Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 BETHANY, Okla. — Southern Nazarene picked up a Monday split with MidAmerica Nazarene falling 3-2 in extra innings in the opener before picking up a 6-4 win in the second game.
 
Southern Nazarene took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second of the opening game when Hannah LeBeau hit a sacrifice fly to left to score Kacey Acker. LeBeau then gave SNU a 2-0 lead when she ripped a single up the middle to score Sam Smith in the bottom of the fourth.
 
MidAmerica Nazarene though got a two-run shot to left center to tie it at 2-2 in the top of the fifth and held that through the seventh. In the top of the eighth, MNU pushed the runner from second (international tiebreaker) to third with a sac bunt and then got a Chelsey Streibich double to center to push across the go-ahead run and held on from there.
 
LeBeau  led the way for SNU as she went 2-for-2 with two RBIs. Kayla Wyatt (5-6) gave just three runs, two earned, on three hits. She struck out a career-high 11 in the loss.
 
The Pioneers struck first with two in the top of the first, but SNU got on back in the bottom half of the inning with a Megan Blevens sacrifice squeeze and then took the lead in the bottom of the second on a three-run shot to left, by Whitney Linder to lead 4-2. It was Linder's second home run of the year.
 
MNU picked got a solo home run to center in the top of the third to cut it to 4-3, but the Storm answered in the bottom half of the inning with a solo shot to center by Saydi Dowd, her first of the year, to put SNU back up 5-3.
 
Ashley Potter picked up her first win of the season as the freshman threw 2.2 innings of relief giving up just one run on three hits. Andee Frazier got the start and pitched in relief for Potter as she threw 3.1 innings, allowing three runs, two earned, on seven hits. Kayla Wyatt earned her first save of her career as she gave up just one hit and struck out two in the seventh.
 
Lindy Fluman went 3-for-4 in the second game with a run scored while Linder went 2-for-3 with three RBIs and a run scored.
 
The Crimson Storm now get set to host East Central, Friday and Saturday, for a four-game GAC series.