COLUMBUS, Ga. -- The Wabash Valley Lady Warriors softball team has already faced seven teams that are either ranked or receiving votes in an NJCAA national poll. 

On Saturday, as play continues in the NFCA Leadoff Classic here, they are about to face two more. WVC (3-8 on the season) plays third-ranked Florida Southwestern State (15-3) at 11:30 a.m. CST, after opening against eighth-ranked (Division II) Jones, Mississippi (11-4) at 9 a.m. 

On Friday, the Lady Warriors lost two of three games. They dropped a narrow 2-1 game to Chipola, Florida (16-10) before edging past 19th-ranked (Division II) Lansing, Michigan (0-3), 7-6, ending a six-game losing streak in the process. In the nitecap, 11th-ranked Seminole State, Florida (22-4) defeated WVC, 9-1. 

There were 22 games played on Friday at the South Commons. A total of 23 more games will be played on Saturday. There are 18 teams, scattered among all three NJCAA divisions, entered here. Seven teams finished with perfect records on Day One, including Chipola and Florida Southwestern State. 

Here is a recap of Lady Warrior games played on Friday: 

Chipola 2, Wabash Valley 1 

Chipola came from behind for the win, spoiling an outstanding game in the circle by Lady Warrior starting pitcher Demi Wolfe. 

Wolfe went the distance, allowing seven hits while striking out three in six innings of work. 

WVC scored once in the top of the first inning to take an early 1-0 lead. Kinsly Heichelbech opened the game with a line drive single to left field and scored on a single to center off the bat of Jayley Akers, who had two of the Warriors' five hits in the game. 

Chipola scored twice in the third inning then held off WVC the rest of the way for the win. 

Wabash Valley 7, Lansing 6 

The Lady Warriors came from behind twice to win in a game where all 13 runs came across the plate in the first four innings. 

After Lansing scored two runs in the top of the first inning for the early lead, WVC roared back with four runs of its' own in the home half of the first. 

Gracee Sullivan hit a three-run home run to left for the biggest blow of the frame, scoring Heichelbech and Abby Schreiner, who had both walked ahead of her. 

Kinley Edwards then hit a double to center, scoring Abbi Mocaby who had reached on a hard-hit ground ball up the middle to make it 4-2. 

Lansing scored two runs in both the second and third to get the lead back, 6-4.  

Again, Wabash Valley answered, with two runs in the bottom of the third to tie the game up at 6-6. Mocaby hit the second Warrior homer of the game, a two-run shot to left that also scored Akers.

Then, WVC pushed across what turned into the game-winning run in the bottom of the fourth. Kamille Johnson opened with a walk, followed by a double to left by Heichelbech that put the Warriors ahead to stay, 7-6. 

Starter and winning pitcher Lexi Burris blanked Lansing the rest of the way for the complete-game win. The Stars put baserunners on in each inning, but none earlier than with two outs. 

Burris allowed four runs on six hits. She struck out six batters. 

Seminole State 9, Wabash Valley 1 

The Raiders were too much in this one, scoring in all four at bats against WVC, which averted a shutout with a tally in the top of the fifth inning. 

The lone run came in on a sacrifice fly from Johnson, scoring Emma Robinson, pinch-running for Taylor Wilke, who doubled up the middle to lead off the fifth. 

Demi Wolfe hurled the first three innings, relieved in the fourth by Kyrsten White. 

The Lady Warriors made three errors in the game.