LIVINGSTON, Ala. | The Tuskegee University softball team dropped a doubleheader to the University of West Alabama in non-conference softball action Wednesday afternoon, dropping the first game 15-5 before falling in the nightcap.
 
In the first game, Jamaica Williams had the big blow for Tuskegee (0-7) in the first inning. After Karisa Foye pushed Adrienne Eaddy and Kenyah Smith into scoring position with a sacrifice hit, Williams put the Lady Golden Tigers up 3-0. Unfortunately, West Alabama answered and took the lead for good in the bottom of the first inning.
 
Tuskegee was able to score in the third inning when Foye and Williams reached on back-to-back errors by West Alabama. After a Roneshia Rudolph ground out moved Williams into scoring position, Jasmine Howard drove her in with a single to left and later scored on a wild pitch.
 
Tuskegee had a chance to score in the top of the fifth when they advanced a runner into scoring position, but was unable to push them across the plate.
 
In the opener, Eaddy and Howard each went 2-for-3 at the plate; while Acey Spence suffered the loss for Tuskegee in 1.1 innings of work. She was touched for 10 runs off of five hits, before Tori Beth Garner came on in relief to work 4.1 innings and allowed five runs off of seven hits.
 
In game two, West Alabama scored early while holding Tuskegee to a pair of hits in the game.
 
Rudolph and Sharde Thomas collected the hits in the loss, while Kaylin Finch (0-2) suffered the loss with 2.2 innings of work. Morgan Burrell came on to work 0.2 innings and allowed five runs off of three hits, while Foye worked the remaining 0.2 innings and allowed one run off of one hit.
 
Tuskegee returns to action Saturday in the Cougar Classic, facing Lincoln Memorial and ninth-ranked Georgia College in Columbus.
 
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