DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – A season-high 13 hits helped Bethune-Cookman manage a split with Marist Saturday afternoon. The Wildcats took the second game 8-3 after Marist won the opener 7-3.

Kelsey Rodney and Kaitlin Alamprese each had three hits for B-CU in the second game, while Bailey Conner drove in two runs and had two hits along with Calesha Shelley and Breanna Chavez.

It was the third time this season B-CU has scored eight runs in a game.

Marist used a three-run homer to take a 3-2 third inning lead, but B-CU answered with RBIs from Conner and Sabrina Anguiano in the bottom of the inning to regain the lead.

Rodney led off the fifth with a single, then scored on a outfield error on an Alamprese single. Conner singled home Alamprese to make it 6-3.

In the sixth Shelley scored on a single by Rodney, who scored on a wild pitch to extend B-CU's lead to five.

Conner got the win in relief, working four scoreless inning.

Chavez also had two hits in the opener, including a RBI single in the second as B-CU led 2-0 after three innings. Wanda Darby had a third-inning RBI single.

A fourth-inning grand slam by  Kyrsten Van Natta put Marist ahead.

Shelley had two triples on the day for B-CU, who begins a five-game California road trip against Harvard Wednesday at Loyola-Marymount.