By MIKE MONTFORT

'Boom!' went the Navarro bats in Game 2.

The Bulldogs got a grand slam from Tatum Briggs, plus homers from Faith Fernandez and Harley Davis in an 18-hit attack to earn a 10-6 win and a doubleheader split Friday with the Blinn Buccaneers at Jesse and Lou Cummings Field. 

Coach Jessica Karenke-Burke's Bulldogs bounced back from a tough 5-3 first-game loss to reach double-digit scoring for the third time this year, while posting a single-season high in hits.  Briggs, Fernandez and Davis knocked in nine runs to back the complete-game pitching performance of Braylee Forse.

Forse battled through 126 pitches, scattered seven hits, walked one and struck out a season-high 13 batters.  While surrendering six runs, only two were earned.

Third baseman Keely Castillo's two-run homer in the second inning drew an immediate equal response from Navarro's Faith Fernandez off Buccaneer starter Nevada Donlik in the home half.  Fernandez gave NC a 3-2 in the bottom of the third with a single to left that enabled Briggs to score from second.  

NC ran Dolnik from the circle in a six-hit, five-run fourth inning. 

Consecutive singles by Jenna Rude, London Reue and Maddie Wright loaded the bases and prompted reliever Skylar Shanahan's entry.  Briggs belted her first grand slam -- her team-leading third homer of the season -- to give the 'Dawgs a 7-2 cushion. Islas singled on the first pitch after Briggs' homer.  Her courtesy runner, Janay Reynolds, promptly stole second and scored on Callie Waller's base hit.

GAME 1:  Blinn 5, Navarro 3

Centerfielder Mikaela Lopez hit a two-out, two-strike, three-run home in the fourth inning that gave Blinn a 4-0 lead.  Navarro trailed 5-0 before rallying with three runs in the bottom of the seventh, but left two aboard and the potential winning run at the plate. 

BC courtesy runner Italie Speziale, subbing after a Shanahan base hit, scored Blinn's first run of Game 1 after third baseman Sam Rodriguez' one-out, second-inning single.