SALEM, Ore. – The Corban University softball team split with the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds on day one of senior weekend. The seniors from both teams were honored after the completion of the second game. Senior southpaw Holly Gonzales threw a complete game in the first contest and earned a win, while fellow senior Kaycee Arase hit a homerun in the third frame.

The visiting team came out strong and recorded two hits in the first inning, scoring one. For the Warriors, Maddie Ogles, combined with a Thunderbird error, plated a run after savvy base running from Taylor Beasley advanced her to third during Ogles' at-bat. A hard-hit ball to deep left off the bat of Paia'Ala Wilcox-Molina got lost in the sun and scored both Madison Wyllie and Anastasia Iosia.

In the top of the third, UBC rattled the bats and scored three runs on four hits. Then, with two outs in the bottom of the third, senior Arase went yard to tie the game at four.

It was quiet at Warrior Field until the bottom of the seventh when Karla Calderon singled down the right field line, just in time for pinch hitter, Sarah Bradshaw, to homer to right to take game one in walk-off fashion by a final score of 6-4.

Gonzales went the distance for the Navy and Gold scattering nine hits and four runs in the contest, tallying her eighth win of the season.

Game two of the doubleheader began in favor of the Thunderbirds. In the top of the third, Mia Valcke homered scoring Avery Hilpert to take a 2-0 lead. Then Emma Dorval doubled to right and Hanna Hansen laid down a sacrifice bunt, moving Dorval to third. The Thunderbird shortstop later scored on a wild pitch taking the visitors to an early 3-0 lead.

UBC tacked on another run in the fifth and then held the Warriors scoreless throughout the remainder of the game.

Three seniors (Ogles [2 H], Wyllie [2 H, R], and Arase [2 H, RBI]) delivered multi-hit performances for the Navy and Gold.

The Warriors will take the field again tomorrow for another doubleheader against the Thunderbirds. beginning at 11 a.m.