ARDEN HILLS, Minn. -- The Augsburg University softball team took a lead in each game of its Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader at Bethel University on Wednesday, but the Royals went on big scoring runs to sweep the twinbill, 9-3 and 10-4.

THE BASICS
SCORES: Bethel 9, Augsburg 3; Bethel 10, Augsburg 4
LOCATION: Ona North Complex, Arden Hills, Minn.
RECORD: Augsburg 11-11 overall (3-3 MIAC), Bethel 17-3 overall (2-2 MIAC)

GAME 1 HIGHLIGHTS
• Augsburg scored three runs in the top of the third inning, but Bethel scored nine unanswered runs over the next three innings to claim the victory.
• Mackenzie Evenson (JR, St. Louis Park, Minn./St. Louis Park HS) hit a run-scoring single, scoring Jacquline Nichols (SR, Royalton, Minn./Royalton HS), and Kate Stehr (JR, Goodhue, Minn./Goodhue HS) hit a two-run single, scoring Sam Anderson (SR, Coon Rapids, Minn./Coon Rapids HS) and Evenson, to account for Augsburg's runs in the third frame.
• Anderson struck out five in a complete-game pitching effort for the Auggies.
• Evenson had two hits in the first game.

GAME 2 HIGHLIGHTS
• Augsburg scored the first run of the game, as Hollywood Hermanson (JR, Dover, Minn./Dover-Eyota HS) hit a two-out single to drive in Nell Gehrke (JR, Northfield, Minn./Northfield HS) in the first inning. But Bethel scored three runs in the bottom of the first and seven runs in the bottom of the fourth.
• Bethel took advantage of four Augsburg errors in the game, with six of its 10 runs unearned against Augsburg pitchers Bella Kallas (SO, Big Lake, Minn./Big Lake HS) and Elly Strunk (SO, Blooming Prairie, Minn./Blooming Prairie HS). Kallas started and had two strikeouts in 3.1 innings, while Strunk had two strikeouts in 2.2 innings of relief.
• The Auggies scored twice in the fifth, as Evenson hit a two-run single to plate Anderson and Gehrke. In the seventh, Kayla Hanson (FY, Trimont, Minn./St. James HS) doubled, moved to third on a wild pitch, and came home on an RBI groundout by Gehrke.
• Shannon Dale (JR, Watertown, Minn./Watertown-Mayer HS) also had a double for the Auggies.

FOR THE FOES
• Maddie Fauth went 3-for-3 in the first game with two doubles, a home run, two RBI and two runs scored, while Amada Gemuenden went 3-for-4 with a triple, three RBI and a run scored.
• Allie Fauth went 3-for-4 with a double, RBI and two runs scored in the second game, while Kayla Hokanson went 3-for-4 with two RBI.
• Hannah Schmidt had 10 strikeouts against one walk in the first-game victory, while Calli Maki and Ellie Rogers combined to strike out seven against five walks in the second game.

UP NEXT
• Augsburg hosts Macalester in a MIAC doubleheader on Saturday (4/6) at 1 p.m. at Edor Nelson Field.
• Bethel hosts Concordia-Moorhead in a MIAC doubleheader on Saturday at 1 p.m.