MINNEAPOLIS -- After dropping a 7-0 decision to St. Olaf College in the opener, the Augsburg University softball team bounced back with a 4-3 victory in the second game of a Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader on Thursday at Edor Nelson Field.
THE BASICS
SCORES: St. Olaf 7, Augsburg 0; Augsburg 4, St. Olaf 3
LOCATION: Edor Nelson Field, Minneapolis
RECORD: Augsburg 22-8 overall (7-5 MIAC), St. Olaf 16-12 overall (7-5 MIAC)
GAME 1 HIGHLIGHTS
• Augsburg was limited to three hits in the first game -- a single by
Katie Manecke (SR, Shoreview, Minn./Mounds View HS) in the first inning, a single by
Libby Moore (SR, Springville, Iowa/Springville HS) in the second, and a single by
Zoie Johnson (JR, Carlton, Minn./Esko HS) in the fourth.
• St. Olaf scored four runs in the third inning, sending nine batters to the plate and collecting four hits, including a three-run homer by Anne Fossum. Jaelyn Orth hit a solo homer in the sixth, and two more runs came across in the seventh.
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Olivia O'Connor (SR, White Bear Lake, Minn./White Bear Lake HS) struck out three against three walks for the Auggies.
GAME 2 HIGHLIGHTS
• Augsburg rallied from a 3-1, second-inning deficit with a run in the third inning and two runs in the fourth to claim the victory.
• In the bottom of the first, Manecke walked, moved to second on a single by
Lola Pilon (FY, St. Paul, Minn./Mounds Park Academy HS), and scored on a single by
Olivia Hennager (SO, Inver Grove Heights, Minn./Simley HS).
• Hennager got her second RBI of the game in the third inning, driving in Johnson on a two-out double to right field.
• The Auggies took the lead in the fourth inning.
Jaime Olson (SO, Minneapolis, Minn./South HS) led off with a single, moved to third on a sacrifice bunt and groundout, and scored on an RBI single to left by Manecke. Pilon then connected on her sixth double of the season to plate Manecke.
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Morgann Paaske (JR, Crystal Lake, Ill./Crystal Lake Central HS) improved to 11-3 on the season with her eighth complete-game pitching effort, striking out three against three walks and two hits. She had 54 strikes among her 94 pitches.
• Pilon and Hennager had two hits each for the Auggies in the second game. Moore and
Jayden Evenson (SO, Mosinee, Wis./Mosinee HS) hit doubles for the Auggies.
FOR THE FOES
• Medora Rylee, Shreya Ashok, Maya Patty and Jenna Peschel had two hits each for St. Olaf in the first game.
• Jaelyn Orth had two strikeouts against two walks in the first game pitching win.
UP NEXT
• Augsburg travels to face Carleton in an MIAC doubleheader on Saturday (4/20) at 1 p.m.
