HILO, Hawaii – The No. 1 Lock Haven University softball team (0-2) dropped both games of a doubleheader today as the Lady Eagles opened their 2009 season at the University of Hawaii at Hilo (7-9).

Lock Haven dropped game one 2-0 and fell in game two of the doubleheader 7-6 in eight innings.

Seniors Ilia Lopez (Bloomsburg, Pa./Bloomsburg) and Sarah Norris (West Chester, Pa./West Chester East) accounted for Lock Haven’s two hits in game one.

Hilo went up 1-0 in the bottom of the fourth inning and tacked on an insurance run in the sixth to take home the win.

Senior Kristin Erb (Reading, Pa./Exeter Township) went all six innings in the circle and allowed six hits. She gave up both runs, only one of which was earned.

Erb struck out four and walked two.

Game two of the day at Hilo went into extra innings, but the home team was again victorious as LHU fell to 0-2 on the young season.

The Lady Eagles six runs came off 11 hits.

Four different players had a multiple-hit game for the crimson and white, including Julia Popovich (Lemont, Pa./State College), Brittany Pataky (Clearfield, Pa./Clearfield), Erb and Lopez.

Popovich and Pataky both went 2-for-3 at the plate, while Lopez went 2-for-4.

Erb, looked to help her own cause in the circle and went 2-for-2 with a home run.

Norris helped The Haven offense with a three-run home run.

Amanda Roosa (Pompton Lakes, N.J./Pompton Lakes) chipped in with two RBIs.

Erb went the distance in the circle and recorded four strikeouts.

LHU went up 1-0 in the second, but Hilo responded with two runs in the bottom half.

It was 6-4 Hilo heading into the seventh, but Lock Haven tied the game.

LHU was held scoreless in the top half of the eighth, before Hilo picked up the winning-run in the bottom of the inning.

The Lady Eagles are back in action tomorrow (Sunday, March 1) as they take on this same Hilo team. Tomorrow’s first pitch is set for noon (The Hawaiian-Aleutian Time Zone, five hours behind EST).