Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 The Dominican University softball team split on Thursday morning, falling 3-2 in dramatic fashion to the Wilmington College Lady Quakers after Emily Mahoney (Crystal Lake, Ill.) dominated the Wittenberg University Tigers, tossing a complete-game, one-hit shutout in a 4-0 win for the Stars.

Mahoney carried a no-hitter into the bottom of the seventh before the Tigers' Emily Ervin reached on a bloop single that landed in front of the second base bag. After a Dominican error, Mahoney struck out the next three hitters to preserve the victory.

Mahoney struck out 11 in the winning effort and improved to 4-1 on the year while lowering her earned run average to 3.71.

Dominican provided Mahoney all the offense she needed in the first, ripping three RBI singles including one by Mahoney herself. The Stars then added an insurance run in the top of the fifth when Armani Procter (Chicago, Ill.) singled to score Mahoney.

Sara Hausl (St. Charles, Ill.) and Allie Evans (Greenwood, Ind.) rapped out two hits apiece for the Stars.

In game two, Haley Locher (Lisle, Ill.) continued the Stars' stellar pitching, allowing just two runs, one earned, to a powerful Wilmington lineup. Over four and two-thirds innings, Locher pitched around ten hits while striking out one and walking none.

Sarah Slouber came in in relief, surrendering just one hit the rest of the way, that a lead off double to Brooke Byrne to start the bottom of the seventh. Byrne eventually scored the winning run on a wild pitch after being sacrificed over to third.

The Stars managed just one hit in the loss, that an RBI single by Hausl that scored Andrea Pinarski in the fifth to tie the game at 1-1. Wilmington reclaimed the lead in their half of the fifth.

Pinarski then led off the top of the seventh with a walk, her third base on balls of the game, before giving way to Julia Smith (Bartlett, Ill.) who came on to pinch run. Smith eventually scored to knot the game at 2-2 on a sacrifice fly off the bat of Evans.

Slouber took the loss in the circle for the Stars, falling to 1-3 while Danielle Monnier improved to 5-0 with the win for the Lady Quakers.

Dominican closes out its annual spring trip on Friday, taking on Penn State Erie at 9:00 a.m. ET and then Northland College at 11:00 a.m.