MINNEAPOLIS -- The Augsburg University softball team was swept in a pair of five-inning Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference softball games on Saturday afternoon, falling 12-4 and 10-0.

THE BASICS
SCORES: Carleton 12, Augsburg 4 (5 inn.); Carleton 10, Augsburg 0 (5 inn.)
LOCATION: Edor Nelson Field, Minneapolis
RECORD: Augsburg 13-19 overall (4-10 MIAC), Carleton 10-22 overall (4-10 MIAC)

GAME 1 HIGHLIGHTS
• Carleton scored three runs in the first inning, then added nine runs in the final three innings to end the game via the NCAA eight-run rule.
• Jordan Evenson (JR, Mosinee, Wis./Mosinee HS) and Torrie Rehder (SR, Goodhue, Minn./Goodhue HS) hit back-to-back doubles in the third inning, and came home on an RBI single by Jaime Olson (JR, Minneapolis, Minn./South HS) and an RBI groundout by Morgann Paaske (SR, Crystal Lake, Ill./Crystal Lake Central HS).
• Grace Syson (SR, Oshkosh, Wis./Lourdes Academy HS) and Megan Gissler (SO, Louisville, Neb./Louisville HS) scored runs in the fourth inning on a bases-loaded walk by Rehder and a fielder's choice by Olson.
• Gissler had two hits in the game, and Zoie Johnson (SR, Carlton, Minn./Esko HS) hit a double for the Auggies.

GAME 2 HIGHLIGHTS
• Augsburg was limited to two hits in the second game -- a single by Olivia Funk (SR, Lewiston, Minn./Lewiston-Altura HS) in the second inning and a single by Gissler in the fifth. 
• Carleton scored four runs in the first inning, a run in the second and five runs in the third inning.
• Funk pitched two innings of scoreless, hitless relief, striking out two against two walks.

FOR THE FOES
• Livi Peters hit a three-run homer for Carleton in the first game,  
• Sydney Trentman struck out five against one walk for the Knights in the second game.

UP NEXT
• Augsburg hosts Bethel University in a MIAC doubleheader on Tuesday (4/22) at 3:30 p.m. at Edor Nelson Field.