LOCK HAVEN, Pa. – Kristen Erb (Reading, Pa./Exeter Townships) was perfect and the No. 2 Lock Haven University softball team (42-5) got the run support the Lady Eagles needed, as they rolled past Bowie State University (26-7) 8-0 in five innings in the opening game of the 2009 NCAA Division II Atlantic Region 1 Softball Tournament.

Erb, LHU’s senior-ace struck out 12-of-15 batters on the way to the perfect game.

The Haven’s eight runs came off 10 hits and six different Lady Eagles recorded RBIs.

A Nancy O’Connor (West Chester, Pa./West Chester East) two-out single drove in Kristin Montoro (Coatesville, Pa./Downingtown West) in the bottom of the fifth inning to secure LHU’s win in five.

O’Connor finished with a 2-for-3 performance at the plate.

Amanda Roosa (Pompton Lakes, N.J./Pompton Lakes) was also 2-for-3 at the plate.

Ilia Lopez (Bloomsburg, Pa./Bloomsburg) homered in the win.

Lock Haven jumped all over Bowie early, tacking on two runs in each of the first two innings. LHU added a three-spot in the bottom of the third to pave the way for the win.

Faline Brown got the start in the pitching circle for Bowie State, the tournament’s No. 8 seed and Central Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) champions. Brown gave up six runs on seven hits in only two innings of work.

In game two today at LHU, California (Pa.) University outlasted Shippensburg University in a 17-innning marathon that lasted nearly four hours.

Cal finally scored the game-winning run in the bottom of the 17th inning.

California’s Julia MacKenzie got things started early, as she hit a home run to center field in the bottom of the first. The two teams remained scoreless until MacKenzie came through again in the bottom of the fourth with a RBI-single.

Shippensburg University would score their two runs in the top of the sixth on RBIs by Courtney Steele and Lori Knopf.

The teams would hold each other scoreless until the bottom of the 17th inning when Julia Miller hit a RBI-single up the middle scoring Kristen McKenzie.

LHU, the region’s No. 1 seed will now face Cal tomorrow.

At the Atlantic Region’s other site host-Kutztown University downed Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Eastern Division foe West Chester University 5-1.

KU was the No. 2 seed, while WCU came in as the seven-seed.

In game two at KU, No. 6 West Virginia Wesleyan took down No. 3 Bloomsburg University 2-1.

Lock Haven returns to action tomorrow at 10 a.m. when they play California (Pa.).

Bowie State will take on Shippensburg at 12:30 p.m.