Joplin, Mo. -- The Missouri Southern softball team swept a double-header from visiting Lincoln University today by the scores of 2-1 and 8-0. The games were part of a pair that was postponed back on March 20 and were originally slated to be played at Lincoln in Jefferson City.

Southern (10-24) finished the suspended game from March 20 first today. Lacee Craig started the game then and finished it today, allowing just one run and scattering six hits through seven innings.

The Lions scored two unearned runs in the third, when Angie Turner doubled with two outs and Racheal Bowen reached on an error by the right fielder and moved up to second, scoring Turner on the play. Kayleigh Cecil then singled home Bowen for the Lions' two runs.

Turner went 2-3 in the game with a run and a double.

Craig started game two, as well, and sparkled allowing just one hit in four innings, striking out three. The Lions scored five runs over the first two innings, then put it away with two in the fourth and one in the fifth to win 8-0 by the run rule.

Turner started the scoring with an RBI double to left field scoring Kate Brittan for the game's first run. JT Taylor tripled to start the second inning and scored on a Sam Neely RBI single. Amanda Godfrey sacrificed Neely to second and Emily McPeters hit a double off the centerfield wall to score Neely. Turner then followed that up with a two-run homer to center.

Cecil added an RBI single in the fourth and Andrea Childs had a sacrifice fly scoring Bowen to make the score 7-0. Southern scored the final run in the fifth when Turner reached on an error and Brittan scored.

Kelli Bax pitched a perfect fifth inning in relief.

Turner went 2-3 with two runs and three RBIs while Neely was 3-3 with a run and an RBI. Cecil was 2-2 with an RBI and Brittan scored two runs.

The Lions will get back into MIAA play this Friday and Saturday traveling to Missouri Western and Northwest Missouri State.