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BOXSCORE 4 LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- The Augsburg College softball team has traveled to California for spring break this year, and opened competition Saturday at St. Katherine, followed by a doubleheader with Occidental on Sunday afternoon. As we await results from their doubleheader against St. Katherine, the following is a recap of the Auggies matchup with Occidental. THE BASICSGAME SCORES: Occidental 6, Augsburg 3; Occidental 2, Augsburg 0LOCATION: Bell Softball Field, Los Angeles, Calif.RECORDS: Augsburg 2-6 overall, Occidental 5-13 overallGAME 1 HIGHLIGHTS• The Auggies struck first, scoring once in the first inning then again in the third to take a 2-0 lead.
• The Tigers rallied in the bottom of the third scoring four runs on six hits and one error to take a 4-2 lead. The Auggies mustered one more run in the sixth, but surrendered two in the bottom half of the sixth.Â
• Augsburg finished with six hits in the game, while Occidental finished with ten.
• Bekka Kelly (SR, Columbia Heights, Minn.) led Augsburg offensively with two hits and a walk, while Lauren Torborg (SO, Brooklyn Park, Minn./Park Center HS) finished 1-for-4 with an RBI.Â
• Lindsay Helbach (SR, Amherst, Wis.) had a strikeout, and surrendered three earned runs in six innings of pitching for the Auggies.
GAME 2 HIGHLIGHTS
• Occidental scored one run in the first, and added another in the fourth to earn the 2-0 victory in the second game against the Auggies.• Augsburg was held to three hits -- a single by Kelly in the top of the second, a Torborg single to center field in the third, and another single to center by
Brianna Cline (St. Claire, Minn.).
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Courtney Larsen (FY, Little Canada, Minn./Concordia Academy) pitched 4 innings for the Auggies, striking out one while walking three.
• Helbach pitched two shutout innings of relief work striking out one.
FOR THE FOES• Three Occidental pitchers -- Megan Maher, Dallas Boyce, Olivia Thayer -- combined for 14 innings without an earned run.Â
• Alex Battest led the Tigers at the plate going 3-for-5 with three RBIs on the day. UP NEXT• Augsburg travels to Thousand Oaks, Calif. for a doubleheader with California Lutheran University starting at 2 p.m. on Monday (3/16).
