BOLIVAR, Mo. - The Truman State Softball team pounded out 16 hits in the second game against Southwest Baptist to earn a split with the Bearcats on Saturday. SBU won game one 9-6 while the Bulldogs grabbed a 12-4 win in the finale.

Truman will be in Kansas City on Sunday to end the regular season against the Rockhurst Hawks.

Game 1: Southwest Baptist 9, Truman State 6

The Bearcats jumped on top 3-0 after one but the Bulldogs reeled them back in with two in the third on a triple by Emma Walbert and a sac fly from Kayla Quanstrum.

The Bulldogs vaulted on top with a four-spot in the fifth with Quanstrum knocked a grand slam over the fence to put Truman up 6-3.

A pair of walks, an error and two singles brought SBU back to within one in their half of the fifth. Following a pitching change, a bases clearing double put the Bearcats back in front. 

Truman left the bases loaded in the sixth without denting the scoreboard and went quietly in the seventh 1-2-3 to fall 9-6.

Game 2: Truman State 12, Southwest Baptist 4

Emma Walbert went 5-for-5 with two runs scored and Ellie Weltha drove in six runs as the Bulldogs won convincingly 12-4 in the nightcap. The five hits by Walbert matches a school single-game record that was shared by Christen Belcher at Washburn in 2008 and Stacy Brazzle against Southern Indiana in 1993.

Truman fell behind 2-0 after single runs in the first two frame but got things going in the third. Brieanna Klein reached via one of six errors committed in the two games by the Bearcats and would move up to third on a double by Maria McGonegle.

Lauren Bowman reached on an error allowing Klein to score and third error in the inning on a groundout by Sydney Parkerson allowed McGonegle to tie things up.

The Bearcats went back up 3-2 on a solo home run in their third inning. 

Cameryn Patterson singled to tie things back up in the fourth and McGonegle's groundout gave Truman the lead they would not surrender. Weltha plated two with a double to left putting Truman up 6-3.

Skipping ahead to the sixth, Weltha, in her next at bat, belted a three-run homer to center to extended the lead out to 9-3. In the seventh, Lauren Stade singled in a pair and Weltha singled up the middle to make it 12-3. SBU would tack on a single run in their final at bat. 

Nicole Havel went the distance to earn the win.