Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Due West, S.C. – The Erskine Flying Fleet (17-19, 8-6) dropped two games, losing 3-1 and 9-8, to the Crusaders of North Greenville University (26-13, 11-5) this afternoon in Conference Carolinas softball action at the Erskine College Softball Complex.
 
Game One
 
NGU's Rachel Glazebrook silenced the Erskine bats, allowing just two hits over seven innings, in earning the complete game shutout.  Erskine had runners in scoring position four times but could not push a run across the plate.  Ashlyn Hicks (Caycee, SC, Brookland-Cayce High School) and Jacquie Hill (North Augusta, SC, North Augusta High School) accounted for the two Fleet hits, both singles. 
 
Erskine pitcher Danica Newton (Mt. Pleasant, SC, Wando High School) pitched well, giving up three runs, only two earned, on nine hits over five and third innings.
 
NGU took advantage of an Erskine miscue in the first inning to plate their first run then added run in the second and sixth innings. 
 
Senior pitcher Katherine Mulzer (Donalds, SC, Dixie High School) pitched the final inning and two-thirds.
 
Game Two
 
After the two teams combined for just three runs and eleven hits in the first game, the two teams exploded for seventeen runs on twenty-four hits in the nightcap.
 
NGU knocked out Erskine pitcher Danica Newton in the first inning, blasting two home runs to score four runs.  Newton pitched to just five batters.
 
Erskine got two runs back in the bottom of the first then erupted for six runs in the bottom of the fifth to take an 8 to 5 lead.   Junior Kathryn Windham (Manning, SC, Manning High School) capped off the Erskine rally with a three-run home run, her seventh of the year.   Sophomore Christine Long (Greer, SC, Greer High School) also contributed a two-run double.
 
NGU bounced right back, tagging six consecutive hits off Mulzer, who had relieved Newton in the first, to score four runs and retake the lead 9 to 8.
 
Erskine had runners in scoring position the last two innings but could not get a hit off Glazebrook, who had returned to the circle after pitching the first two innings.
 
Hill, Windham, and Hicks each had two hits apiece to pace the Fleet attack.
 
Erskine returns to the diamond tomorrow afternoon, travelling to Gaffney, South Carolina, to play two games against Limestone College.