MARQUETTE — Marquette split a high school softball doubleheader with Gladstone at the Sentinels’ Lions Field home on Wednesday.

After Marquette lost the opener 17-3, MSHS bounced back for a 10-0 shutout in the nightcap.

After a busy past two weeks, the Sentinels get nearly a week’s breather before playing again Tuesday, when they’ll host Menominee in a doubleheader starting at 4:30 p.m.

Here are details from Wednesday:

Gladstone 17, Marquette 3

In the opener, the Sentinels scored three runs in the second inning to get within 4-3, but couldn’t slow the Braves’ offense after that, giving up multiple runs in each of the three remaining innings.

Charlye Swajanen took the pitching loss, going 4 1/3 innings while allowing 17 runs — 12 earned — on 15 hits and three walks as she struck out five. Teammate Makayla Gustafson worked part of the fifth inning without allowing a run nor hit as she K’d two.

Gladstone’s Addy Sunnville started and went two innings, allowing three runs on two hits and three walks as she fanned three.

Marquette’s three hits, all singles, came off the bats of Lauren Johnson, Ava Hanford and Sammy Trapani, while teammate Alexa Whaley had an RBI.

The Sentinels committed four errors that contributed to five unearned runs.

Sunnville also led Braves’ hitters, going 2 for 4.

Marquette 10, Gladstone 0

In Game 2, Gustafson started and went all five innings, not allowing a run while giving up a lone single to Sunnville and walking three as she fanned five.

Marquette whipped up nine hits against two Braves’ pitchers, including Swajanen going 2 for 4 with a home run, double and three RBIs, while Trapani was 2 for 3 with two runs scored and a stolen base. Whaley cranked a triple while getting an RBI and run, and Johnson doubled while scoring a run.

Maddy Havel and Swajanen led off the Sentinels’ bottom half of the first inning with back-to-back homers, while Gustafson knocked in a run on a fielder’s choice later in the frame for a 3-0 lead.

Two more runs scampered home in the third when Lily Smigiel hit an RBI single and a error brought in a run, then culminated it with a five-run fifth as Swajanen hit a two-run double to go with a Whaley RBI triple, Hanford RBI single and a run-scoring error.

Story contents based on an email received from Marquette softball representative Bill Finkbeiner. Journal Sports Editor Steve Brownlee’s email address is sbrownlee@miningjournal.net.