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LACEY (Apr. 28) -- Home runs by junior Jill McDaniels (Walla Walla) and sophomore Dallas Maupin (Ellensburg/Kittitas HS) were not enough for the Central Washington University to overcome 25th-ranked Saint Martin's University in a 7-5 loss in game one of a softball doubleheader on Sunday afternoon. The Wildcats then lost to the Saints, 12-4 in five innings, to wrap up the regular season.

CWU will take a 19-18 overall record and a fourth-place finish in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference standings (13-11 GNAC record) into the inaugural conference tournament beginning this Thursday (May 2), where the Wildcats will face top-seeded SMU (36-13) at 2:30 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time (1:30 p.m. Pacific). The four-team tournament is a double-elimination event spanning Thursday through Saturday.

GAME ONE: Saint Martin's 7, CWU 5
McDaniels scored the Wildcats' first two runs, reaching on a hit by pitch in the fourth and homering in the sixth, but a four-run bottom of the sixth inning by Saint Martin's proved to be the different in the Saints' 7-5 win.

SMU scored three runs on four hits in the bottom of the first inning to take an early lead, but CWU chipped away with the single tallies in the fourth and sixth. Freshman Andrea Hamada (Walla Walla) drove in McDaniels with a double in the fourth to open the Wildcats' scoring, while McDaniels' two-out home run in the sixth made it a one-run contest.

Saint Martin's scored four times in the bottom of the inning to extend the lead to 7-2, but CWU didn't go down without a fight. Maupin, batting as a pinch-hitter in the top of the seventh, hit her first career home run over the left-field fence to score a pair of runs, and McDaniels later drove in another run with a RBI single but was stranded on first base to end the game.

McDaniels and Hamada both went 2 for 3 as CWU finished with seven hits. Saint Martin's finished with 10 hits but scored just three earned runs against Wildcat junior pitcher Maria Gau (Woodinville).

GAME TWO: Saint Martin's 12, CWU 4
The Wildcats took a 4-3 lead into the bottom of the fifth, but Saint Martin's erupted for nine runs while getting out just once as the Saints claimed a mercy-rule victory.

Each team scored once in the first inning, with McDaniels again delivering a RBI for the Wildcats to start the scoring. Saint Martin's countered in the bottom of the inning with one run, and then added single tallies in the third and fourth for a 3-1 lead. CWU regained the lead with a three-run fifth inning, however, on a RBI double by McDaniels and then a two-run single by senior Elena Carter (Olympia/Black Hills HS).

The Wildcats' lead was short-lived, as Saint Martin's racked up nine runs on eight hits in the bottom of the inning, with home runs by Taviah Jenkins (two-run) and Joslyn Eugenio (three-run) serving as the big hits in the frame. The round-tripper by Eugenio was the final pitch of the game, as it pushed the margin to eight.

CWU finished with 12 hits in the nightcap, with five different players tallying two hits each. Lacey McGladrey went 4 for 4 from the leadoff spot for Saint Martin's, while Eugenio added three hits.