KIRKSVILLE, Mo. - Monday's rescheduled doubleheader at Truman Softball Park pitted the Great Lakes Valley Conference's (GLVC) two best team ERA's against one another. McKendree won game one, 8-1, before Truman rebounded in the nightcap for a 5-0 victory and the split.

Truman is now 20-12 overall and 9-7 in the GLVC while McKendree sits at 26-11 on the season, including 12-6 in league play. Monday, the Bulldogs hit just .188 (9-for-48) as a team against arguably the league's best pitching staff with three of those hits coming from Alyssa Rivera (3-for-6). Rivera also notched one run scored, two doubles, two RBI, and five total bases.

In game one, Truman's lone run came in the bottom of the fifth when Rivera laced a double into the gap in right center and pinch-runner Kayla Quanstrum scored, but McKendree already led 5-1 at that point.

Lauren Dale (8-7) went the distance (11th complete game) and gave up eight runs, four earned, on 13 hits with only one walk and four strikeouts. That effort for Dale marked just the second outing in her last 11 in which she surrendered more than three earned runs in a game.

In the nightcap, The Bulldogs faced off against Miranda Gajewski, who boasts the fourth-best ERA in the GLVC at 2.03. The Purple and White tagged her for five runs on five hits including an RBI double from Rivera, Christa Reisinger scoring on a wild pitch and a three-run bomb from Jamie Fowle (pictured). That home run by Fowle is just the sixth that M. Gajewski has given up this spring.

Alyssa Hajduk (10-3) finished what she started for her fifth complete game and allowed just one hit, a single to right center in the fourth that hit off the glove of a jumping Brooke VunCannon. Hajduk struck out nine batters and walked 10 on 154 pitches.

Next up, Truman travels to No. 11 Indianapolis on Saturday for a doubleheader beginning at 11 a.m. central time.

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