Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 LINCOLN, Calif. – Northwest tied the school record with its fifth consecutive softball win before settling for a split in the William Jessup Round Robin on Friday.
 
NU beat host William Jessup 12-7 before falling to Hope International 11-0.
 
The Eagles scored first in the opener when Paige Creasey singled home Sydney Maurer for a 1-0 lead.
 
Maurer added a sacrifice fly and Jamelah Lewis singled home two runs for a 4-0 lead in the second inning.
 
Jessup made it 4-3 before Olivia Brown produced an RBI double and three runs scored on Kayla Stanley's base hit to right field. Emily Barry added a sacrifice fly for a 9-3 NU lead.
 
The Eagles tacked on three more in the fifth on an RBI single by Creasey, a bases-loaded walk by Natalie Dimitrov and a wild pitch to score Creasey.
 
Dimitrov went the distance for the pitching victory.
 
NU had 14 hits in the game, led by Maurer and Creasey with three each. Madisyn Leffle, Barry and Lewis had two each.
 
"Nat pitched really well and we kept pushing," said NU Head Coach Pam Fink. "We were really productive 1-through-9 today in the first game. We faced two really good teams today and we learned from that second game to always be ready."
 
Leffle had two hits in the second game and Maurer added one in the loss. NU committed five errors in the game.
 
NU, 5-2, locks up with the same two teams tomorrow, facing Hope at 10 a.m. and William Jessup at 2.