The Shippensburg University softball team concluded its weekend in North Carolina on Sunday by splitting a pair of games at Lenoir-Rhyne University, dropping a 5-1 game to the hosts before coming back with a 7-6 win over King (Tenn.) on a temperate day at Bears Field.
 
Sophomore Kayla Bonawitz had six hits Sunday – three in each game. Bonawitz is now batting .520 (13-for-25) through the first seven games of the season and has not struck out in 25 at-bats.
 
Junior Taryn Wilson threw 11 innings, striking out nine in the circle. Senior Chloe Collins threw two shutout innings of relief against the Bears in the first game of the day.
 
Senior Tara Bicko and freshman Courtney Coy had a hit in each game, while sophomores Meghan Klee and Emily Zaring both contributed two hits in Game 2.
 
Shippensburg (4-3) scored five runs in the second inning against King (1-2) and added two more in the sixth, taking a 7-3 lead into the bottom of the seventh. The Tornado made it interesting with a three-run home run with two outs, but Wilson got the final out to secure the win for the Raiders.
 
SU's five-run second inning featured more success for the Raiders with two outs. Sophomore Kendall Geis delivered an RBI fielder's choice for the second out which prefaced a single by Coy, a bunt single by senior Anna Warfield, a two-run double by Bicko and a two-run single by Bonawitz.
 
In the sixth, SU scored an unearned run and added another on an RBI-double by Zaring. Sophomore Micaela Ghanayem walked in the inning and had a successful sacrifice in the five-run second inning. She had two sacrifice bunts on the day.
 
In the 10 a.m. matinee against host Lenoir-Rhyne (9-3), the Raiders took a 1-0 lead in the third inning on an unearned run. The Bears got a two-out, two-double in the fourth inning and added three runs in the fifth inning en route to the victory.
 
Shippensburg's next scheduled games are at home in two weeks. The Raiders are set to host Alderson Broaddus on Sat., March 3 in a 1 p.m. doubleheader.