Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 NORFOLK, Va. – The Norfolk State softball team split a pair of two-run decisions during the first day of the 2014 Spartan Clash at the NSU Softball Field.

The Spartans manufactured a pair of runs, and junior Sommer Di Fulgo belted a solo homer as NSU downed Yale, 3-1. The Spartans could not follow up that win with another despite a season-high 11 hits, dropping a 6-4 contest to Wagner. NSU saw its record turn to 1-5 on the year.

Senior Jamie Schulle (1-2) helped NSU pick up its first win of the year by shutting down the Bulldogs. Schulle gave up five hits and one unearned run in all seven innings against Yale (0-2). Di Fulgo's leadoff homer in the fifth, a blast that easily cleared the center field fence, proved to be the game-winning run.

The Spartans added another run in the fifth when Yale first baseman Alex Lucas could not handle a grounder off the bat of sophomore Whitney Williams with two outs, allowing freshman Devon Bitler to score from second.

Williams drove in the first run of the day for NSU on a slow grounder to third with the bases loaded in the first inning with no outs. Yale starter Rhydian Glass (0-1), though, worked out of the jam by retiring the next two batters. Glass and reliever Lindsay Efflandt combined to give up just four Spartan hits.

Boyd then went 4-for-4 against Wagner and scored a pair of runs as the top 3 spots in the NSU lineup went 8-for-12 against the Seahawks (2-0).

The Spartans, though, could not take advantage, and Wagner did by scoring three runs in the final two innings.

After senior Kathy Cortez hit an RBI single in the first, a couple of errors on NSU allowed Wagner to plate a pair in the third. The Seahawks then returned the favor in the bottom half of the frame. Cortez hit a bunt single toward third, and Boyd scored when Wagner third baseman Kristen Matteoni threw the ball over the head of the fielder at first.

Williams grounded into a double play later in the inning to score another unearned run.

Brianna Tredway's solo homer tied the game up at 3-3 in the fourth, and her RBI single in the sixth gave the Seahawks the lead for good. Wagner added two more insurance runs in the seventh, while junior Alina Moriarty scored for NSU in the bottom of the seventh on a throwing error by Wagner shortstop Kelsey Parker.

McKaleigh Goodale (1-0) gave up 11 hits and four runs, one earned, in all seven innings. Moriarty and Cortez each had a pair of hits, while Moriarty also scored a pair of runs as well.

NSU faces La Salle at 3 p.m. on Sunday in the final game of the tournament.