JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The South Dakota State softball team split a pair of games Friday at the UNF/Dolphin Invitational, beating Colgate 9-7 before falling 10-8 in eight innings versus North Florida.

The Jackrabbits (4-3) take on Colgate at 1 p.m. and Jacksonville at 3:30 p.m. today before playing College of Charleston on Sunday at 9 a.m.

• SDSU 9, Colgate 7

Emma Hardin started and threw into the third, allowing four runs on five hits with a strikeout. Morgan DeMarais (1-0) earned her first collegiate win in relief, giving up three runs (two earned) with a pair of strikeouts over the final 4 1/3 frames.

All nine offensive starters recorded a hit for SDSU, which used a well-rounded mix of speed and power in the win, swiping a school-record seven bags with a pair of home runs late.

Ali Herdliska, Lyndsey Crist and Caelyn Christiancy had multi-hit days at the plate. Crist had a three-run home run and Christiancy added a pair of RBIs.

Allison Beaudry hit her first career home run and scored a team-high three runs while working two free passes in the game.

SDSU started fast and built a 2-0 lead in the top of the first. Peyton Daugherty opened the game with a four-pitch walk, followed by a sacrifice bunt attempt from Allison Yoder that led to a Raider error.

Yoder stole second soon after, and Herdliska drove the first run of the day home when she sent a 3-2 pitch back up the middle. Herdliska stole second in the next at-bat, and an errant throw on the play allowed Yoder to dash home.

The Jackrabbits tacked on another in the second while continuing their aggressive approach on the base paths. With one gone in the inning, Christiancy singled and stole second, then wheeled around to score as Daugherty poked a single of her own through the right side.

Christiancy and the Jacks made it 5-0 in the third off a one-out, two-RBI single, but saw Colgate answer with a four-spot in the bottom of the inning to cut SDSU’s lead 5-4.

Beaudry’s solo shot gave State an insurance run in the top of the fourth, and the Jacks added three more when Crist came through with a three-run home run in the sixth to put SDSU ahead 9-4.

That five-run cushion was crucial in the late innings, as the Raiders got one back in the bottom of the sixth and scored two more in the seventh, but the Jackrabbits avoided further damage in the final frame to hang on for the win.

Four different Raiders finished with a pair of hits, including Jordan Miller, who had three RBIs.

• North Florida 10, SDSU 8 (8 inn.)

Taylor Compton (2-2) took the loss in a complete game performance, striking out two.

Herdliska hit her third home run of the season – a grand slam. The senior from Solon, Iowa, is now tied with Devan Larsen (2013-16) for the school’s career home runs record at 35.

Yanney Ponce was 4-for-4 with an RBI and a stolen base.

Four other Jackrabbits had hits in a game that saw SDSU jump out to the early lead, only to fall late to the hard-charging Ospreys.

The Jackrabbits took a 1-0 lead in the opening frame thanks to a one-out RBI single from Mallory McQuistan. Daugherty singled to start the game and, after a sacrifice bunt and Herdliska free pass, McQuistan drove a 1-0 pitch through the right side to plate the leadoff runner.

That score held until the top of the fourth, when the Jacks added six more runs.

After loading the bases behind a hit-by-pitch (Beaudry) and two singles (Rushing and Ponce), the Jackrabbits scratched two runs across when pinch-hitter Paige Gerdes reached on an error to score Beaudry, and with two outs Crist brought Rushing home on an infield single.

Herdliska unloaded the bases soon thereafter, launching a 3-2 pitch over the center-field fence for her first-career grand slam.

The 7-0 lead disappeared over the next two innings, however, as UNF got three back with a two-out rally in the bottom of the sixth, and with two gone in the seventh Dominica Cocuzza hit a game-tying grand slam of her own to force extras.

Using international tiebreaker rules, State opened the eighth with Beaudry on second, and after a ground ball pushed her to third the Elk Grove, Calif., native dashed home on a gutsy squeeze bunt from Yanney Ponce.

The Ospreys’s Navia Penrod hit a two-run walkoff homer with two away in the bottom of the eighth.

Penrod went 4-of-5 with a double and the homer, while Cocuzza totaled five RBIs.