BEL AIR, Md. - The Harford softball team (15-2, 7-1 MD JUCO) saw its 15-game win streak snapped in the second game of a split against CCBC Catonsville (14-6, 5-1 MD JUCO) on Thursday, producing a first-place tie with the Cardinals. The Fighting Owls won the opener 6-2 before dropping the nightcap 8-1.

Harford 6, CCBC Catonsville 2
Tori Brooks hit a two-run home run and scored three times in the team's school record 15th consecutive victory. Desi Joines was untouchable for the first six innings and held on for her ninth win of the year.

Joines scattered three hits and struck out a career-best 14 batters in seven innings. She walked four batters in the final inning and the tying run came to the plate, but she locked in and got the Cardinals top hitter to pop out with the bases loaded to end the mini threat.

Harford scored a run without putting the ball in play in the first inning with four walks and three strikeouts. It almost was enough with the dazzling display from Joines. Brooks scored the first run, sent a longball over the leftfield wall in the second and scored on Bethanie Cook's two-out, two-run single in the sixth to extend the lead to 6-0.

CCBC Catonsville 8, Harford 1
A seven-run first inning was too much to overcome in the nightcap as Harford's run came to an end. The Cardinals batted around in the first and cruised to the win.

The Fighting Owls were held to just two hits, their lowest total of the season. Cook singled and Joines collected an RBI-single in the third that scored Brooks for Harford's only offense.

The Fighting Owls travel to Cecil on Friday at 3 p.m.