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COLUMBUS – Wrapping up its first home tournament of the season, the Columbus State University softball team picked up a split of Sunday's pair of games. The tournament was played at Cougar Field.
 
Columbus State (5-5) lost 4-1 to Wingate before a five-inning 10-0 victory against Tuskegee.
 
The Lady Cougars will head on the road Friday and Saturday for the Citrus Classic at the ESPN Wide World of Sports.
 
Game One
 
After a pair of scoreless frames, Wingate broke through with a two-run double to open the scoring in the top of the third.
 
The Lady Cougars got one of the runs right back with one swing as JoJo Beyer launched a long home run to left field, her second long ball of the season.
 
The scoring would stop there though for the Lady Cougars. Wingate would later get two more on a home run in the fifth to add to the lead.
 
Elizabeth Perdue had the only multi-hit showing in the opener, going 2-for-3 at the plate.
 
Darby Demarest (2-2) went the distance in the circle, allowing four runs on five hits with six strikeouts.
 
Game Two
 
The Lady Cougars were held scoreless in the first, but it was the only inning they didn't score in.
 
Calli Star tucked a solo home run inside the left field foul pole in the second to get the offense started, and Keeli Waugh later singled home Beyer to make it a 2-0 game.
 
In the third, Perdue got in on the act with a three-run missile over the left-centerfield wall to stretch the lead to five.
 
Perdue wasn't done though. The junior stepped up with the bases loaded in the following inning and promptly unloaded them with a grand slam.
 
Just for good measure, Star cranked out her second homer of the game to go back-to-back and finish off the scoring for CSU.
 
Perdue was 2-for-3 in game two as well, driving in seven runs. All nine Lady Cougar starters had at least one hit in the game.
 
Harley Dawson (1-2) allowed just one hit over four shutout innings for the victory. Helen Snavely closed it out with a scoreless fifth.