TOWSON, Md. – Katie Lingmai threw a one-hit shutout as part of a 10-0 victory Sunday to help
the Tigers (9-8, 0-0 CAA) complete a series sweep of the Columbia Lions at the Tiger Softball
Complex. It was Towson's third straight shutout victory.
Seniors Erika Stasch and Brianna Jones and sophomore Delanie Dunham
each hit home runs in the win for the Tigers, who scored 27 runs in the
three-game sweep of Columbia. Dunham's solo home run in the fourth inning was
the first of her career.
“We have everything going right now,”
Towson Head Coach Lisa Costello
said. “We are hitting well, we are pitching great and we are playing solid
defense. Some of our younger players are putting good at-bats together and it
is not just falling on the middle of our lineup to produce runs.”
The Tiger bats erupted in the fourth
inning, scoring eight runs on seven hits, including the home runs by Stasch and
Dunham. Freshman shortstop Hailey Balk
laced a two-run double to left field as part of the fourth inning outburst for
Towson.
Lingmai struck out six batters and did
not allow her first hit until the fifth inning. With two outs, Columbia's Morgan Cook singled up the middle to
give the Lions their first and only hit.
Lingmai won her fourth game of the
season while lowering her earned run average to 2.57.
Towson will finish its six-game home
stand Tuesday when they face the Seton Hall Pirates for a doubleheader
beginning at 2 p.m.