Providence 6, Bethune-Cookman 1
Bethune-Cookman 5, LIU Brooklyn 0
 
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Bethune-Cookman Softball split a pair of games Friday afternoon during the opening day of the Disney Diamond 9 Citrus Blossom Invite at the Disney Wide World of Sports Complex in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. BCU took down LIU Brooklyn, 5-0, before falling to Providence in the nightcap, 6-1.
 
BETHUNE-CCOKMAN 5, LIU BROOKLYN 0
Kaiya Epps-Lee registered her first career home run in historic fashion, while pitchers Victoria Guzman and Destiny Enriquez combined for the shutout in the circle to help power Bethune-Cookman to a 5-0 win over LIU Brooklyn in the Wildcats’ opening game of the Disney Diamond 9 Citrus Blossom Invite at the Disney Wide World of Sports Complex in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
 
PROVIDENCE 6, BETHUNE-COOKMAN 1
Providence struck for five runs in the top of the fourth inning Friday afternoon, as the Friars held off Bethune-Cookman by a 6-1 decision in the second game of the day for the Wildcats as part of the Disney Diamond 9 Citrus Blossom Invite at the Disney Wide World of Sports Complex in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
 
Providence: Recap | Box Score
LIU Brooklyn: Recap | Box Score Hampton 4, NC Central 3
 
DURHAM, N.C. — Sophomore centerfielder Nadia Blevins collected a pair of hits while driving in a run and scoring once to pace the North Carolina Central University softball team in a 4-3 non-conference loss to Hampton University on day one of the Elon University Softball February Classic Friday evening.
 
The Lady Eagles led 2-1 before the Pirates rallied with the next three runs. NCCU plated a run in the bottom of the seventh to pull within one, but freshman pitcher Emily Workman struck out the final two batters of the game with the game-tying runner on base to end the contest in favor of the designated visitors.
 
Workman (1-0) fanned eight batters in her first collegiate start to earn the win. She limited the Lady Eagles to just four hits as Hampton leveled its record at 1-1.
 
Recap | Box Score   Delaware State 4, Norfolk State 3
Longwood 6, Norfolk State 4
Robert Morris 11, Norfolk State 8
 
FARMVILLE, Va. – The Norfolk State softball team dropped all three of its games on Friday during the weather-shortened Lancer Launch, succumbing to Robert Morris, host Longwood and Delaware State at Lancer Field.
 
In the first game of the day, Robert Morris pulled ahead in the latter stages of the game to win 11-8. The Spartans then scored several runs late but could not overcome an early deficit to Longwood in a 6-4 setback. In the last game of the day, Delaware State benefitted from several Spartan miscues in a 4-3 victory.
 
Longwood (5-2) scored single runs in the first, second and fifth innings for a 3-0 run. The Lancers then added three more runs in the sixth, including two on Jessica Smith's single to right.
 
Sophomore Skylar Swain (1-1) allowed eight hits and three runs, two earned, in five innings of work. Sydney Backstrom (3-1) picked up the win in relief after striking out five in 3.1 innings of relief.
 
Delaware State (1-1) scored three of its four runs thanks to errors on the Spartans. Single runs in the third, fourth and fifth innings were all unearned. The Hornets led 3-1 after five innings following Dixon's RBI single in the top of the fifth.
 
NSU scored in the top of the sixth on Iosefa's solo homer, but DSU got an RBI single in the bottom of the sixth for a 4-2 advantage. Halford drove in DesChamps with an RBI single in the seventh to cut the deficit to one, but the Spartans could not push across the tying run.
 
Delaware State: Recap | Box Score  
Longwood: Recap | Box Score  
Robert Morris: Recap | Box Score