Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 The Dordt Defender softball team split its Friday afternoon games with Mount Marty on March 28 and stand 4-2 in the GPAC with a 7-4 win and a 10-7 loss.

Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score

GAME 1
Mount Marty struck for an early run in the first game but Dordt answered with two runs in the second inning with Addison Stephenson Roy and Brooke Rul knocking run scoring singles.  A Chloe Kreuz solo homerun in the third inning extended the lead to 3-1 but the Lancers answered with three in the fifth inning and led 4-3 until the top of the seventh.

In the seventh Kreuz singled to tie the game at 4-4 and Annabelle Hensley's single put Dordt up 5-4 and Ashtyn Grissom's two-run homerun gave Dordt some insurance as the Defenders held on for a 7-4 win.

THE NUMBERS
Dordt | 7r | 10h | 4e
Mount Marty | 4r | 6h | 2e

Dordt Leaders
Annabelle Hensley | 3-4 | 1rbi
Addison Stephenson | 2-4 | 1rbi
Chloe Kreuz | 1-4 | 2rbi | win | 7r | 2bb | 7k
Ashtyn Grissom | 2-4 | 2rbi
 
GAME 2
Dordt played from behind most of the game and couldn't overcome the Mount Marty Lancers in game two of the doubleheader.  The Lancers scored three in the first and two in the third for a 5-1 lead with Brooke Rule's solo homerun in the top of the third accounting for Dordt's run.

Lauren Steenstra had a three-run homerun in the fifth inning to tie the game and Hensley's single in the fifth put Dordt up briefly 5-4.  The home half of the fifth proved to be the decider as the Lancers scored five runs on six hits and took a 10-5 lead.  Dordt countered with a pair runs on and error and a Rule sacrifice fly. Dordt stranded a runner in that inning and got a leadoff single by Kreuz in the seventh but the next three batters were retired without incident with Dordt dropping the 10-7 decision.

THE NUMBERS
Dordt 7r | 11h | 2e
Mount Marty | 10r | 13h | 1e

Dordt Leaders
Brooke Rule | 3-3 | 2rbi | 2r
Annabelle Hensley | 2-4 | 1rbi
Lauren Steenstra | 1-3 | 3rbi