FREDERICK, Md.--The Hood College softball team (6-20) earned a split with the Gettysburg College Bullets (13-7) Tuesday, dropping the opener 12-1 in six innings before bouncing back to take the nightcap, 5-2.

The Blazers and Bullets were engaged in a tight 1-1 battle through the first five innings of game one, but Gettysburg plated 11 runs over the fifth and sixth innings to secure the win.

Hood jumped on top in the bottom of the first on an RBI-single to left by Amy Hagerdon. Gettysburg was quick to respond in the top of the second, as Abby Ferguson plated Catrina DelGais on a sacrifice fly to left.

The Bullets batted around in the fifth, tacking on six runs on five hits and a pair of Blazer errors. Then one inning later, Gettysburg sent nine hitters to the plate once again and struck for five more markers. Starter Lanie Parr retired the Blazers in order in the bottom half to nail down the victory for the visitors.

Hagerdon finished with a two-hit game while Casey Dunn and Jackie Wenzel collected Hood's other two base hits.

In the nightcap, the Blazers touched Gettysburg starter Taylor Snyder for five runs on 11 base hits. Hood plated three runs in the bottom of the second thanks to a two-run double by Emalie Stroup and an opposite field run-scoring single by Brittany Sabol.

DelGais got one back for the Bullets in the top of the fourth when she belted a solo homerun over the leftfield fence. But Hood starter Bridgette Ringley settled in after surrendering the dinger, allowing only three Gettysburg baserunners the rest of the way.

In the bottom of the fifth, Kelly Gafner plated Kandie Glenn on a sacrifice fly and Sabol drove in another run with a bloop single to right.

The Bullets actually had a chance to tie the game in the top of the seventh after Ferguson singled and Joy Hallfors walked to bring the tying run to the plate (Caitlin Bay). But Ringley got Bay to ground out to Dunn at second to lock up the win for Hood.

Ringley went the distance to earn the win in the circle, picking up five strikeouts and allowing just five hits along the way. Hagerdon, Sabol, Ringley and Stroup all laced a pair of hits in the nightcap.

The Blazers next host Frostburg State University Thursday in a Capital Athletic Conference doubleheader beginning at 3 p.m.