Hadley May, who entered her senior season already holding the school record for career home runs, opened the 2025 campaign at Guilford with three more homers, helping the MBU softball team split a doubleheader against the Quakers Thursday.

May, now with 28 career bombs, hit a three-run shot and a solo insurance homer in the first game, an 11-6 victory.  She added an insurance two-run blast in the sixth inning of the second game, but Guilford rallied with four runs in the bottom of the seventh inning, then scored the game-winner on a close play at the plate in the eighth inning, for an 8-7 decision over the Fighting Squirrels.

In the opener, May was 3-for-5 with two runs scored and five RBI in support of the pitching duo of Emily McCreary (1-0) and Reagan Frazier (1S).  MBU jumped out to a 9-1 lead early, but the hosts challenged with a five-run fifth inning before Frazier shut them down for the save.  Leanna Rankin, Allison Crum, McKenzie Tillman and Molly Thompson all contributed twice to MBU's 13-hit attack.

The nightcap, played under dark clouds that spinkled rain off and on throughout the contest, was a back-and-forth battle.  MBU scored three in the third, but Guilford bounced back to tie it in the fourth.  The visitors then scored twice in each of the next two innings before the host Quakers rallied in the seventh and won it in the eighth. Both teams had runners in scoring position seemingly every inning.

Catcher Emily Hall had a base hit in each of her first three trips to the plate while Rankin and May both had two safeties.

The Fighting Squirrels prepare for six games on their Myrtle Beach Spring Break trip, starting with single showdowns against Vermont State-Lyndon (noon) and Vermont State-Johnson (2 p.m.) on Saturday.