The 19th-ranked Hope College softball team celebrated Senior Day on Friday but settled for a doubleheader split with visiting Adrian.

The Flying Dutch rallied for a 4-2 win in the opener at Wolters Stadium but lost the nightcap 4-3 after honoring senior players Kelsey Cooper, Natalie Hiser, Natalie Leahy, Becca Phillips, Adalee Robertson, Julie Sobieski, Olivia Vacik and Peyton Wells, and senior student manager Casey Wierzbicki.

Hope (27-7 overall) is guaranteed at least a second-place tie in the MIAA with a 12-4 league record. Alma could pull even with the Flying Dutch with a sweep of Albion on Saturday.

Hope and Alma will play each other in the first round of next week's MIAA Tournament in Angola, Indiana. Trine and Saint Mary's are the other first-round game.

In Game 1, the Flying Dutch overcame a 2-1 deficit with one run in the bottom of the fifth and two in the sixth.

Wells, of Rockford, Michigan (Rockford HS), knocked in sophomore rightfielder Sammi Adams of Griffith, Indiana (Griffith HS), with the go-ahead run on a bunt single. It was Wells' second RBI single of the game.

After Wells' hit, junior centerfielder Autumn Anderson of Dorr, Michigan (Wayland HS), scored on a wild pitch.

Freshman second baseman Sierra Mutschler of Wayland, Michigan (Wayland HS), tied the score with a RBI double that plated pinchrunner Jenna Fort of Vicksburg, Michigan (Vicksburg HS).

Winning pitcher Kate Laverty of Eaton Rapids, Michigan (Eaton Rapids HS), earned the win by tossing three innings of scoreless relief.  Laverty has a 4-2 record.

In Game 2, Sobieski hit her eighth home run of the season — a two-run blast in the top of the sixth — to tie the score at 3-3. 

Adrian (20-16, 8-8 MIAA) answered with a RBI single off Vacik (4-1) in its half of the inning.