BRISBANE – The Humboldt State softball team split a doubleheader with the Academy of Art Sunday afternoon.  The Jacks winning the opener 7-4, but falling in game two 6-2.

The split leaves the Jacks with a 13-15 overall record.  The Urban Knights are 13-13-1.

Game One Box Score
Game Two Box Score

In the bottom of the first inning of game one, the Academy of Art used a hit batter ahead of a home run to take a 2-0 lead on Jacks' starter Gracie Perez.

The score remained the same until the top of the fourth.

With one out Courtney Hiatt hit a homer to left to cut the Urban Knights lead to 2-1.  Sammi Gilbert followed Hiatt with a single.  Felicia Viveiros then doubled to center scoring Gilbert.

Two batters later Nikki Ketteringham drove in the Lumberjacks third run of the inning.  Geneva Perrine then doubled in Ketteringham and Chrissy Stalf finished the scoring with an RBI single.  Through three and a half innings HSU led 5-2.

AAU's Alana Aweau hit a two run homer to center in the bottom of the fourth to pull the Urban Knights to within a run at 5-4.

The Jacks added two runs in the seventh and took the game 7-4.

Perrine led the offensive attack with three hits in four at-bats.  She drove in a run and scored another.  Hiatt (2-for-4, 2 R, 2RBI) was the other big bat for the Jacks.  Ketteringham, Stalf, Lindsay Warren and Viveiros each had a hit and an RBI.

Perez pitched 7.0 innings allowing eight hits and four runs and improved her record to 5-5.

In game two the HSU opened with a run in the first inning on a Gia Hampton sacrifice fly that scored Ketteringham.

The Urban Knights tied the game in the bottom of the inning and the it stayed tied until the fourth.

Nichole Parada, who was pinch running for Viveiros, stole second and then advanced to third on a sac bunt.  She came home on a wild pitch and gave the Jacks a 2-1 lead.

In the bottom of the fourth AAU took the lead for good scoring two runs on three hits and a Lumberjack error.  In the fifth the Urban Knights got a bases clearing double to increase their advantage to the winning margin of 6-2.

Vaneza Hoover pitched 6.0 innings allowing eight hits and six run, three earned.  She struck out five and gave up five walks.  Her record is now 6-8.

Hampton had two of the Jacks four hits.  Lindsay Warren and Ketteringham had the other two.