MADISON, Wis. – Edgewood College senior Rachel DeJongh picked up her 30th career win after throwing her fourth complete game shutout of her career in a much-needed win over CUW Thursday night at Ceniti Park. The Eagles won 3-0 in game one to keep their playoff hopes intact but then fell to the Falcons 10-2 in the nightcap.

With the split the Eagles are now just one game out of a tie for the sixth and final playoff spot in the NACC race. Edgewood College (14-18, 6-10) is behind a trio of 7-7 teams in Concordia Chicago, Marian and Wisconsin Lutheran with six league games remaining.

DeJongh, a Madison, Wis., native and graduate of Memorial High School, helped her own cause with an RBI single to right center field in the first inning to score Sabrina Maicke. Jackie Diesch picked up the only other run-producing hit of the game in the next inning after knocking in Alyssa Hickey and Grace Delleman on a single.

The Falcons didn't record a hit until the third and struggled to put together any sort of rally. They had a pair of hits in the third and sixth innings but couldn't get a runner to reach third base in either frame. The Falcons biggest threat actually came in the first inning when Maddie Zazas reached on an error, advanced to second on a groundout and took third on a wild pitch.

DeJongh struck out seven batters for her third-straight outing with at least seven punchouts while walking only one. Maicke wound up going 3-for-3 with a run scored while Jordan Anderson and Grace Delleman each went 2-for-3 in helping drop CUW's starting pitcher Melissa Perkins to 11-6 on the year.

CUW piled up 13 hits and the Eagles made four errors in the field in game two in the 10-2 loss. DeJongh again had an RBI single in the first to give the Eagles an early 1-0 lead but the Spartans would score one run in each of the next three innings.

Edgewood College was held without a hit from the second until the fifth, when Shannon Whitmus belted her second career home run with a bomb to left center field. The home run led off the inning while Alyssa Hickey and Jackie Diesch both picked up singles later in the frame but the Eagles couldn't push them across. Edgewood College then went down 1-2-3 in the last two innings.

Six different Eagles picked up a hit in the nightcap in Diesch, Maicke, Jordan Anderson, DeJongh and Whitmus. Whitmus' hit was the only one that went for extra bases. In the circle, Karlie Klossner received the loss after allowing two earned runs over 3.1 innings of work while Whitmus allowed four earned over the final 3.2.

The Eagles will play next on Sunday, April 24 at MSOE. The games will be played at MSOE Athletic Field in Milwaukee, Wis., and first pitch for the doubleheader is slated for 12 pm.