ORANGE, Calif. - Pacific Lutheran split a pair of non-conference softball games with host Chapman University on Monday, the Lutes winning the opener, 6-2, and the Panthers taking the shortened second game, 2-1.

The Lutes are now 2-3 after their first of two trips to California, while Chapman finally got on the field after having a couple of rainouts. Today's second game was shortened to five innings because the PLU team had to leave for the airport to catch its flight back to the Northwest.

PLU managed only four hits in the first game but took advantage of five walks and five Panthers errors. Amber Roberts led the Lutes with two hits, two runs scored and two runs batted in. Stacey Hagensen hat a hit, drove in a run and scored a run, and Jackie Martinez had the other hit and also scored a run.

The Lutes scored twice in the first on only one hit, Hagensen's RBI single, and a Chapman error. Katie Hanten drove in the second run with a ground out.

Martinez got her single in the second and eventually scored on a Roberts ground out. The Lutes got two more in the fifth on a hit and two errors, and they scored their final run in the sixth on Roberts' second hit and two more Chapman miscues.

Martinez pitched the first four innings to improve her season record to 1-1. She allowed three hits, two runs, one earned, while walking two and fanning one. Ramona Lorton pitched the final three innings, allowing a pair of hits and striking out three, to get her first save of the season.

For the second time this season, Hagensen was the hard-luck losing pitcher for the Lutes. She allowed the two runs on four hits while walking one and striking out one. PLU managed just two hits in the game, one each by Roberts and Hagensen. Roberts scored the team's only run when she reached on a leadoff error, stole second, advanced to third on a ground out and then scored on Hagensen's sacrifice fly.

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