Parkside softball earned a split against Northwood on Saturday afternoon at Case Softball Complex, falling in game one 8-0 but bouncing back to win game two 2-1 behind a strong pitching performance from Allison Hausl. With the game two win, the Rangers have now won six of their last seven games. Post-game, the team recognized the three seniors, Danica Bramschreiber, Kellie Fenza and Morgan Sikon.
 
GAME 1: Northwood 8, Parkside 0
The Rangers couldn't get anything going offensively against Taylor Wright, who held Parkside to just one hit while improving to 5-1 this season and moving her ERA to 1.04.
 
The Timberwolves jumped on top early, taking a 4-0 lead in the top of the first and moving it to a 7-0 lead after two innings. Morgan Moore came through with the team's only hit in the bottom of the second inning.
 
GAME 2: Parkside 2, Northwood 1
It came down to final batter, but the game ended on a runner getting thrown out at third base after trying to move up on a ball in the dirt. Hausl earned her second win of the season, finishing with the complete-game and allowing just five hits and one run with no walks and a season-high six strikeouts.
 
Jessica Crull hit her second home run of the season in the bottom of the second inning, this one being a shot over the left field wall to put Parkside up 1-0. Adrien Hall made it 2-0 Parkside in the bottom of the third on an RBI single that plated Kellie Fenza. Northwood battled back in the top of the seventh on Hausl, scoring a run on a double down the line to make it 2-1, but the runner thrown out at third ended the game.
 
Fenza finished 2-for-3 with a run while Hall went 1-for-2 with an RBI and Crull had the solo home run.
 
WHAT'S NEXT
The Rangers will host Lewis on Wednesday, April 17 at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. at Case Softball Complex. The game against Grand Valley State has been moved to Sunday, April 28 and will be Strikeout Cancer.