Mary Baldwin picked up its first softball victory of the season when the Squirrels rallied for a 7-6 win in nine innings over Wilson College in the first game of Wednesday's doubleheader. The second game ended in a 3-3 tie as the contest was stopped for darkness after five innings.

The Phoenix took a 2-0 lead into the sixth inning of the opener, but the Squirrels pushed across two runs in the bottom half of the sixth to tie the score. Leanna Rankin led off the frame with a triple and Allison Crum put the Squirrels on the board with a sacrifice fly. Hadley May pulled the Squirrels even at 2-2 when she belted a solo homer, the first of her career.

The game went to extra innings and each inning begins with a runner being placed on second base.

Wilson put three runs on the scoreboard in the top of the eighth on Taylor Barker's three-run homer to take a 5-2 lead.

MBU fought back to tie the score. Marybeth Strickler's RBI single made it 5-3 and a run-scoring single by Rankin pulled the Squirrels to within one run, 5-4. With one out, May tied the score with a single, sending the game to the ninth inning.

After Wilson regained the lead with a run in the top of the ninth, the Squirrels pushed across two runs in the bottom of the ninth to take the victory. With Maisie Spivey starting the inning on second base, Keelie Sealock singled to put runners on the corners. Sealock stole second, putting two runners in scoring position. Olivia Gagne hti a grounder to short and Spivey beat the throw home and slid under the catcher's tag to tie the score. Strickler followed with a sacrifice fly to left, scoring Sealock and giving MBU a 7-6 victory.

Strickler and May were each 2-for-4 with two RBIs in the opener while Rankin was 2-for-4 with two runs scored.

The Phoenix held a 3-0 lead after two innings in the second game, but the Squirrels scored two runs in the third inning and one in the fourth to tie the score.

Gagne led off the third inning with a double and moved to third base on a groundout. After Rankin walked and stole second, Emily Hall scored Gagne with a sac fly for MBU's first run. An infield error on May's grounder allowed the second run of the inning to score as MBU pulled to within 3-2.

With two outs and no one on base in the bottom of the fourth, Gagne tripled and Stricker followed with a double, tying the game at 3-3.

Gagne, Strickler and Crun each finished Game 2 with two hits for the Squirrels.