Hadley May's grand slam in the top of the seventh inning in the first game Tuesday at Shenandoah erased a sixth-inning rally by the hosts and gave Mary Baldwin a 6-4 victory.  In the nightcap, the Hornets scored three runs in the first inning with the help of a couple of MBU errors, then gradually pulled away for an 8-1 victory and a split in the non-conference doubleheader.

MBU jumped on top in the first inning of the opener when Leanne Rankin raced home on an Allison Crum base hit.  The score remained unchanged until the bottom of the sixth, when Shenandoah put four on the board on three hits and error.  The Fighting Squirrels answered with five runs in the top of the seventh on May's bases-loaded blast, followed by an Emily Hall pinch hit RBI single for an insurance run.

May reached base safely three times in four plate appearances while Reagan Frazier had three hits in MBU's 10-hit attack.  

In the nightcap, Shenandoah scored three times on two hits, a walk and two MBU errors for the early lead.  The Hornets then added single runs in the third and fourth innings before adding three more in the fifth to build an insurmountable lead.  The Fighting Squirrels scored their only run in the fourth when May led off with a double and eventually scored on Rachel Thompson's two-out base hit to right field.

The Fighting Squirrels (3-5) return to action with another non-conference twinbill Thursday (3/14) at Eastern Mennonite University (2 p.m.).