BELLEVUE – Northwest got solid pitching outings from Becca Rennick and Sydney Maurer in a doubleheader split with Eastern Oregon Friday.
 
Rennick allowed two runs over six innings of relief and struck out five in a 6-0 loss in the opener before Maurer went the distance, allowing two runs on five hits in a 7-2 win.
 
"We pitched pretty well today," said NU Head Coach Pam Fink. "We needed that complete game from Sydney and Becca gave us a chance in the first game. We couldn't get anything going offensively in the first game and that was a disappointment. It was good to see us hit a little better in the second game."
 
Eastern Oregon scored four times in the first inning of the opener, including a two-run home run by Jacie Howton.
 
A Haley Ebner sacrifice fly in the third and an RBI double by Taylor Dow in the sixth gave EOU the 6-0 lead.
 
The Eagles had four hits with Kayla Stanley, Nicola Fish, Jordan Dippel, and Sam Parisio getting singles.
 
Amanda Smith picked up the win, striking out five in the complete game.
 
The Mountaineers opened the second game with a 1-0 lead on an RBI ground out by Howton.
 
The Eagles took their first lead of the day in the second inning. Dippel walked, moved to second on a sacrifice by Parisio and to third on a base hit by Ashley Oswald. Dippel scored on a double-steal and Oswald came around later on an RBI single by Sammi Caron.
 
NU added two in the third on a two-run double by Deanna Johnson to make it 4-1.
 
EOU cut the lead to 4-2 in the sixth when Kayla Berg tripled and scored on a fielder's choice.
 
The Eagles got that run and two more back in the home half of the sixth. Fish was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to force in the fifth run, Stanley scored on an errant throw, and Fish scored on a wild pitch.
 
Northwest finished with nine hits, led by Stanley with a pair of doubles and Caron with two singles. Johnson, Alyssa Maldonado, Dippel, Parisio, and Oswald had one hit each.
 
The teams finish the series with a noon doubleheader at Bellevue High School on Saturday.