Box Score LORMAN, Miss. – The Alabama State softball team defeated Alcorn 5-4 in game one of its three-game series on the “Reservation” today.
                          
“It was a win. Still not on the level that we play, but we played well enough to start turning the tables,” head coach Telma Hall said. “Our defense was our foundation in the beginning of the season and we must add solidity back to our infield to regain that foundation.  We are still giving up too many runs off of routine plays. Our pitchers are doing their job to get us the routine plays, so our defense must reward and give our pitching staff confidence by completing the plays.”
 
A Brehanna Rodrigues bases loaded single to left field scored Breyya Wright from third to get the Lady Hornets on the scoreboard first. ASU recorded another run off the bat of Ayesha Famble to score Yvette Ducoing from third to take a 2-0 lead over the Lady Braves in the top half of the second inning.
 
Alcorn (7-25 overall, 1-7 SWAC) scored two runs to tie the game at 2-all in the second and third innings.
 
Alabama State (11-24 overall, 6-2 SWAC) added two more runs in the fourth, scoring Rodrigues and Famble from second and third off a Sosefina Toilolo double to left field.
 
The Lady Braves scored an unearned run in the fifth off a throwing error by the Lady Hornets to make the score 4-3.
 
ASU recorded a run in the seventh off a single to right field by Ducoing to take the 5-4 win over Alcorn.   
 
The Lady Hornets will be back in action Saturday, April 7 when they face Alcorn in a double-header on the Reservation beginning at 12 p.m.
 
 
 
 
 
 


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