BELLEVUE, Wash. – The UBC Thunderbirds split a doubleheader with the Northwest Eagles in Bellevue Tuesday afternoon, dropping the final conference game between the two this season, 4-3, before rebounding to take the non-conference finale by an 11-3 margin.

The T-Birds had already secured the home-and-home series victory with a pair of wins over NU last Wednesday at Collings Field as UBC remains at .500 overall along with a 10-8 conference mark with four weeks left in the Cascade Collegiate Conference regular season.


 
Game One: NU 4, UBC 3
 
After Nicole Salas brought in a run for the T-Birds in the top of the first, NU tied the game in its half of the inning.
 
Madisyn Leffle singled, stole second, and later scored on a squeeze bunt by Kayla Stanley.
 
The 1-1 score held up until the fifth inning when the Eagles posted three runs. Ashley Carter singled and scored when Leffle's grounder was thrown into right field, allowing Leffle to reach third. Stanley again executed the squeeze bunt to score Leffle for a 3-1 lead. Stanley stole second, took third on a wild pitch, and scored on an RBI ground out by Emily Barry.
 
UBC scored twice on RBI singles by Mia Valcke and Salas in the top of the seventh and had runners at first and second before Bella King induced a ground out to end the game.
 
King went the distance for her seventh win of the season.
 
Valcke had four hits for the Thunderbirds.


 
 
Game Two: UBC 11, NU 3
 
Northwest took a second-inning lead, 1-0, when Alyssa Maldonado singled and took second, third, and scored on three wild pitches.
 
Emma Dorval had an RBI grounder and Valcke produced an RBI double to give UBC a 2-1 lead in the third.
 
Northwest took a 3-2 lead in the fourth with Abby Blahut scoring on a wild pitch ahead of an RBI single by Leffle.
 
UBC took back the lead in the fifth with three runs, highlighted by a two-run double by Valcke.
Dorval added an RBI single in the sixth and UBC plated five more runs in the seventh, including home runs by Valcke and Shae Sever.
 
UBC got three hits each from Valcke and Olivia Malesku.
 
Sever picked up her fourth win of the season on the mound allowing just two hits with no runs while striking out four through three and a third innings of work.
 
The T-Birds are right back on the road this weekend when they visit Carroll College in Helena, Montana starting with a doubleheader on Friday, April 8.