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URBANA, Ohio -- Notre Dame plated 21 runs in earning a game-two victory and a split at Urbana on Saturday.

The Falcons committed four errors and fell, 5-1, in the opener.  NDC then bounced back with its second 20-run game of the week in bludgeoning Urbana, 21-8, in the nightcap.

With the 1-1 day in Central Ohio, Notre Dame (16-18) closed out what was a busy week.  The Blue & White went 7-3 over five doubleheaders in six days.  Since starting the season off with four wins in their first 19 games, Notre Dame is now 12-3 since.

Urbana (15-23) had been just 2-9 over its previous 11 games, but the Blue Knights prevailed in the opener, scoring all of their runs over the first two innings of the game.

Game One
Sophomore Lauren Anderson held what had been a surging NDC offense to just one run on four singles, a double and a home run.  Anderson didn't walk a batter, nor did she collect any strikeouts.  But she was efficient in dispatching the Falcons with a complete-game effort.

Urbana plated a solo run in the first inning and then four in the second in taking a commanding 5-0 lead early.  NDC committed two errors over that five-run stretch, and starter Allysa Lancaster hit a pair of batters in the Blue Knights' four-run second.

Lancaster matched Anderson in going the route.  She yielded eight hits and did not walk any batters.  She struck out four in suffering her first loss of the season; she's now 6-1.

Notre Dame scored its lone run when Megan Turner homered to center leading off the sixth.

Game Two
The Falcons' dormant offense came alive in the second game.  NDC dented the plate three times in the first inning and three more times in the second.

The Blue Knights countered, however, against NDC hurler Ashley Harbarger.  Urbana scored three runs in the first and one in the second.  The home nine was trailing, 6-4, when they took the field in the top of the third.

In that third frame, Notre Dame sent 25 batters to the plate, as the Falcons' offense clubbed three different UU hurlers to the tune of 14 hits and 15 runs.  NDC had six extra-base hits in the decisive frame, including two home runs by freshman Jessica Bequette. 

Bequette had three hits in the innings -- a solo homer, an RBI single and a grand slam.  She had six RBIs in the inning.  The home runs were her first as a collegiate player.

Notre Dame closed out the five inning, run-rule victory having out-hit their hosts, 19-8.  NDC won the game despite the defense committing another four errors.

Earlier the week (Wednesday at Malone) the Falcons had scored 22 runs in a game.  The team is now averaging 7.5 runs per game since starting its 12-3 surge on March 28.

For the two games combined, Kelsey Coleman went 7-for-8, with a double and three RBIs.  Bequette went 5-for-7, with a double, two home runs and six RBIs.