Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 | Box Score 3 ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. -- The Elizabeth City State University softball team won two of its three contests on the first day of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association Softball Round Up at the South Park Athletic Complex on Friday.

THE BASICS

Location:
South Park Athletic Complex, Elizabeth City, N.C.

Scores:
Game 1: Winston-Salem State 17, Elizabeth City State 2 (5 Innings)
Game 2: Elizabeth City State 9, Shaw University 4
Game 3: Elizabeth City State 9, St. Augustine's 3 (8 Innings)

HOW IT HAPPENED

Game 1: The Vikings gave up a leadoff home run to WSSU's Chambers but recovered to score off of an Alexis Blackwell single to left center field in the bottom of the first. ECSU (0-10, 0-1 CIAA) would take a 2-1 lead in the first following a Shea Vaccaro single to right that scored Blackwell from second base.

Winston-Salem State (10-3, 1-0 CIAA) would answer in the top of the fourth as Chambers singled to left that would clear the bases after an error by ECSU. The Rams would pile on the runs in the fifth, scoring 13, to bring the final margin to 17-2.

The Vikings were led by Stephanie Komives, Alexis Blackwell and Shea Vaccaro who all had two hits for the contest.

Game 2: Cheyan Brasseur started the scoring off for ECSU as the sophomore laced a double to right field in the second inning that scored D'Aysa Wilson from second base. Shaw answered with a run of their own in both the bottom of the second and third to take a 2-1 lead.

ECSU would put their first crooked number on the board in the top of the fifth as the Vikings scored three off of a RBI single from Stephanie Komives and RBI doubles to left field biy Alyssa Griffin and Sarah Phillips.

Shaw trimmed their deficit down to 4-3 with a RBI ground out by Thompson in the bottom of the sixth.

ECSU put some distance between themselves and the Bears by scoring five in the top half of the seventh off of RBI hits from Sara Phillips, Camryn West and Shea Vaccaro.

Shaw tacked on one additional run in the bottom of the seventh off of a Alex Masnica single to short.

The Vikings were led by Alyssa Griffin who went 3-for-4 with two doubles in the game. Sara Phillips, Cheyan Brasseur and Alexis Blackwell all registered multiple hits in the winning effort.

Game 3: Both ECSU and St. Augustine's would battle to a scoreless tie through five innings before ECSU was able to score two in the top half of the sixth inning. ECSU continued to shut down the Falcons until the bottom of the seventh when the Falcons scratched across two runs to tie the contest and send it into extra innings.

From that point, it was all Vikings as ECSU scored seven runs in the top of the eighth. St. Augustine's countered with a run of their own in the bottom of the frame but it wasn't enough.

UP NEXT

The Vikings will turn right back around and face Livingstone at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday morning to start day two of the CIAA Softball Round Up. The Vikings will then take on Johnson C. Smith at 12:15 p.m. All games will take place at the South Park Athletic Complex in Elizabeth City.