The Dominican University softball team ran their season-long winning streak to eight games with a 6-2 win in eight innings in game one of a Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference (NACC) doubleheader with Edgewood College on Sunday afternoon before seeing the streak snapped on a walk-off single in a 6-5 loss in game two.
 
With the split, the Stars move to 16-6 on the season and 10-6 in conference play with three series to play in regular season action.  The Stars will travel to Aurora and Wisconsin Lutheran this week before closing out the 2018 regular season next Saturday when the Alverno College Inferno visit the Stars at the Ballpark in Rosemont.
 
Game One: Dominican 6, Edgewood 2 (8 Inn.)
 
The Stars broke a 2-2 tie with four runs in the top of the eighth inning en route to a 6-2 win behind a complete-game effort in the circle by lefthander Sydney Kuderna.  The Stars' junior pitcher picked up a two-run double in the eighth inning rally as the Stars extended their season-best win streak to eight games.
 
Freshman Julia Orozco went 2-for-3 in the win and led off the eighth with a walk.  Katie Fredrick and Cecilia Winters McCarthy collected infield singles to load the bases before Jacadi Rivera plated Orozco with a single to center ahead of Kuderna's two-run double to left.  Rivera later scored when Marissa Burns laid down a sacrifice bunt.
 
Kuderna then nailed down the victory, getting Edgewood's Jordan Anderson to ground into a 6-4-3 game-ending double play after the Eagles put runners on first and second with one out.
 
Kuderna limited the Eagles to two runs on eight hits while striking out two and walking none.  The Naperville native helped her own cause, going 4-for-5 at the top of the Dominican lineup as the Stars managed ten hits in the win.
 
Game Two: Edgewood 6, Dominican 5
 
The Stars jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the top of the first before Michele Behrens entered the circle in game two. Gabi Alfaro blasted a 2-1 pitch over the fence in left-center with Burns aboard after Kuderna singled and scored on a wild pitch.
 
After Edgewood pulled within 3-2 in the bottom of the fourth, the Stars pushed the lead back to three on an RBI double by Ali Woitovich and RBI single by Orozco in the top of the fifth.  However, the Eagles answered back with three in the bottom of the fifth before walking off on Amanda Meister's RBI single with two outs in the bottom of the seventh.
 
Behrens did not factor in the decision, surrendering five runs on five hits and two walks over five innings before Kuderna returned to the circle. After tossing a 1-2-3 fifth, Kuderna surrendered an infield single to start the seventh before getting the next two hitters before Meister managed a single to right.
 
Offensively, the Stars picked up seven hits in the loss, including two for Alfaro who finished 2-for-2 with a pair of walks, two runs scored and two RBIs.