kissimmee, fla. - concordia university's softball team split results in their first day of action at the rebel spring games in kissimmee, florida. They dominated ashland university 9-2 in their first action in of spring break before falling 2-3 to kentucky wesleyan in 10 innings with the international tiebreak rule in effect.

abby brundidge drilled out a two-run homer against ashland, her first long drive of the season. natalie mast led the team with three rbi, while katie anderson marked two singles and scored three runs in the win. stephanie schmikla gained her fourth win of the season (4-3), pitching the complete game.

the golden bears fought long and hard against kentucky wesleyan in their second game of the day, extending the dual into 10 innings, with the international tiebreak rule imposed in the eighth. Concordia fended off kwu through the first two extra innings, in which a runner is placed on second base to start the frame. Unfortunately, they were unable to capitalize on their own runner starting in scoring position either. In the 10th inning, kentucky wesleyan laid down a sacrifice bunt to advance the runner to third base. The runner came rushing home as a bloop single landed just over the pulled in infielders.

scoring for the golden bears in the 2-3 loss was anna bjorlin, coming home on a double by jamie lindboe. sami mattson put a single into left field to score lindboe later on. cassye mcmahon threw a complete game and took her first loss of the season (4-1).