MINNEAPOLIS – Libby Moore (SO, Springville, Iowa/Springville HS) pitched a complete-game victory and went 3-for-4 with a two-run double in the second game, leading the Augsburg University softball team in a Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader split with the College of St. Scholastica on Tuesday afternoon.

THE BASICS
SCORES: St. Scholastica 4, Augsburg 2; Augsburg 10, St. Scholastica 2 (6 innings)
LOCATION: Edor Nelson Field, Minneapolis
RECORD: Augsburg 20-18 overall (6-14 MIAC), St. Scholastica 16-16 overall (6-10 MIAC)

GAME 1 HIGHLIGHTS
• After St. Scholastica took a 2-0 lead in the first inning, Augsburg tied the game with a run in the second inning and a run in the sixth. But the Saints' Aislind Dail hit a two-run homer in the top of the seventh to lift the Saints to the win. 
• Zoie Johnson (SO, Carlton, Minn./Esko HS) led off the second inning with a single, and came around to score on a single by Olivia Dynneson (JR, Minneapolis, Minn./South HS).
• Johnson also scored the tying run in the sixth inning. After hitting a two-out single, she came around to score on a throwing error following a Jaime Olson (FY, Minneapolis, Minn./South HS) single.
• Olivia O'Connor (JR, White Bear Lake, Minn./White Bear Lake HS) pitched a complete game for Augsburg, striking out seven against four walks and eight hits.

GAME 2 HIGHLIGHTS
• Making her fifth pitching start of the season, Moore improved to 2-2 with her fourth complete game, striking out two against one walk and four hits. She kept the Saints off the scoreboard until the top of the sixth inning.
• After taking a 1-0 lead in the second frame, Augsburg scored five runs in the fourth inning and four runs in the sixth inning to end the game via the NCAA eight-run rule. Moore provided the game-ending hit with a two-run double with one out in the sixth, following a bases-loaded RBI single by Olivia Hennager (FY, Inver Grove Heights, Minn./Simley HS), plating Jayden Evenson (FY, Mosinee, Wis./Mosinee HS) and a bases-loaded fielder's choice by Dynneson that drove in Katie Manecke (JR, Shoreview, Minn./Shoreview HS).
• Johnson put the Auggies on the board in the second inning, hitting her team-leading fourth home run of the season, a solo shot to left field.
• The Auggies sent nine batters to the plate in the fourth inning, scoring five runs. Kayla Hanson (SR, St. James, Minn./St. James HS) and Manecke each hit two-run doubles, and Hennager drove in a run on a groundout. 
• Augsburg collected 14 hits in the game, with three hits each by Moore and Manecke, and two hits by Olson. 

FOR THE FOES
• Sam Paniagua went 3-for-4 with a run scored and an RBI in the first game for the Saints.
• Haley Rosenthal pitched a complete-game victory for St. Scholastica in the first game, striking out four against two walks and four hits.

UP NEXT
• Augsburg closes its 2023 season with a MIAC doubleheader against Saint Mary's on Thursday (5/4) at 1 p.m. at Edor Nelson Field.