WESTMINSTER, Md. – McDaniel came out on the top side of a game-one pitchers' duel before Washington (Md.) countered to win a game-two slugfest and forge a split in Centennial Conference (CC) softball action on Saturday.

The Green Terror (12-9-1, 6-1-1 CC) took the opener 2-1 before the Shorewomen (16-14, 5-3 CC) snapped McDaniel's nine-game unbeaten streak with a 9-7 win in game two.

Payton Lewis (Valrico, Fla./Durant) reached base in her first seven plate appearances of the day for the Green Terror, recording five hits and two walks. She also drove in three runs.

Erin Spinden led Washington with four hits, notching a pair of hits in each game.

McDaniel struck first in the opener. Stacie Maring (Woodbine, Md./South Carroll) drew a walk to lead off the bottom of the first before Lindsey Miller (Gettysburg, Pa./New Oxford) and Lewis recorded back-to-back hits to center field for a 1-0 lead.

Jamie Weisser (Chappaqua, N.Y./Horace Greeley) had faced just one over the minimum through four innings before Spinden doubled to deep right field to lead off the top of the fifth.

An error on the ensuing sacrifice attempt allowed her to score and tie the game at 1-all.

Lewis drove a single to the gap to lead off the sixth before pinch-runner Roxana Aviles (Manassas, Va./Osbourn) moved to second on the sacrifice bunt.

Olivia Kipe (Manchester, Md./Manchester Valley) drove a shot to the fence in left-center to break the tie.

Valerie Lamb (Miami Gardens, Fla./Miramar) allowed a two-out infield single but Lewis threw out the runner on a ball in the dirt to end the game and give Lamb her first save of the season and Weisser her fifth win in the circle.

Lewis had three of the Green Terror's five hits in the opener.

Allyson Meil led off the nightcap with an infield single before a sacrifice and Elaina DiPrimio double staked the visitors to a 1-0 lead.

A Spinden single and fielding error pushed the lead to 3-0.

Maring, Miller and Lewis all singled to lead off the bottom of the first to make it a 3-1 game with runners at the corners.

Tayler Hishon (Fort Lauderdale, Fla./St. Thomas Aquinas) followed with a sacrifice fly to score Miller and Lewis also took second with heads-up baserunning.

A Kipe single scored Lewis to tie the game before a walk and error loaded the bases. A Haley Michael (Oldsmar, Fla./East Lake) sacrifice fly scored Kipe for a 4-3 lead.

The first three McDaniel hitters reached in the second before Milly Kawabata came on in relief and got a pair of strikeouts to help leave the bases loaded.

An error, Maddie Bennett double and Spindin single retied the game in the third. With runners on the corners, the Green Terror elected to throw through and retired the runner at second for the second out but Bennett was able to beat the return throw for a 5-4 lead.

Michael walked with one out in the third before a pair of errors tied the game.

With two outs and the bases loaded, Hishon laced a single up the middle to score one run but the second runner was called out at the plate to keep it a 6-5 game.

An error and Bennett double in the fourth keyed a three-run frame that gave the visitors an 8-6 lead.

The teams traded runs in the fifth but McDaniel could not muster a run in the sixth or seventh, leaving the final three of its 13 runners on base.

Maring, Miller, Lewis, Hishon and Megan Coyle (Las Vegas, Nev./Bishop Gorman) all had two hits in game two.

McDaniel returns to action at home against York (Pa.) on Sunday. The first game of the doubleheader begins at 1 p.m.

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