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Issue date: 4/21/09 Section: Sports

Melissa Negrete delivers a pitch during game one on Friday. (Valerie Loseke/The Gateway) [Click to enlarge]

UNO catcher Kristi Meneely tags out Missouri Western's Shannon Pivovar during the sixth-inning of game one on Friday. (Valerie Loseke/The Gateway) [Click to enlarge]

The No. 19 Mavericks split a doubleheader at home Friday with No. 25 Missouri Western to improve to 33-10 overall, and 7-3 in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association.

Sloppy play plagued UNO in the first game as the Mavericks committed four errors and fell behind 6-0 before scoring in the fifth inning.

Sophomore Lindsey Slocum ignited a brief Maverick rally in the bottom of the fifth inning when she blasted a solo home run. Junior Jenna Dell followed with a two-run single to narrow the gap to 6-3. The Mavericks grounded out to end the inning. Missouri Western added an insurance run in the top of the sixth inning to win 7-3.

Junior Melissa Negrete picked up the loss and fell to 13-5 on the season. Negrete gave up four earned runs on eight hits in four and two-thirds innings of work.

The Mavericks bounced back to win the second game 6-2. Slocum picked up the win after scattering seven hits over five innings. She allowed one earned run and struck out five, improving to 11-1 on the year.

With the Mavericks trailing 2-1 in the bottom of the fourth inning, junior Kristin Wellwood crushed a two-run home run to give UNO a 4-2 lead.

Dell and sophomore Alli Hukill came up big in the fifth and sixth innings, with Dell knocking a RBI double in the fifth and Hukill going deep with a solo home run in the sixth.

Sophomore Beth Haley entered in the sixth inning and pitched two scoreless innings. She allowed only one hit to earn her second save of the year.

The Mavs will close out the regular season with four MIAA doubleheaders on the road. UNO faces Pittsburg State on Tuesday. First pitch is set for 1 p.m.

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