Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 JACKSON, Tenn. - Runs were hard to come by on Friday afternoon for the Freed-Hardeman Lady Lions, managing one run in two games in losses to William Woods (Mo.) and Columbia (Mo.) on the first day of the Union University Classic, 5-0 and 5-1.

In the first game, William Woods got three homeruns that accounted for all five of its runs in their win over the Lady Lions.

FHU had its best chance to score in the first inning after loading the bases with two outs, but WWU pitcher Kelsey Schulte got Traci Gibbons to pop up to end the inning. Schutle then locked down the Lady Lion bats for the next five innings, retiring 15 straight batters though she got a scare in the fourth when Britney Caldwell hit a deep fly ball to center field that was caught on the warning track.

Caldwell started off strong in the circle for Freed-Hardeman, retiring 11 of the first 12 batters she faced before Colleen Dailey broke up the no-hitter with a two-strike, two-out solo homerun to left field. WWU expanded its lead with two-run homers from Schulte in the sixth and Aubrey Crabtree in the seventh.

Caldwell led off the bottom of the seventh with a single to center field for FHU's first hit since the first inning, but the Lady Lions couldn't advance a runner past second base before Schulte struck out pinch hitter Samantha Stricklin to end the game.

In the second game, Columbia got two runs in the first on a two-out homerun by Coleman to take an early lead that the Lady Cougars would not relinquish. They loaded the bases with nobody out in the second and appeared to be on the verge of blowing the game open, but FHU pitcher Summer Cole retired the next three batters and escaped with only allowing one run on a sacrifice fly with one out.

Columbia got another run with two outs in the fifth on an RBI double, but FHU got the run back in the bottom of the frame on Jill Brock's double that brought in Brittany Steverson. That, however, would be the only run the Lady Lions would muster and Columbia tacked on another run in the top of the sixth for the final margin of 5-1.

Brock and Brandi Edwards each had two hits in the second game, while Cole worked her way out of several jams to allow three earned runs in seven innings of work. FHU matched Columbia in hits with eight.

Caldwell and Betsy Pickler also had two hits on the day, one in each game.

The Lady Lions face the same two teams tomorrow, taking on William Woods at 9:00 followed by Columbia at 1:00.