SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Senior outfielder Shannon Fitzgerald (Santa Clarita, Calif./Valencia) and freshman pitcher Sydney Underhill (Temecula, Calif./Chaparral) pitched a complete game as the Monmouth University softball team defeated Portland State, 6-2, Sunday morning at the Gaucho Classic II. The Hawks also fell to Dartmouth, 5-1. The split moves the Hawks to 6-8 on the season, while the Vikings are now 3-19 and the Big Green is 5-8.

Fitzgerald also drove in two in the Portland State victory. Jill Freese (Oxford, Pa./Oxford Area) added three hits, including two doubles, to go along with two runs and two RBI's. Rachel Shotzbarger (Saugus, Calif./Saugus) and Kayleena Flores (Atwater, Calif./Buhach Colony) also added three hits apiece, while Vanessa Cardoza (Santa Ana, Calif./Ocean View) had two hits. Justene Reyes (Carson, Calif./Warren) chipped in with a solo home run.

Underhill allowed three earned runs on five hits and three walks in 10.0 innings pitched. She struck out four while holding opposing batters to a .147 average. Breanna Sniffen (Winter Garden, Fla./West Orange [St. Petersburg College]) pitched three innings against Dartmouth, allowing four runs, two earned, on six hits.

The Hawks struck first against the Vikings in the bottom of the third when Cardoza delivered a two-out RBI single. Monmouth tacked on four more runs in the fourth and another in the fifth. Freese's two-out, two-run double scored Flores and Shotzbarger in the fourth, before Fitzgerald added a two-run single to score Freese and Nikki Sandelier (Turnersville, N.J./Washington Township) later in the inning. In the fifth, Reyes gave the Hawks some insurance with a solo home run to left center.

The Vikings got a two-run triple from Aubrey Nitschelm in the seventh, but that was all Underhill would allow in closing out the victory.

Against Dartmouth, the Big Green jumped out to a 4-0 lead with three runs in the second and one more in the third. Katie McEachern led off the second with a home run. A single, an error, a fielder's choice and a groundout led to two more unearned runs in the inning. The third inning began the same way for the Big Green, as Kelsey Miller homered to put Dartmouth on top, 4-0.

In the top of the fourth, Cardoza singled and came around to score on Shotzbarger's double to right center, cutting the Big Green lead to 4-1. But Dartmouth added an insurance run in the bottom of the fifth on McEachern's RBI single up the middle. Big Green pitcher Ashley Sissel kept the Hawks off the scoreboard the rest of the way to preserve the victory.

The Hawks return to action Tuesday night, when they travel to San Diego State. First pitch is scheduled for 9 p.m. (ET)/6 p.m. (PT).