LACEY, Wash. - The Northwest Nazarene and Saint Martin's University baseball teams split a conference doubleheader this afternoon in Lacey as the Saints won the opener 7-3 but the Crusaders took game two 6-4.

Game one boxscore: 7-3
Game two boxscore:  6-4

The Crusaders are now 15-11 overall and 4-6 in GNAC play while the Saints sit at 9-21 overall and 5-7 in league action.

SMU's Thomas DeBoer tossed a six-hitter and Mario Sanelli had three hits including a go-ahead single in the sixth to snap a 3-3 tie as the Saints won their opener.

Sanelli delivered a single through the right side to drove in Adam Hudspeth with the go-ahead run. The Saints added three more runs in the inning on a double by DH Travis Jones and an error. Two runs scored on the miscue.

DeBoer didn't walk a batter and fanned two in the nine-inning contest. Zach Steele and Charlie Gorzo led NNU with two hits apiece.

In the second game, NNU scored three runs in the second and added three more in the fifth going ahead 6-0 before the Saints rallied for four runs in their half of the fifth.

Ryan Brown, however, then came on to retire the final seven Saint hitters, two on strikeouts, to secure the win for Charles Pollock.

Derek Bettinson had two of NNU's seven hits.  SMU catcher Chandler Tracy, after going 2 of 2 in the opener, went 0 for 4 in the second game ending his streak at 17 games.