Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 HILLSBORO – Kansas Wesleyan Softball split its doubleheader with the Tabor Bluejays on Wednesday at Bluejay Softball Field.
 
The Coyotes won game 1 10-9 in extra innings, but dropped a pitchers duel in the second game 1-0.
 
In the opener, the Coyotes took advantage of an error in the first inning as Hailey Summers reached on the miscue and then scored on Trenity Miller's double.
 
Tabor took a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the inning with a pair of runs.
 
In the third, the Coyotes regained the lead as Summers singled, Jenna Soule walked and then Keira Hammen brought in a run with a hit. Three batters later Briannah Kutschkau singled to bring in the go-ahead run.
 
Tabor scored five runs in the bottom of the fourth inning to take the lead back.
 
Back came the Coyotes to start the fifth. Hammen homered, Elli Han singled and Kutschkau reached on an error to set up pinch hitter Cadence Mallet's RBI single. Summers followed with an RBI single and after Soule singled, Hammen singled for two more runs as the Coyotes put six on the board.
 
Tabor added a run in the fifth, and the Coyotes held a 9-8 lead into the bottom of the seventh, but the Bluejays were able to tied it and force extras.
 
Miller drove in the game-winning run in the top of the eighth, and the KWU defense stepped up and got Tabor to go in order for the win.
 
Summers and Hammen had three hits each for the Coyotes. Hammen drove in four runs. Caitlyn Collier went all the way for the Coyotes allowing nine runs on 13 hits, improving to 8-7.
 
The second game was a pitcher's duel between Alli Mickelsen for the Coyotes and Madison Nelson for Tabor.
 
Neither team could push a run across until Tabor scored the only run of the game in the fifth.
 
Miller led off the KWU second with a hit, but the Coyotes couldn't capitalize.
 
KWU had two hits in the game.
 
KWU plays at Southwestern on Saturday.