ORANGE CITY, Iowa-- The University of Jamestown softball team split a pair of games Saturday against Northwestern College to open the GPAC schedule, winning 8-3 in the opener and losing 7-3 in game two.

Jamestown (16-6 overall, 1-1 GPAC) is at Mount Marty (S.D.) University for a doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m. Sunday. Northwestern improves to 14-6 overall and 1-1 in the conference.

Sydney Prussia (JR/Detroit Lakes, Minn.) doubled in a pair of runs and Santina Zito (SO/Boise, Idaho), Katie Reisdorfer (JR/Fresno, Calif.), and Gracie Fisher (FR/Bemidji, Minn.) also had RBIs as UJ jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the first.

Jenna Remenar (FR/Vancouver, Wash.)'s two-run single in the top of the second extended the lead to 7-0, but the Raiders got two runs back in the bottom half and added another run in the bottom of the fourth to make it 7-3.

Zito scored on a throwing error in the top of the seventh for the Jimmies' final run.

Kat Miska (JR/Pequot Lakes, Minn.) (7-1) went the distance for Jamestown, allowing three runs on seven hits. She walked four and struck out six.

Kassi Ward (JR/Olympia, Wash.) was 3-for-4 and Prussia and Fisher both had a pair of hits.

An uncharacteristic six errors by the Jimmies in game two led to seven unearned runs in a 7-3 Red Raider win.

UJ trailed 4-0 going into the fifth, and got on the scoreboard as Morgan Geiszler (JR/Horace, N.D.) doubled in Kaydence Alvey (FR/Caldwell, Idaho). Northwestern answered with one run in the fifth and made it a 7-1 game with two more in the sixth.

In the seventh, Steph Cota (SO/Tucson, Ariz.) reached on an error and moved to second on a single by Geiszler. Mariah Wick (JR/Jamestown, N.D.) singled to load the bases, then pinch-hitter Katie Merchant (SO/South Haven, Minn.) followed with a single to score Cota. Geiszler was thrown out at home, but Wick moved to third on the play. Kassi Ward re-entered for Merchant and ended up at second after Jenna Remenar singled to score Wick. With two outs, Katie Reisdorfer singled to center and Jamestown had the bases loaded again. A groundout ended the rally and preserved the win for Northwestern.

Merchant (6-3) took the loss and was responsible for seven unearned runs on seven hits in 5 1/3 innings. She walked three and struck out two.

Geiszler rapped out three hits, including a pair of doubles.

Following Sunday's doubleheader, the Jimmies are back in action on March 24 at Minnesota State University-Moorhead.