SOUTH EUCLID, Ohio -- Notre Dame split with Urbana on Sunday, with each side earning a run-rule victory on a warm sunny day at Campus Field. (Gm-1 | Gm-2)

The Falcons (10-16) won the opener, 11-3. Urbana (7-21-1) earned a 13-3 victory in the second game.

In the opening game, Notre Dame scored a solo run in the first inning and two in the second to take a 3-0 lead. That lead would hold up for pitcher #Meredith Harbarger# until the fourth, when Urbana scored three runs on a double and back-to-back home runs by Tami Lasley and Tiena Steele.

Harbarger was then lifted for Alyssa Lancaster. NDC countered with two runs in the bottom of the fourth to take a 5-3 lead. #Kim Lennox# knocked in both of those runs with a clutch two-out single.

In the fifth, the Falcons reached the run-rule eight-run lead with six runs. Charisse Colston and Michelle Dykes each hit three-run home runs in the frame.

Lancaster got the final four outs in the game without allowing a base runner. She fanned two. Harbarger allowed four hits and three runs in her 3-2/3 innings of work.

NDC outhit Urbana, 14-4, in the opener. Mallory Harder collected three of the Falcons' 14 hits -- she went 3-for-3 with one RBI.

The nightcap was all-Urbana. The Blue Knights plated four runs off NDC starter #Christine Camp # who was lifted in the third after the Blue Knights had launched what would be a revolving-door, seven-run rally. That seven-spot put Urbana up 11-0.

Notre Dame didn't collect its first hit until the third. In that third frame, the Falcons managed three unearned runs off a UU error. The Blue Knights scored two in the fifth and held NDC scoreless in the fourth and fifth to volley with their own run-rule victory, theirs by a final of 13-3.

Urbana banged out 16 hits in the second game, and their 13 runs mark the most given up by the Falcons in a single game this season.

Mallory Harder had four hits on the day to lead the Notre Dame offense.