Lincoln softball swept in doubleheader at Central Missouri

WARRENSBURG - The Lincoln softball team nearly snapped a 14-game losing skid Sunday, but the Blue Tigers dropped a doubleheader to Central Missouri, losing game one 4-3 in eight innings and game two 9-2.

Lincoln was held to just two hits through six innings in the first game, but the Blue Tigers sent the game into extra innings with a three-run seventh inning to tie the score at 3.

Jordan Lawson reached on an error and Macie Kinsey hit a two-run home run - her first of the season - to left-center field to pull Lincoln within one run at 3-2.

Tori Nienhueser made it back-to-back home runs for the Blue Tigers, following Kinsey with a solo shot to center field to tie the game. Nienhueser leads Lincoln with four home runs and 19 RBI.

The Jennies won in the bottom of the eighth on a one-out, walk-off single by Hailey Crabtree.

Kiley Kerr had Lincoln's first two hits of the game, both singles.

Madison Ragar took the loss in the pitcher's circle, allowing four runs on nine hits with two walks and one strikeout in 71/3 innings.

Central Missouri scored the first six runs of the second game. Lincoln was held scoreless until the top of the fifth, when Nienhueser scored on a groundout and Maddie Stricklan came home on a fielding error to trim the deficit to 6-2.

Kinsey had a double and Kerr added a single for the Blue Tigers' only hits. Kerr and Mykenzie Livesay each had one RBI.

Sarah Westhoff took the loss, giving up nine runs on 15 hits in four-plus innings. Kinsey came in relief and finished the fifth, then followed with a scoreless sixth inning.

Lincoln (5-45, 2-22 MIAA) will wrap up the regular season today at Southwest Baptist. The doubleheader starts at 2 p.m.