GULF SHORES, AL – The Lyon College Scots softball team played in the Gulf Shores tournament that began on Friday and dropped a 2-0 decision to Central Methodist University and fell in eight innings to Faulkner University 8-6.
 
The Scots (0-8) will play today at 9 a.m. against Brenau University (Ga.) and then they will play Thomas University (Ga.) at 1:30 p.m.
 
In the first game against Central Methodist, the Scots struck out 19 times had left three runners on base. Kassidy Robinson walked and Morgan Englehardt walked twice in the game for Lyon College.
 
Alyssa Buentello pitched six innings for the Scots and allowed only two runs on six hits. The Scots had no hits in the game.
 
Against Faulkner, Lyon College led 6-3 until the top of the sixth inning when Faulkner tied the game. Faulkner added two runs in the eighth inning to win the game 8-6.
 
Georgia Holzer pitched five innings for the Scots and gave up four runs. Alyssa Buentello came in to go the final three innings from the circle.
 
Faulkner led 3-0 before the Scots came to bat in the bottom of the first inning. Addison Harmon scored on a passed ball, Kassidy Robinson scored on a sacrifice fly from Celsey Wood. Still in the bottom of the first, MK Duffield singled to left field to bring in Morgan Englehardt and Jasmine Carlos for a 4-3 Lyon College lead.
 
The Scots got two more runs in the bottom of the second inning when Englehardt singled to center field to bring in Harmon and Robinson for a 6-3 lead.
 
Faulkner homered in the fifth and a two-run double in the sixth tied the game. Then in the eighth inning, Faulkner scored on a wild pitch and a single.