AUSTIN, Texas – Summer Harper's two-run double in the fifth inning proved to be the difference as the Concordia Texas softball team split two games with No. 10 East Texas Baptist on Thursday.

In the first game, the Tornados and Tigers would be embroiled in a pitching duel as neither team scored in the first seven innings of the game.

East Texas Baptist would take the lead in the eighth inning with three runs, one earned, on two hits and a pair of errors.

Concordia Texas was unable to respond in the bottom half of the inning, as the Tornados fell 3-0 in the first game.

In the second game, CTX would waste no time, striking first with two runs in first inning on back-to-back RBI singles from Mycahla Howard and Haley Dennett.

Simone Langland, meanwhile, was dealing for the Tornados, allowing only two hits with four strikeouts through the first four frames.

In the fifth, the Tigers would hit a two-run home run to tie it up at 2-all. Concordia Texas would respond though in the bottom half of the inning.

With runners on first and second, Harper would come through with a double to right, scoring Howard and Brittani Whitten and the Tornados retook the lead at 4-2.

In their final at-bat, ETBU would push across a run to cut it to 4-3 and load the bases with only out.

Jorden Russell, who entered in relief of Langland in the sixth, would escape out of the jam though as Dennett made a diving grab for out number two and would induce a ground out to first to end the game as CTX held on for the 4-3 win.

It is the first top-ten win for the Tornados since March 26, 2017, when they knocked off the No. 6 Tigers on the road.

Up next, CTX will go for the series win when they take on ETBU in the rubber game on Friday at 4 p.m. from Tornado Softball Field.