Softball 4/15/07 -- Concordia-Moorhead 6-4, Augsburg 2-3
GAME 1 BOXSCORE
GAME 2 BOXSCORE
STORY FROM CONCORDIA-MOORHEAD SPORTS INFORMATION
MOORHEAD, Minn. (4/15/07) -- The biggest blow came from the unlikeliest of heroes, as Concordia College-Moorhead used a sixth-inning home run in the bottom of the sixth inning in game 2 to beat Augsburg College 4-3 and complete the sweep of the Auggies in a Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference softball doubleheader on Sunday in Moorhead. The Cobbers took game one 6-2 and have now won five straight games. The five-game winning streak is the longest since the middle of the 2004 season when they also won five games.
The decisive blow in the second game came from the bat of freshman centerfielder Emily Jensen. With the score tied 3-3 and facing the prospect of playing its fourth extra-inning game in the past six contests, Jensen hammered a belt-high fastball that just cleared the center-field fence to give Concordia a 4-3 lead heading into the seventh inning. Cobber starting pitcher Lisa Kott gave up a pair of hits in the final frame, but was aided by an Augsburg runner getting thrown out at third base and picked up her second win in as many days.
In the opener, sophomore pitcher Jill Reinert posted another quality start, as she held the Auggies to a pair of earned runs and allowed only five hits while striking out six in earning her sixth win of the year. She has now posted a win in her three of her last four starts and has allowed only three earned runs in her last 27.1 innings of work.
The Cobber offense took control of the first game in the latter innings by scoring two runs in each of the fifth and sixth innings after the score was tied at 2-2 heading into the fifth frame.
Laura Johnson crushed her first home run of the season in the third inning, and the Cobbers pounded out 10 hits to come away with the four-run win. Four different Cobbers had two hits each in the first game. Kott, Shantelle Nogowski, Maddie Haroldson and Jill Reinert all cracked a pair of hits. Kott and Haroldson also added two RBI each.
Five different Augsburg players had single hits in the game.
Tiffany Magnuson (So., Green Bay, Wis./Notre Dame Academy HS),
Jacci Mattern (So., Lakeville, Minn.),
Ashley Westerman (Jr., Bemidji, Minn.),
Jolene Ross (Jr., Arden Hills, Minn./Mounds View HS) and
Averie Swanson (Fr., St. James, Minn.) all had one hit in the game. Westerman came up with the only extra-base hit in the game for the Auggies, when she doubled to left field in the fourth inning.
The second game was a tighter affair from the first inning. Augsburg scored a lone run in the top of the first inning and then two more in the second stanza, while the Cobbers scored two in the first and a single run in the second. The game stayed deadlocked at 3-3 until the bottom of the sixth when Jensen came through with her clutch round tripper.
Both Kott and Augsburg starter
Kati Tweeten (Sr., Spring Grove, Minn.) did just enough to keep the two offenses from posting any big innings, and both were the recipient of untimely hitting by the two teams. Augsburg stranded nine runners in the second game, and Concordia had five runners left on base. Kott finished the game by allowing 10 hits. Tweeten held the Cobbers to only six hits. She also walked three and struck out four.
Kelli Niess went 2-for-2 for Concordia. She also scored a run and drove in a run. She pushed her season batting average to .424. Jensen also had two hits as they combined for four of the teams' six hits.
Three different Augsburg players had two hits each.
Whitney Restemayer (Fr., Bemidji, Minn.) went 2-for-4 with a run scored and an RBI, Magnuson was 2-for-4 with a run scored and Tweeten helped her cause on the mound by going 2-for-3 at the plate and also drove in a run. Magnuson collected a hit in both games and has now hit safely in five straight games.
Concordia will hit the road to take on No.1-ranked St. Thomas in St. Paul on Tuesday (4/17) at 4 p.m. The Auggies will stay on the road as they play at St. Catherine, also on Tuesday at 4 p.m.
