LACEY, Wash. - The Northwest Nazarene softball team split a Great Northwest Athletic Conference doubleheader this afternoon at Saint Martin's, winning game one 10-7, but falling 3-2 in game two.

Joslyn Eugenio's RBI double in the bottom of the eighth earned Saint Martin's (6-13, 5-9) the 3-2 win, however, the Crusaders (3-11, 3-11) won the opener 10-7 as Catherine Lowery,Sarah Varady and Cara Duckworth led a 15-hit attack with three safeties each.

Eugenio's game-winning hit came right after Kristine Kaneshiro had been hit by a pitch to start the inning. Each team had six hits in the contest. Eugenio, however, was the only player with more than one. She also had singled in the first.

SMU had a 2-0 lead until the sixth. NNU, however, got single runs in the sixth and seventh on hits by Varady and Haley Hevern to force the extra frame.

Both of those runs were unearned off of Saint pitcher Amanda Arnzen, who walked three and fanned six in recording the victory.

In the opener, Northwest Nazarene built a 7-0 lead only to see SMU close to within one run in the fifth at 8-7. The Crusaders, however, scored twice in the sixth to build a three-run cushion and NNU pitcher Chelsey Anderson held on for the win.