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Box Score 2 Titusville, Fla. – The day started well for Lynn University's softball team with a pitching dominating 3-1 victory over Oakland City but ended in an error-marred 3-1 loss to Bloomfield. Fighting Knights pitchers fanned 11 batters against the Mighty Oaks and Karolina Flores went 5-for-6 at the plate with a game-winning triple.
INSIDE THE MATCHUP:
Score: Game 1 – Lynn 3, Oakland City 1 (8 innings); Game 2 – Bloomfield 3, Lynn 1
Records: Lynn (12-9), Oakland City (3-5), Bloomfield (5-2)
Location: Chain Lakes Park | Titusville, Fla.
All-Time Series: Lynn is 2-0 all-time against Oakland City and 1-1 against Bloomfield
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STATS OF THE GAME:
- Game 1
- Rachel Lightner earned her first start of the season and did not disappoint, striking out four batters in five innings, allowing one run on five hits.
- Francais Olexa moved her record to 5-5 in the circle with three shutout innings. The junior southpaw tied a season-high with seven Ks.
- Flores was the main offensive centerpiece, going 3-for-4 and breaking a 1-1 tie in the eighth inning with a RBI triple.
- Mackenzie Wyatt added the final RBI with a sacrifice fly in the eighth.
- Game 1
- Katelyn Key took the loss (3-2) despite allowing two runs, only one earned, on five hits.
- A day after no-hitting Oakland City, Kayla Sheffield surrendered one unearned run on one hit.
- Flores scored Lynn's only run of the game after leading off the bottom of the fourth with a triple and later scoring on Victoria Rios' sac fly.
- Rios went 1-for-2 and Olexa 1-for-3.
BEYOND THE BOXSCORE:
- This is the second start of the year Key has not issued a walk.
- Flores extended her hitting streak to six games, one off her career-best. She has gone 11-for-21 with one home run, two doubles, two triples and eight runs batted in.
- Olexa's fifth victory in the circle is two off her career-high set in 2016.
ON DECK:
The Fighting Knights are back in action on Friday, Mar. 10, when they take on Chestnut Hill in a 1 p.m. doubleheader in Titusville, Fla. Fans can keep up with the action live at LynnFightingKnights.com.
