CONWAY, Ark – Coppin State's softball team fell to the host Bears, 2-1, and the University of Kansas, 10-2 in the final day of the Central Arkansas Invitational on Sunday. The Eagles now stand at 0-4 on the year prior to next weekend's inaugural Coppin State Eagle Classic.
Cayla Brown put Coppin on the board first in the opener against Central Arkansas with a first inning RBI double. Scoring on the play was
Aysha Richardson who led off the game with a double before a pair of outs.
Madison Didion cruised through the Bears lineup, retiring the first ten batters that she faced before allowing her first hit with a one-out single in the fourth. It would be the only hit Didion allowed until the seventh inning when she re-entered the game in place of Richardson who struck out the first batter she faced prior to loading the bases.
Didion re-entered the game and gave up a walk-off single to center field.
Coppin outhit the Bears, 7-2, but a dropped fly ball in the sixth allowed the Bears to tie the score at one.
Patricia Soria went 2-for-2 with a walk while
Nicole Ullman also had a two-hit game. Didion allowed just an unearned run on two hits while striking out three in 6.0 innings.
In game two, Kansas got to pitcher
Megan Brogden with five runs in the first four innings before Coppin got a pair of runs in its half of the fourth.
Nia Bowe and Brogden reached one one-out singles and advanced into scoring position on a sac bunt before Soria drove both players in with a double to left.
Kansas would get one of the runs back in the fifth and added two runs apiece in the sixth and seventh inning while the Eagles were unable to muster any more runs.
