Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 (QUINCY, Ill., March 12)- The McKendree University softball team split its first Great Lakes Valley Conference doubleheader of the season on Saturday at Quincy University.

The Bearcats are now 7-13 overall and 1-1 in the GLVC, and will travel to Kirksville, Mo., on Sunday to play Truman State University in a doubleheader at 12 p.m.

McKendree was unable to get its offense going in game one, scoring one run on three hits, to fall 5-1. The Bearcats trailed 4-0 in the top of the fifth when Erica Schuelke (Germantown, Wis./West Bend) hit a solo homer to cut the score to 4-1. The Hawks added another run in the sixth inning and held on to take game one.

Maci Ingram (Woodlawn, Ill./Nashville Community High School) fell to 2-5 and had four strikeouts in the loss, while Jamie Doggendorf (Dittmer, Mo./Northwest) had two hits to go along with Schuelke's solo homer.

McKendree only had five hits in game two, but scored six runs to cruise to a 6-1 win. A single by Brooke Gajewski (Kronenwetter, Wis./D.C. Everest) in the first inning scored Tylin Stephens (Blue Springs, Mo./Blue Springs High School) from second, and Hanna Branch (Kirkwood, Mo./Kirkwood) followed with a two run homer to give the Bearcats a quick 3-0 lead. Quincy scored a run of their own in the bottom of the inning to cut its deficit to 3-1, but it'd be all McKendree from there. Gajewski hit a two-run homer in the third inning to extend the lead to 5-1, and Kyla Haukap (Dawson, Ill./Buffalo Tri-City) scored on a bad throw by the shortstop on a when stealing third base to extend the lead out to 6-1.

Holly Magre (Festus, Mo./St. Pius X) improved to 4-4 and struck out nine in the win, while Gajewski led McKendree at the plate with two hits, including her two-run homer, three RBI and a run scored.