MINNEAPOLIS -- With Hamline University taking the lead late in both games, the Piper softball team claimed a doubleheader sweep of host Augsburg University in Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference action on Saturday afternoon, winning 2-0 and 5-4.

THE BASICS
SCORES: Hamline 2, Augsburg 0; Hamline 5, Augsburg 4
LOCATION: Edor Nelson Field, Minneapolis
RECORD: Augsburg 13-19 overall (5-11 MIAC), Hamline 18-14 overall (11-5 MIAC)

GAME 1 HIGHLIGHTS
• Pitcher Sam Anderson (SR, Coon Rapids, Minn./Coon Rapids HS) threw a one-hitter in the first game, striking out five against just two walks, facing just 25 batters in the game. But the one hit was a two-run homer to left by Hamline's Kira Kruger in the top of the sixth inning for the only runs of the contest.
• Anderson was unable to gain run support in the game, as the Auggies managed just three hits -- a single of her own in the sixth, and singles by Sarah Garcia (SO, St. Paul, Minn./Cretin-Derham Hall HS) and Jacquline Nichols (SR, Royalton, Minn./Royalton HS) in the fourth. But the Auggies only had one runner reach third base in the game, as all five of its baserunners were stranded.
• Hamline pitcher Alex Molloy was equally as effective as Anderson in the first game, striking out seven against two walks in her complete-game effort.

GAME 2 HIGHLIGHTS
• Augsburg scored the first two runs of the game in the bottom of the first inning and held a 4-2 lead going into the seventh, but Hamline scored three runs in the final frame, taking advantage of four hits, including a double, and a throwing error that plated the eventual game-winning run.
• Anderson stroked an RBI double to drive in Garcia in the first inning, and Anderson scored on a sacrifice fly by Nichols. Hollywood Hermanson (JR, Dover, Minn./Dover-Eyota HS) singled and came around to score on a single by Elly Strunk (SO, Blooming Prairie, Minn./Blooming Prairie HS) in the fourth, and Hermanson singled, went to second following a fielding error and to third on a wild pitch, and scored on a fielder's choice by Strunk in the sixth.
• Strunk struck out three against four walks in a complete-game pitching effort.
• Hermanson went 3-for-3 at the plate and scored two runs for the Auggies in the second game, with Strunk driving in two runs.

FOR THE FOES
• In addition to pitching the first game, Molloy also earned a complete-game win in the second game, striking out one against one walk and seven hits. She also helped herself at the plate, going 3-for-4 with a double and three RBI.
• Delaney Kohler hit two triples and scored a run, and Riley Husom went 2-for-4 with two runs scored. Kat Armstrong alson went 2-for-4 with an RBI.

UP NEXT
• Augsburg hosts St. Catherine in a rescheduled doubleheader on Tuesday (4/23) at 4:30 p.m., its final home doubleheader at Edor Nelson Field this season.
• Hamline hosts Carleton in a MIAC doubleheader next Saturday (4/27) at 1 p.m.