Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 MINOT, N.D. – Minot State University softball played its most mistake-filled game during its current six-game home stand and it cost the Beavers as Upper Iowa snapped MISU's seven-game win streak, but Minot State rebounded for a win in game 2 to split a Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference double header Sunday at Herb Parker Stadium.

The Beavers (21-9 overall, 8-4 NSIC)  fell 5-3 after making a total of two errors in game 1 and struggled to just four hits, but MISU's Mindy Lorimor (Jr., P, Thurman, Iowa) shut out the Peacocks (11-17, 4-4) in game 2 4-0 for her 15th win of the season.

"Any time you can go out and get five out of the six you play in a week, you are going to be at the top of the league so we feel like it was a good week overall," said MISU head coach Bill Triplett. "But I don't think we played our best game in the first one. We played add-on really well yesterday (in two wins over Winona State), but we didn't do that in the first one, we never got the lead and never got things going overall."

Minot State fell behind early 3-0 as UIU's Lauren Marlinghaus hit a two-run home run in the top of the first inning to cap a three-run first for the Peacocks. The Beavers battled back to tie the game at three on a pair of home runs by Melissa Bell (Jr., C, Belgrade, Mont.). Bell hit her fifth HR in the third, a solo shot to left field and then walloped a two-run home run, her sixth of the year, in the fourth to right.

But the Peacocks scored two unearned runs in the top of the sixth to snap the streak.

In game 2, it was Minot State's turn to earn an early lead as Alyssa Cornejo (Fr., P/2B, Riverside, Calif.) smacked a solo home run to left center in the bottom of the first. While Lorimor didn't need the insurance runs, MISU made sure she could cruise as the Beavers scored an unearned run in each of the third and fourth innings and followed that by another solo home run, this time by Stacy Fournier (Sr., 3B, Langley, British Columbia), in the sixth.

"Getting that early run was big for us," Triplett said. "We put Cornejo in the third position as a test to see how she would handle it and she has some pop in that bat. We moved her there for the experience and she responded."

Lorimor was brilliant in game 2 as she struck out six, walked just one and allowed three hits over seven innings for third straight complete game on the weekend. She pitched 8 2/3 innings of shutout ball over the two games.

"She's just pitched really well for us and the team has confidence that we have our best defensive team behind her when she's in," Triplett said. "I think we were confident going into that one with her in the circle."

Fournier finished with two hits and two RBIs including the home run and a double. Rachel Burdette (Fr., P/UTL, Temecula, Calif.) added two hits and Cornejo and Jordan Grant (Fr., CF, Adelnato, Calif.) added a hit each for the Beavers.

Minot State is scheduled to finish its homestand with a pair of NSIC games Wednesday against Northern State at 2/4 p.m. The games are most likely going to be moved to Herb Parker Stadium.