WEST CHESTER, Pa. – The Philadelphia University softball team kicked off its 2012 campaign with a doubleheader split against West Chester University Tuesday afternoon. The Lady Rams earned the win in game one, 6-2, while the Golden Rams were game two winners, 11-3 in five innings.

In the first game Philadelphia took a 2-1 lead in the fourth inning on back-to-back one-out hits by second base Meaghan Lewis and third baseman Andrea Schell. Lewis tripled in left fielder Emma Haley, who started the inning off with a double. Lewis came in a score on a Schell single.

After the Golden Rams (7-5) added a run in the fifth, the Lady Rams tacked on three more runs in the sixth. Lewis scored the first run on a wild pitch. Right fielder Samantha Riabko doubled in Schell and designated player Kate Renner. In the seventh inning Lewis hit a solo home run.

Lewis had three of Philadelphia's nine hits, while Schell and Renner had two each. Jillian Murray went 3-for-3 to pace West Chester, who had six hits.

Nicole Troisi earned the complete-game win. She struck out four while allowed two unearned runs on six hits. Kim Murl took the loss after giving up three runs, two earned, on five hits in five innings.

In the nightcap, Philadelphia took a 1-0 lead on a Schell single in the first inning.

The teams traded a run, West Chester's in the first and Philadelphia's in the third, to make the score 2-1. Then in the fourth, West Chester exploded for eight runs to take a 9-2 advantage. The Lady Rams came back with one more run in the fifth. Kelly Anderson ended the game with a two-run double in the bottom of the fifth.

Devon Utterback was the winning pitcher for West Chester. She struck out seven hitters in five innings and gave up three runs, two earned, on five hits. Philadelphia's Samantha Abromavage took the loss after allowed nine runs on 10 hits in 3.2 innings.

Haley went 2-for-3 with two runs scored for the Lady Rams.

Philadelphia heads to Florida for its spring break trip that begins on Sunday, March 11 with games against Southern Connecticut and Bridgeport in Clermont.