MARYVILLE, Mo. - The Northwest Missouri State University softball team managed to split a doubleheader with Wayne State College Tuesday at home.

Wayne State went extra innings to take the first one, 5-1. Northwest exploded for an 8-0, five-inning victory in game two.

Following today's doubleheader, Northwest is 21-26 overall and Wayne State is 29-20 on the year.

GAME ONE
Northwest and Wayne State battled through seven scoreless innings before the Wildcats were able to edge the Bearcats in the ninth inning.

Each squad was able to scratch across a run in the eighth inning to extend the contest to the ninth. In the ninth, the Wildcats tallied four runs to secure a 5-1 victory.

Bearcat starter Erika Gore tossed seven innings of shutout softball before she allowed an unearned run in the top of the eighth. Olivia Moyer relieved Gore in the ninth and was touched up for four unearned runs. Gore allowed five hits and struck out two batters as she lowered her season earned run average to 1.75. Moyer took the loss to drop to 2-6 on the season.

Northwest managed nine hits on the offensive side of the ball as Skylar Pieper and Lillie Filger contributed with a team-high three hits. Northwest recorded six stolen bases but could not get a run across in the first seven innings. Northwest had at least one hit in each of the first eight innings but left nine runners on base.

GAME TWO
Northwest pounded out 10 hits and Jadyn Streigle tossed her third shutout and eighth complete game of the season in an 8-0 Bearcat victory.

Streigle scattered three hits and struck out five batters as she moved to 9-8 on the year. Streigle gained her 32nd career victory and moved within one win of joining Northwest's career top-10 list for pitching wins.

Malia Cuevas, Riahn Pinkerton and Curstin Todd each had two-hit games to pace the Bearcat offense.

Pinkerton drove in the first run of the game in the second with an RBI-single to right center that scored Cuevas. Alexis Brown reached on an error that allowed Pinkerton to score for a 2-0 Bearcat lead in the second inning.

The Bearcats tacked on four runs in the fourth for a 6-0 advantage. Omara Love singled to center to have Pinkerton score her second run of the game and Todd scored her first. Skylar Pieper delivered a sacrifice fly to left field that brought in Brown. Cuevas reached on an infield error which allowed Love to score an unearned run.

Northwest clinched the win in the sixth inning on a two-run double to left center by Grace Lubben. Lubben's rip to left center plated Pieper and Love to end the game with the Bearcats leading 8-0.

NOTES: Northwest will close the regular season Saturday at Missouri Western ... the doubleheader will begin at Noon in St. Joseph, Mo. ... Lillie Filger leads the team with 64 hits and is tied for the seventh-most hits in a single-season in Bearcat history ... Filger has accumulated 210 career hits which is tied with Chantel Adams (2007-2010) for No. 7 on Northwest's all-time hits chart ... Filger leads the team in batting (.386) ... Filger has been credited with 21 multi-hit games this season and 69 in her career ... she posted her 18th career three-hit game ... Skylar Pieper has 44 multi-hit games in her Bearcat career, including 13 this year ... Pieper has tallied 10 three-hit games as a Bearcat ... Pieper stole three bases in the first game of the doubleheader.