CONCORDIA, Kansas — The Cloud County Community College softball team, playing at the Concordia Sports Complex on Tuesday due to wet conditions at the campus field, settled for a doubleheader split against Southeast Community College.

The T-Birds (3-3 overall) rolled to an 8-0 victory in Game One, but struggled to get the bats going in Game Two, falling 2-1 to the visiting Storm (1-7 overall).

"It was a shame we only got a split because Jordan Ummel pitched her tail off and our defense played well, for the most part, the whole day," said Cloud County head coach, Aaron Acree.

Ummel, a First-Team All-District D selection as a freshman, looked the part Tuesday as she shut down Southeast in Game One. She went six innings, scattered three hits, and struck out 10 en route to picking up her second win of the season.

The sophomore also pitched five innings of scoreless relief in Game Two, while finishing the day with five hits (5-of-8) at the plate.

"That's the Jordan we saw last year," Acree said. "I thought (sophomore catcher) Kayla West did a great job behind the plate, too. She's starting to expand her role out there and her and Jordan are having a blast. Nothing was really hit hard against Jordan all day. The velocity and control is back and she's doing a nice job of setting up hitters."

In Game One, Cloud County did most of its damage early as it put up four runs in the bottom of the first inning and tacked on three more in the bottom of the second, aided by four errors and a passed ball by Southeast.

Sophomore outfielder Autumn Adams drove in Cloud County's second run of the game with an RBI single, then capped the first inning by scoring on a throwing error by the Storm's catcher.

In the second inning, freshman third baseman Payton Gillen, who finished 2-for-3 in Game One, hammered a RBI double off the right-center field fence to plate Shania Schraad and came around to score on a RBI single by freshman Alyssa Corpus.

The two teams traded zeros until the bottom of the sixth inning when sophomore Nicole Dinkel scored the T-Birds' eighth run on a wild pitch to end the ballgame.

As for Game Two, the Storm got on the scoreboard in the top of the first inning with a two-run home run by Jessica Lusk.

Cloud County was able to get one run back in the bottom of the first inning when Gillen scored all the way from second base on an error by Southeast's second baseman.

The T-Birds were able to mount threats in the fifth and seventh innings, putting runners on second and third with two outs, but were unable to get the big hit to tie or take the lead.

"We were being impatient (in Game Two) at the plate and we weren't putting good swings on the ball," Acree said. "We have to get back to hitting the ball hard and having a purpose when we step up to the plate."

Ummel paced the T-Birds in Game Two with a 3-for-4 day in the batter's box while pitching five innings of two-hit scoreless relief and five strikeouts.

Cloud County will look to build off Tuesday's doubleheader when it begins its two-day, four-game Cloud County Spring Classic tournament this Saturday and Sunday.

The T-Birds' first game of the tournament is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday with a rematch against the Southeast Community College Storm.

"I'd be really happy if we can finish the tournament 3-1, but we have some real stiff competition coming in here," Acree said. "If we can continue to pitch and play defense well, we should be OK. We just got to find a way to score runs."