BALTIMORE, Md. – Liz Christiansen (Etters, Pa./Red Land) smacked two home runs on the day, including a two-run homer in the opening game to give Mount St. Mary's the lead for good in a 6-5 win against Morgan State during a non-conference softball doubleheader on Saturday. The Bears won the nightcap, 6-5.

Christiansen went 2-for-3 with a home run, two RBIs and two runs scored in the opener and then added another roundtripper and scored the tying run in the top of the seventh in the second game.

Beth Everist (Lansdale, Pa./North Penn) added three hits and two runs scored for the Mount (3-17) while Taylor Beebe (Olympia, Wash./Capital) added three hits and two runs scored in the twinbill. Jamie Fowler (Hagerstown, Md./South Hagerstown) pitched both ends of the doubleheader and earned her third win of the year in the opener.

Tamra Griffin paced Morgan State (7-3) with five hits, two runs scored and an RBI while Kriston Gowan posted four hits, three RBIs and two runs scored in the doubleheader.

In the opener, the Bears took a 1-0 lead in the third inning on a Gowan RBI fielder's choice before the Mountaineers took the lead for good by scoring four runs in the fourth and two runs in the fifth.

Everist started a four-run fourth with a double to center field before Christiansen gave Mount St. Mary's the lead for good on a two-run homer to center field. After Amanda Buckel (Finksburg, Md./North Carroll) scored on an error, Amanda Burk (Bristow, Va./Stonewall Jackson) plated Katie Donovan (Seabrook, Md./St. Vincent Palotti) on a groundout to second base for a 4-1 advantage.

The Mount added two runs in the fifth to increase the lead to 6-1. Everist again started the rally after being hit by the pitch. Christiansen singled to right field and Everist scored on the play thanks to an error. Jenna Zimmerman (Walkersville, Md./Walkerville) plated Christiansen on a run-scoring single to right field.

Morgan State cut the deficit to four runs on a Gowan homer in the sixth, but could get no closer.

In the nightcap, Mount St. Mary's rallied to tie the game at 5 in the top of the seventh, but the Bears scored the decisive run in the bottom of the stanza to come away with the 6-5 victory.

With the game tied at 5, Griffin singled through the left side and moved to third on a Gowan double to left field before Carolynn Howard singled down the left field line to plate Griffin with the game-winning run.

The Mount grabbed a 1-0 lead in the game in the first inning. Beebe doubled to center to lead off the game and then touched home on a passed ball.

Morgan State posted three runs in the bottom of the first to take a 3-1 edge. Lydia Walther-Rodriquez put the Bears on the scoreboard on a sacrifice fly before Gowan and Howard each doubled home a run to left center for a two-run lead.

The Mountaineers cut the margin in half in the third. Beebe doubled to left field and scored on Lisa Curreri's (Clinton, N.J./North Hunterdon) infield single.

Morgan State added to its advantage in the fifth with two runs to take a 5-2 margin. Griffin brought home a run on a single up the middle and then Hannah Montgomery plated another run on a sacrifice fly.

Mount St. Mary's answered with two runs in the sixth to trim the margin to 5-4. Christiansen smacked her second homer of the afternoon and third of the year to right center to start the inning. Everist then reached on an error and then touched home on Nicole Reeder's (Glen Burnie, Md./Archbishop Spalding) RBI single to left field.

Christiansen was the catalyst for the Mount to tie the game in the seventh. The freshman walked, moved to second on an Everist single to left and scored on an error to knot the contest at 5. The Bears then won the game in the bottom of the inning on Howard's RBI single.

Fowler moved into third place on the program's all-time win list after her win in the opener with 27th career victory. The senior also had 12 strikeouts to become the second player in program history to record 300 strikeouts.

Mount St. Mary's returns to action on Wednesday at Towson. Game time is 3 p.m.