball team came out on the wrong end of a 10-inning pitcher's duel in a 2-1 loss in the opener of Sunday afternoon's road PSAC East doubleheader at Mansfield before dropping the nightcap, 7-2, from Mansfield's Lutes Field.
 
Each team mustered six hits in Game 1, with Mansfield plating a run in the first inning and the Raiders (22-8, 8-6 PSAC East) tying the game in the third with an infield RBI single by senior left fielder Hilary Lyons.
 
Senior Emily Estep struck out 13 in a 150-pitch effort over nine innings while surrendering five hits. She struck out the side in the second and sixth and after giving up a run in the first, didn't allow a runner past second base for the remainder of her outing.
 
Junior Makenzie Lynn entered to pitch the 10^th and suffered the hard-luck loss as Mansfield placed a runner on second base to start the inning by virtue of the international tiebreaker rule. A sacrifice bunt moved the runner to third before Lynn gave up a walk-off RBI single to right for a 2-1 Mansfield win.
 
Down 3-0 after a three-run third for Mansfield in Game 2, Shippensburg scored a pair of runs in the top of the fourth with a bases-loaded single by junior designated player Jessie Trammell and an RBI groundout in the next at-bat by sophomore catcher Taylor Llewellyn to make the score 3-2.
 
Manfield responded with two runs in the bottom half of the inning as well as two more runs in the next frame to open up a 7-2 lead through five innings. Lynn earned the start and pitched into the fourth while freshman Casey Thompson gave up zero earned runs and three hits in 2.2 innings of relief.
 
Shippensburg will host Kutztown tomorrow afternoon in a PSAC East doubleheader beginning at 3:30 p.m. from Robb Field.