DUBUQUE - The 10th-ranked Prairie softball team traded a pair of tight victories with Dubuque Hempstead Monday.

Prairie took the first game, 5-4. Gabi Carter went 2-for-3 wtih two RBIs and Kristen Wahlert was 2-for-4 with two runs scored.

Hempstead claimed the second game, 7-5. Natalie Rumer went 2-for-4 with four RBIs for Prairie. Wahlert and Amanda Stecklein were 2-for-3. Halle Lueck scored three runs.

Prairie scored three runs in the top of the seventh inning of the nightcap, but the rally ended there.

Game 1

Prairie     130 010 0 - 5 8 0
Hempstead   000 020 2 - 4 9 x

W - Halvorson.

Game 2

Prairie     100 010 3 - 5 7 1

Hempstead   002 311 x - 7 9 2