2 weeks Ago By Staff reports
St. Scholastica softball picked up some steam in a busy stretch of three Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference doubleheaders in four days, winning four of the six games against Hamline, St. Catherine and Gustavus Adolphus.
Saturday in St. Peter, Minnesota, center fielder Sami Ernst finished 4-for-4 with a run and two RBIs as the Saints won game one 6-5. Ernst’s two-run single in the fourth inning held up as a game-winning hit.
ADVERTISEMENT Katelyn Hackman had three hits, while Payton Lang had a three-run triple. Aleah Shogren earned the pitching win, allowing five runs (three earned) on 10 hits in a complete game. The Saints were denied a sweep when the Gusties walked off 3-2 winners in eight innings in the second game.
Anna Azure was 3-for-4 and drove in both Saints runs, the second coming with the tiebreaker runner on second base in the top of the eighth inning. Gustavus put together two hits in the bottom of the eighth to win it. On Thursday in Duluth, the Saints took a pair of tight games from St.
Catherine, 3-1 and 3-2. Shogren allowed only an unearned run on four hits in the opener, while a Hackman sacrifice fly and a double steal in the third inning proved enough offensive support. In the second game, the Saints came roaring back in the seventh inning with three runs.
After a one-out double by Victoria Nelson, Lang drove in one run on a sacrifice fly and the Saints followed by scoring the tying run on a wild pitch and the winning run on a bases-loaded walk. CSS used three pitchers, with Shogren allowing one run over the last three innings for the win in relief. ADVERTISEMENT On Wednesday, April 16 in St.
Paul, CSS split a doubleheader, winning the opener 4-2 at Hamline before losing game two 5-0. CSS (10-20, 6-8 MIAC) was set to play two road doubleheaders this week: at Concordia-Moorhead on Tuesday and at Saint Benedict on Saturday. BASEBALL Saints split in Moorhead St.
Scholastica pitcher Zach Hlinsky tossed seven shutout innings for a complete-game three-hitter as the Saints blanked Concordia-Moorhead 5-0 in the first game of a MIAC baseball doubleheader in Moorhead on Saturday. The Cobbers came back with two late runs to claim a walk-off 2-1 victory in the second game of the twinbill. Hlinsky worked around three singles and four walks.
Ryan Garlick provided all the offense the Saints would need in the second inning. His bunt single drove in a run, a second run came in after a botched pickoff attempt, and Garlick scored the Saints’ third run of the inning on a wild pitch. He then singled again in the fourth inning to make it 4-0.
Jack Tiemann finished 3-for-4, while Jake Schelonka added a pair of hits. All 10 CSS hits in game one were singles. ADVERTISEMENT Game two was played over nine innings and the Saints were up 1-0 after seven with only a fifth-inning run scored on a passed ball to separate the teams.
The Cobbers tied the game up in the eighth, and though CSS worked out of a two-on, no-out situation to keep the game tied, Concordia turned a lead-off single into a game-winning one-out sacrifice fly in the bottom of the ninth. Matt Forrest allowed one run on seven hits in eight innings for CSS. Payton Jeffries took the loss.
The Saints finished with three singles, one from each of three hitters. It was a busy week for CSS baseball, which took down Northland 8-2 and 13-3 in a nonconference doubleheader at Wade Stadium on Wednesday. Five Saints had two-hit games in the first game, while CSS scored in five of its six at-bats in game two.
Garlick had a two-run double, a sacrifice fly and a bases-loaded walk for four RBIs in game two. The day before, CSS split a MIAC doubleheader vs. Saint Mary’s, taking the opener 4-1 and dropping game two 9-3.
ADVERTISEMENT CSS (14-15, 5-8 MIAC) was scheduled for nonconference games at Wade Stadium vs. North Central (Tuesday) and Wisconsin-Superior (Wednesday) before a league trip to Hamline on Saturday night. WOMEN’S TENNIS Saints take down Bennies An 8-1 win for St.
Scholastica in MIAC women’s tennis at Saint Benedict on Thursday in Collegeville, Minnesota marked the Saints’ fourth straight league win. The Saints won every flight except No. 1 doubles, with Julia Maier leading the way at No.
1 singles with a 6-4, 6-3 win, followed by Katia Bartels prevailing 6-1, 6-1 at No. 2. The CSS men lost 6-3 at Saint John’s on the same trip.
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