DETROIT – The No. 24 Grand Valley State softball team split a doubleheader against the Wayne State Warriors on the road Sunday (April 10). The Lakers dropped a pitchers' duel, 1-0, in 10 innings in the opener then bounced back with a 13-11 win in game two. The Lakers are now 26-5 on the season, having won nine of their last ten games, and are 11-3 in GLIAC play. GVSU will continue their road trip next Friday (April 15) when they visit Northwood at 3 PM.
 
Hannah Beatus allowed one unearned run in 9.2 innings in the opener, but suffered the loss (12-2). She allowed seven hits and struck out 12 without walking a batter. The lone run came after the international tiebreaker rule put a runner on second to start the 10^th inning, Wayne State bunted the runner to third, then – after a strikeout – a wild pitch kicked just far enough away from Morgan Wagner behind the plate for the winning run to race home.
 
Neither team wasted any time getting the offense going in game two, trading four-spots in the first inning. The Lakers scored four more in the second and another in the third to open a five-run lead. But, back-to-back three-run innings from the Warriors in the fourth and fifth found the Lakers down a run with two innings to play.
 
The Lakers responded with their third four-run frame of the game on a two-run single by Morgan Spicer then a two-run homer from Wagner; her third of the season. Spicer drove in three runs in the win. Seven Lakers had multi-hit games and both Lydia Goble and Bailey Thatcher had three hits in the game with Goble doubling twice. Joanna Cirrincione hit her first career home run in the second inning.
 
Ashley Platek (W, 4-1) allowed one run in 2.1 innings of relief to allow the Lakers to regain, then keep, the lead late. Eight of the 11 total runs scored by Wayne State were earned runs.