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ALBERTVILLE, Ala. – The Lincoln Memorial softball team split its two games in the first day of the Charger Chillout on Friday.
 
The No. 20 Railsplitters (7-1) beat UIndy 6-4 in the first game before being hit with their first loss of the season in a 12-4 Mississippi College victory.
 
Game 1: Lincoln Memorial 6, UIndy 4
 
The Railsplitters got a go-ahead 3-run homerun from McKenzie Henry in the bottom of the 5^th inning to take a 5-4 lead, and pitcher Emma Frost shut down the Greyhounds in the 6^th and 7^th innings to give Lincoln Memorial the win.
 
Indianapolis got on the board first with a single run in the top of the 1^st inning before an RBI double from Henry and a bases loaded walk by Katy Pozzuto propelled the Railsplitters to a 2-1 edge. The Greyhounds got single runs in the 3^rd, 4^th, and 5^th innings before Henry's big blast. Victoria Conley provided an insurance run with an RBI double later in the 5^th that plated Sterre den Duijn and served as the final run of the game.
 
Frost struck out 11 while allowing 4 runs over 7 innings to improve to 4-0 in the pitchers mound on the season. UIndy's Kenzee Smith took the loss.
 
Game 2: Mississippi College 12, Lincoln Memorial 4
 
The Choctaws scored the first 11 runs of the contest (2 in the 1^st inning, 4 in the 2^nd and 5 in the 3^rd) to claim the win.
 
Anna Kate Reichter had a pair of RBI singles for the Railsplitters, while Pozzuto had 2 knocks, an RBI and a run scored. Conley, Elora Wilmot and Kassidy Miller saw their first action of the season in the pitchers circle.
 
Up Next
The Railsplitters play Young-Harris and Shorter on Saturday in Day 2 of the Charger Chillout.