FULTON, Mo. – The Spalding University softball team lost both games of their doubleheader at Westminster, 5-4 and 8-2. The losses drop the Golden Eagles to 10-22 overall and 5-9 in SLIAC play.

In game one, the Golden Eagles fell, 5-4, in 10 innings.

Robyn Schoen (5-10) took the loss allowing five runs, three earned, on 10 hits while striking out five batters and walking one.

Amanda Gilliland led the SU hitters going 2-for-5 with one RBI. Hubbard, Lamon and Mouser each drove in one run apiece.

Spalding spotted Westminster a pair of runs in the first inning when Shannon Perrigo brought a pair of runs in with a two-run single to center field. SU battled back to tie it at 2-2 in the fourth. Becca Mouser hit a solo homer in the third and Brooke Lamon scored on a Lindsey Hubbard ground out in the fourth to knot the score at two runs apiece. The Blue Jays regained the lead in the sixth when Alyssa Johnson homered to center field to make it 3-2. The Golden Eagles answered in the seventh when Amanda Gilliland singled to left field scoring Hubbard sending the game to extra innings. SU took the lead in the eighth when an error at first base allowed Mouser to score. However, Westminster answered in the bottom of the inning to extend the game, and eventually scored the game-winner in the 10^th inning on an Amber Tepen walk-off RBI single up the middle.

The Golden Eagles found themselves on the losing end again in game two falling, 8-2.

Amber Kilburn (3-10) suffered the loss allowing eight runs, on 14 hits, while striking out six batters and walking three.

Alyssa McAfee led Spalding at the plate going 2-for-2 with two RBIs, including a homerun in the sixth inning. Gilliland and Hubbard also tallied a pair of hits for the game.

Similar to game one, the Golden Eagles gave up a pair of runs in the bottom of the first in game two on a Tepen double and an Erica Burney single that scored Tepen to make it 2-0. The Blue Jays added two more runs in the third inning. Spalding got back a run in the fourth inning on an Alyssa McAfee single up the middle that scored Mackenzee Sawyer, but Westminster put four more runs on the board in the fifth inning to make it 8-1. McAfee homered to center in the sixth inning to trim the deficit to six runs, but that's as close as SU would get falling, 8-2.

The Golden Eagles will be back in action Friday, April 29 when they host Iowa Wesleyan; 2:30 p.m. EST at Holy Cross.