TOPEKA, Kan. -- The Washburn Ichabod softball team wrapped up its non-conference slate by splitting a doubleheader with Wayne State winning game one 6-4 before falling 5-4 in nine innings in the nightcap.

Game 1 - WU 6, WSC 4
Washburn won the opening game hitting a pair of home runs in the 6-4 win.
Washburn scored two in the second inning on a two-run homer by Sierra Kemp scoring Marina Quimby who reached on an error.
After Wayne State had a two-run homer of its own by Emily Chandler and added another run on a sac fly taking a 3-2 entering the bottom of the third.
Washburn came back with three runs on a three-run home run by Taylor Zimmerman scoring Ashley Ruder and Megan Stegman putting Washburn back up 5-3.
The Wildcats scored a solo run in the fith cutting the lead to 5-4, but a sac fly by Lacie Myers scored Quimby who reached on one of three errors by the Wildcats in the game.
Cassidy Merriman had two of the five hits for the Ichabods and Zimmerman drove in three courtesy of her three-run homer. Quimby scored two runs for Washburn.
Samantha Carson improved to 10-9 in the circle allowing three earned runs striking out three.

Game 2 - WSC 5, WU 4 (9 innings)
After Wayne State score a solo run in the top of the first, Washburn came back to tie the score in the bottom of the frame on an RBI single by Taylor Zimmerman scoring Ashley Ruder who led off the game with a single to shortstop.
In the second, Haylee Marsteller singled down the left field line sending Sierra Kemp home from second putting the Ichabods up 2-1.
After the Wildcats tied the score at 2-2 with their at bat in the top of the third, Washburn regained the lead with a solo run on an RBI single by Sierra Kemp scoring Merriman who led off the inning with a single.
In the fifth inning, the Wildcats tied the score at 3-3 with a sac fly.
Neither team scored in the sixth and seventh innings. In the eighth after Katelyn Wobken was placed on second and on Emily Chandler's single to right, Quimby gunned Wobken down at the plate halting the scoring opportunity for the Wildcats. Quimby ended the at bat for the Wildcats with an over the should grab to end the inning.
In the bottom of the eighth, the Ichabods hit into a double play going shortstop, first base to third base emptying the bases and a ground out ended the inning.
For the Wildcats in the ninth, they scored two times to go up 5-3. 
Washburn got one back in the bottom of the ninth on an RBI single by Ashley Ruder, but stranded two on base coming up one run short in the 5-4 loss.
Ruder led the Ichabods with three hits and Sierra Kemp, Lacie Myers and Haylee Marsteller each had two hits.
Ashley Wills pitched all nine innings for the Ichabods striking out three allowing three unearned runs.

Washburn returns home next weekend to wrap up the regular season starting with a doubleheader on Friday against Missouri Western hosting the Griffons at 2 p.m.