ELKINS - The Davis & Elkins College Senator Softball program split a doubleheader with Ursuline College on Friday to earn a 3-1 series victory over the Arrows in Great Midwest Athletic Conference play. The Senators won game one 9-5 before falling in the finale 4-2.

After a pair of pitching duals on Thursday, the bats came alive in game one of the doubleheader, as the teams combined for 26 hits and 14 runs.

The Senators took the lead in the first on a Brittany Wade double to right center that scored Kelsie Millner. Sydney Turner then reached on an error that allowed Wade to score and give the Senators a 2-0 lead after one.

Ursuline would score two in the top of the third, but the Senators would quickly grab the lead back in the bottom half of the inning, as Wade scored Millner again, this time on a sacrifice fly.

In the fourth inning, with Alyssa Cairns and Katie Manson on base, Danielle Norton would hit a three-run homer to break the game open and give the Senators a 6-2 lead.

Manson would pad that lead with a two-RBI double down the left field line, scoring Samantha Smith and Morgan Tandarich in the fifth.

Ursuline would get three back in the sixth inning but the Senators answered with Turner's single to score Amy Fincham in the bottom of the inning. 

Sara Tobin pitched a scoreless seventh to secure the win.

Allie Lapallo tossed 5.2 innings to get the win, allowing five runs on 11 hits with a walk and a strikeout.

In game two, the visitors scored in the top of the first and never trailed. The Arrows would add another run in the third and then one in the fourth.

Wade broke up a no-hit bid to lead off the fifth inning, and later came around to score on a bases loaded walk by Katie Manson, but the Senators would strand the bases loaded.

The Senators would load the bases again in the sixth inning, but were unable to score any runs, stranding three runners for the second-straight inning.

Ursuline would add a run in the seventh and D&E would answer, as Smith scored on a fielder's choice grounder to second base by Cairns. 

D&E would later have two runners on, but was unable to move them home, stranding eight base runners total in the final three innings.

The Senators will return to action on Tuesday with a doubleheader against Anderson Broaddus at Joni Smith Field to complete the series with the Battlers. The teams split the opening two games of the series on April 5 in Glenville.