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LOCK HAVEN—The Bloomsburg University softball team dropped a pair of games on Tuesday falling to Lock Haven, 2-1 and 7-6, in PSAC (Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference) Central Division action.
 
In game one the Huskies took the early lead. Mandi Baer (Douglassville/Daniel Boone) led the game off with a triple and scored one out later on Rachel Fredell (Dingmans Ferry/Delaware Valley)'s sacrifice fly RBI. The Huskies threatened in the second loading the bases with one out. But Lock Haven pitcher Brianna Jennings got the next two batters to end the threat.
 
Lock Haven broke through in the third inning getting a leadoff double off of Cait Paine (Lebanon/Lebanon) followed by homer from Bridgette Clarke. Bloomsburg had another scoring threat in the fourth. With two outs Mandi Black (Huntington Mills/Northwest Area) and Raychelle Kuhns (Williamsport/Loyalsock) got back-to-back singles, but Jennings got a pop up to end the inning.
 
Paine suffered the loss allowing eight hits and striking out three.
 
In game two the Huskies, who had two runners on in the first, broke through with a pair of runs in both the second and third innings.
 
Lea Rehm (Bloomsburg/Bloomsburg) and Black started the inning by reaching on errors.  Leann Bell (Lanse/West Branch) then delivered a single up the middle scoring Rehm with Black moving to third. Kuhns then grounded out to the pitcher with Black scoring the second run.
 
In the third Fredell started the inning getting hit by a pitch with Belko following with a single to runners at second and third. Hannah Moir (Mount Laurel, NJ/Lenape ) then singled scoring Fredell with Belko taking third. After a lineout, Black hit a sacrifice fly scoring Belko and giving the Huskies a 4-0 lead.
 
Lock Haven rallied and scored all seven of its runs in the fifth inning off of Black. The Lady Eagles put together four hits, had two reach via errors and had one player walk and one get after being hit by a pitch to score their runs.
 
Bloomsburg did get two runs back in the sixth. Baer and Kayla McHale (Dillsburg/Northern) singled with Fredell driving in both runners with a double to make it 7-6. Belko, though, struck out to end the threat.
 
The Huskies threatened in the top of the seventh putting the tying and go-ahead runners on base. But Lock Haven got a ground out to end the threat and hang on for the win.
 
For the doubleheader McHale went 5-8 with a run scored, while Baer was 3-8 with two runs scored.
 
Bloomsburg falls to 24-14, 8-4 in the PSAC Central, with the losses. The Huskies host Clarion on Friday at 2:30 p.m.