ST. JOSEPH, Mo. -- Northeastern State wrapped their final softball festival with a split on Sunday, the RiverHawks fell 8-7 in eight innings to Minnesota-Duluth, and beat U-Mary 5-3 in St. Joseph, Mo.
 
Paige Gann homered for the 11th time this season with Jennifer Wolf (5-5) picking up her third win of the weekend in the afternoon contest against U-Mary. 
 
Gann's season total presently tops the MIAA this season and she is already one away from matching NSU's program mark which she set in 2015 as a freshman.
 
In the afternoon contest, the RiverHawks plated four runs in the second inning against the Marauders (6-19) with Gann opening the frame on a solo-shot.  Carlee Gann later scored NSU's second run on a single to bring home Haley Acrey.  Jessica Boone gave the RiverHawks a 4-0 advantage on a single up the middle.
 
In the next frame, U-Mary had a three run inning before Wolf settled in and sat down the next 11 batters down in order.   Jess Schuler gave the RiverHawks an insurance run in the sixth with two-outs for their fifth run.
 
Wolf allowed three hits in the win and saw two more than the minimum at-bats in the complete game.

The morning was a different story for the RiverHawks where four errors cost them a 7-2 lead on Minnesota-Duluth (16-7) heading into the bottom of the fifth where NSU allowed three unearned runs to score.

Northeastern State held onto their two run lead into the seventh where with one-out a RiverHawks fielding error gave extra life for the Bulldogs.  Three hits later, the game would be tied at seven and sent into extras.  

With the international tiebreaker going to effect the RiverHawks weren't able to capitalize on having runners on the corners with only one-out.  Instead, they struck out swinging twice to end the top of the eighth. 

Duluth, in the bottom half of the inning, with the runner placed on second moved the runner to third on a sac bunt, and their next batter ended the game one a sac fly.

The RiverHawks banged out 14 hits on the Bulldogs with Ryan Martin going 3-for-4, and Kaleigh Hinkle having a three RBI game and a home run.

Taryn Gray got the start and went 6 1/3 innings in the no-decision, Wolf picked the loss in relief.

Sunday's split sends the RiverHawks to 15-14 overall and they will open a six game MIAA home stand with Emporia State visiting on Tuesday.