BELLEVUE – Northwest split a pair of blowouts with Warner Pacific Saturday, losing the opener 8-1 before reeling off a 12-2 win in the second game.
 
"We made the adjustments we needed, and I'm thrilled with the way we bounced back after the first game," said NU Head Coach Pam Fink. "We did a good job in the second game putting the bat on the ball."
 
The Eagles had just four hits in the first game, including two by Sammi Caron. Jessica Nunes had a triple, and Sam Parisio added a single.
 
After falling behind 2-0 in the first, NU got one of the runs back in the third inning on an RBI single by Caron.
 
Warner Pacific erupted for six runs in the fourth, the big blow being a grand slam by Devinne Amesquita.
 
Becca Rennick took the loss for Northwest.
 
The Knights scored their two runs in the first inning of the second game.
 
Northwest made it a 2-1 game in the second when Jordan Dippel singled, moved to second on a sacrifice by Parisio, stole third, and scored on a squeeze bunt by Palena Gomes.
 
NU broke out for five runs in the fourth. Parisio opened the inning with her second home run of the season. Ashley Oswald doubled, Caron was hit by a pitch, and Kayla Stanley had a bunt single before Nunes launched a ball on top of the batting cages' roof for a grand slam.
 
Stanley added an RBI single, and Nicola Fish produced a sacrifice fly to give NU an 8-2 lead in the fifth.
 
Alyssa Maldonado singled, stole second, and later scored on a sacrifice fly by Parisio for a 9-2 Eagle lead in the sixth.
 
Northwest pushed three more runs across in the top of the seventh on an error, an RBI single by Maldonado, and an RBI double by Dippel.
 
Warner Pacific loaded the bases with no one out in the bottom of the seventh, but Sydney Maurer induced a 1-2-3 double play and got the final batter on a fly out to get her first collegiate pitching win. 
 
Maurer went the distance, allowing one earned run.
 
Maldonado had four of NU's 13 hits in the game. Stanley and Dippel had two each, while Fish, Nunes, Parisio, Oswald, and Gomes had one hit apiece.
 
The same two teams meet again for a 1 p.m. doubleheader Sunday.