CHARLESTON, S.C. ? The Presbyterian College softball team was unable to keep its win streak going as the squad was defeated twice by Charleston Southern Friday afternoon in a Big South doubleheader. Game scores were 9-0 and 4-0.

The Blue Hose fall to 11-12 on the season and now stand 1-2 in Big South play. The Lady Bucs improve to 18-18 overall and 4-1 against conference competition.

Neither game went the way head coach Dave Majeski wanted.

In game one, a fielder's choice brought home the contest's first run, giving the home team a 1-0 advantage after the first inning of play. The run would eventually be enough.

Every inning after the first, the home team would put runners on base. However, the Blue Hose defense continued to keep the squad at bay. In the second, the team got a fielder's choice to end the inning with the bases loaded. The third frame featured two runners left on base before a groundout ended the threat.

However, things caught up to PC in the fourth inning as an error allowed for one unearned run. CSU played small ball with the big hit of the inning being a two-run single. The Lady Bucs would eventually get five runs on three hits while leaving the bases loaded in the frame before Mary Gordon struck the last two batters of the inning out. 

The Blue Hose would get just a single through the left side by Becca Caldwell as the only other base runner the squad would have in the game from that point forward.

Caldwell and Krysten Handy each had a base hit while Brittany Howell earned a walk.

Gordon took the loss, throwing four innings while giving up six runs (five earned) on seven hits. She walked four and struck out five.

Game two started out better for PC, but the squad was unable to convert on some key early opportunities.

In the first, Howell was hit by a pitch, loading the bases with two away. Taylor Staten had reached on an error while Rachel Parker had singled up the middle. However, Ashley Ford struck out to end the best threat of the day.

Howell went to work in the circle and despite an error, got out of the first unscathed.

PC left two runners on base in the second frame. With one away, Amanda Miller doubled to left center, but was eventually cut down on a fielder's choice, which ended the inning.

A one-out triple in the third frame gave CSU a 2-0 advantage. The team would tack on a run later in the stanza, giving it a 3-0 lead. Then, after PC was unable to bring Laura Tate Owings home after a two-out double, the Lady Bucs plated another run in the fourth for a 4-0 advantage.

Despite giving up just one run, Howell took the loss for the Blue Hose. She went 2.1 innings while allowing a mere hit and one earned run. She walked one and struck out one.

Leslie Hensley went 3.2 innings, giving up three runs (two earned) on five hits. She did not walk a batter and struck out one.

For the game, PC gave up four runs on six hits. The Blue Hose tallied five hits in the contest.

Kayla Handy, Parker, Howell, Miller and Tate Owings all had one hit in the game. Miller and Owings both reached on doubles.

The teams return to action tomorrow at 1 p.m., in the final game of the three-game set.