BELLINGHAM, Wash. – The Western Oregon softball team split Saturday's doubleheader at Western Washington, falling after a WWU comeback 6-5 in game one before a stellar start from Haley Fabian paced the Wolves in game two, 1-0. WOU moves to 23-18 on the year with the split and is now 10-10 in Great Northwest Athletic Conference play.
 
GAME ONE
Western Washington prevailed with five runs on four hits in the bottom of the seventh inning capped by a three-run, game-winning double from Makinlee Sellevold.
 
After the Vikings scored the game's first run in the bottom of the first, Western Oregon's two-out rally in the second inning gave them the lead. Mercedes Green drove in a pair of runs with a two-run homer, her first of the season, to left field after Zoe Clark kept the inning alive with a two-out bunt single.
 
The Wolves added two more runs to take a 4-1 lead in the fourth inning. A hit from Clark, a fielder's choice and an error on a Kelsie Gardner ball to shortstop loaded the bases with one out. Cheyanne Rimer singled into center bringing in Clark. The second run crossed after a WWU error at first base on a ball hit by Destiny Kuehl.
 
Rimer knocked in her second run of the game with two outs in the sixth inning with another hit to center field.
 
Sammi Cadwallader took the tough (7-3) for the Wolves allowing eight hits and six runs, five earned, in a complete-game effort. Rimer (2 for 4, 2 RBI), Jenna Kelly (2 for 4), Ashlee Lynch (2 for 4) and Clark (2 for 3, 2R) all had multi-hit games as the Wolves outhit the Vikings for the game, 12-6.
 
GAME TWO
Haley Fabian (10-7) tossed her second complete game of the series allowing six hits while striking out two in Saturday's shutout of the Vikings.
 
A scoreless pitcher's duel between Fabian and WWU's Sellevold extended into the sixth inning before the Wolves broke the seal on the scoreboard. Emma Alfonso led off the frame with a single and Rimer doubled with one out putting a pair of runners into scoring position. Destiny Kuehl wasted no time bouncing a ball through the left side of the infield, scoring Alfonso for the lead.
 
Fabian, in combination with great WOU defense, stranded Viking runners at third base in the third, fourth sixth and seventh innings to keep her shutout intact. Lynch made a stellar diving grab on a line drive in the fourth inning to save a run and Fabian induced two popups to shortstop with the tying and go-ahead runners on base in the seventh.
 
Each team had six hits in Saturday's second game with Kuehl (2 for 3, RBI) leading the way for Western Oregon.
 
UP NEXT
The Wolves close out their six-game in three-day road trip heading to Canada on Sunday to take on Simon Fraser. First pitch against the Clan in Burnaby is set for 12 p.m.