UND 3, UNO 0
UND 6, UNO 4

FARMERS BRANCH, Texas - The UNO softball team ended play at the Great West Conference Cluster with two losses at the hands of North Dakota, 3-0 and 6-4, on Sunday at Oran Good Park.

The losses dropped UNO to 13-12 overall and 3-3 in conference play. With regular-season conference play concluded, the Mavs earned the No. 2 seed in the conference tournament May 13-14, also to be played in Farmers Branch, Texas. Utah Valley earned the top seed with a 5-1 record at the GWC Cluster. Houston Baptist went 2-4 and will be the No. 3 seed after earning the tiebreaker over North Dakota, which finished 2-4 to earn the No. 4 seed.

In game one against North Dakota (10-23, 2-4), the Mavs were stifled by UND pitcher Emma Gronseth. UNO got just two hits off Gronseth, singles by Lindsay Redding and Emma Wright.

North Dakota scored two runs in the third inning and tacked on one in the fifth for the 3-0 margin. Kenna Olsen had a two-run single in the third, and Brittany Baker had an RBI single in the fifth.

Dana Elsasser (7-6) took the loss, throwing 4.2 innings and allowing five hits and three runs (one earned). Kat Barrow pitched 2.1 innings of relief and allowed one hit.

In the second game, North Dakota jumped out to a 6-0 lead through two innings and held off the Mavs' comeback attempt to take the 6-4 win.

Redding went 3-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored to lead the Mavs. Amber Lutmer had a double and two RBIs, while Tonya Peterson collected two hits.

The Fighting Sioux dinged up Ashton Hughes in the first inning, putting four runs on the board. UND recorded two more runs to begin the second inning and take a 6-0 lead. Barrow came on for Hughes and finished the game, allowing just two hits the rest of the way.

UNO battled back with three runs in the fourth to cut the deficit in half. Lutmer doubled with the bases loaded to score Redding and Peterson. Wright followed with an RBI single to score Lauren Larson.

In the fifth inning, Barrow scored from third on an RBI single by Redding. But the Mavs stranded two on base in the fifth and one in the seventh.

The Mavs will play their home opener this week, a doubleheader on Wednesday at 1 p.m. against Nebraska-Kearney at the brand new Westside Field at Westbrook.