CLERMONT, Fla.- The Slippery Rock University softball team earned a huge 6-4 win over No. 20 Winona State in a two-game split on Monday at the National Training Center Tournament in Clermont, Florida.

Senior Ashley Samluk broke a 4-4 tie in the seventh inning with an RBI homerun to right center to give The Rock its first win over a nationally ranked team this season.

Before earning the win against Winona State, The Rock fell to Upper Iowa 7-2 in the first game of the day.

After the third day of spring break action, The Rock's record goes to 6-5 overall.

Junior Caitlin Baxter led The Rock on Day Three with two hits, one run and two RBI. Senior Megan Maloney recorded two hits, one run and one stolen base, senior Katie Kaiser had two hits and two runs, and sophomore Allie Fischer had two hits and an RBI to round out SRU's top offensive performers.

Sophomore Paige Flore (2-0) earned the win in Game Two after pitching a full game. Flore allowed seven hits, walked three and struck out four.

Sophomore Brooke Dawson (1-4) was tagged with the loss in Game One after recorded three strike outs, six hits and seven walks in her 6.1 innings pitched against the Peacocks.

Game One: Upper Iowa 7, Slippery Rock 2
Slippery Rock took a one-run lead in the first inning when Kaiser singled, advanced on a sacrifice bunt by Maloney and then scored on Baxter's RBI single.

The Peacocks then went on to score seven unanswered runs across the next six innings before The Rock put something together and scored one more run in the final inning.   

Game Two: Slippery Rock 6, Winona State 4
The Rock was the first team to score in the fourth inning of Game Two when Maloney reached home on a sacrifice bunt by sophomore Emily Nagle. However, the Warriors took the lead at the bottom of the inning with two hits and two runs. 

The teams went back and forth over the next two innings, starting with senior Stacey Herzog hitting a two-run RBI double to center field in the fifth that scored Baxter and freshman Megan Brown. The Warriors then homered in the bottom of the inning to tie it up 3-3.

Both teams exchanged runs in the sixth inning, starting with Fischer's RBI single down the right field line to score sophomore Amanda Brush. Winona State recorded one hit and one run in the bottom of the inning to tie it up again.

Kaiser sparked the seventh inning rally with a double to left field and Samluk's RBI homer two at-bats later proved to be the game-winner for The Rock. Flore sat the Warriors down 1-2-3 in the bottom of the inning to earn her second victory of the season.