DES MOINES - The Mount Mercy and Grand View softball teams played  Wednesday until they could barely see anymore.

Grand View tripped the Mustangs, 6-5, in eight innings in the first  game of their Heart of America Conference doubleheader in Des Moines.

The 24th-ranked Vikings led the second game, 9-7, heading into the  bottom of the third when the contest was suspended due to darkness on  a cold, gray day in Des Moines.

The teams will finish the suspended game this Saturday at 11 a.m. at  Busse Field in Cedar Rapids before they play a regularly scheduled  twinbill that day.

Mount Mercy trailed the first game, 5-2, heading into the sixth inning  when they played three runs to knot the score. Grand View scored in  the bottom of the eighth for a walk-off victory.

Michelle Mack was 2-for-2 with a double and two RBIs for the Mustangs.

Mount Mercy fell to 19-10 overall and 12-5 in the conference. Grand  View raised its records to 23-5 overall and 13-2 in the league.

GAME 1

Mount Mercy    000 200 30 - 5 5 0
Grand View     100 031 01 - 6 8 2

Menster Witzany (5) and Miller. L - Witzany (7-5). 2B - Mack.