The Northwestern College softball team concluded its 2010 season with a doubleheader split against Concordia in GPAC softball action played Saturday afternoon. Concordia won game one 3-0 but NWC came back to win the nightcap 4-1. The Red Raiders and first year head coach Stephanie Kuhl end the season in 12th place in the GPAC with a 5-19 record.
Game one featured a pitchers' dual between Concordia starter Nicole Sempek and Raider starter Kami Kuhlmann. Kuhlmann (4-13) pitched a complete-game four hitter and gave up three unearned runs, striking out three. The visiting Bulldogs scored a run in the second inning and added two insurance runs in the seventh to complete the scoring. Sempek (21-7) earned her GPAC-leading 21st win of the season, giving up just one hit, one walk and striking out five. Sara Curry broke up the no-hit bid with two outs in the seventh inning with a single and Rachel Harris reached base on a first inning walk.
Northwestern picked up a 4-1 win in game two to earn a split. Jessica Hooper pitched a complete-game four hitter, striking out three, to improve her record to 4-12 this season. 
Offensively, the Raiders totaled 12 hits off Sempek (21-8), led by five different player who had two hits each. Both Harris and Kuhlmann went 2-for-4 while Ashley Evans, Chelsey Ulfers and Hooper all went 2-for-3.
The Raiders broke a scoreless tie in the fifth with a pair of runs on two hits. Hooper singled and scored off an RBI triple by Harris, who scored off a Concordia error. Leading 2-0, Northwestern added two insurance runs in the sixth. Evans and Ulfers hit one-out singles and later scored off RBI singles by Hooper and Heidi Esdohr.
Concordia scored its lone run in the seventh off a solo home run by Clarissa Eloge.
Northwestern ends the season with a 9-31 record.
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