ST. JOSEPH, MInn. -- The Augsburg University softball team dropped a Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader at the College of Saint Benedict on Saturday, falling 10-7 in the first game and 11-1 in five innings in the second game.

THE BASICS
SCORES: Saint Benedict 10, Augsburg 7; Saint Benedict 11, Augsburg 1 (5 inn.)
LOCATION: CSB Softball Field, St. Joseph, Minn.
RECORD: Augsburg 10-12 overall (1-3 MIAC), Macalester 10-8 overall (2-0 MIAC)

GAME 1 HIGHLIGHTS
• In a back-and-forth first game, Augsburg tied the game at 7-7 with two runs in the fourth inning, but Saint Benedict claimed the victory with two runs in the bottom of the fifth and a run in the bottom of the sixth.
• Olivia Funk (SR, Lewiston, Minn./Lewiston-Altura HS) hit a two-run single to plate Torrie Rehder (SR, Goodhue, Minn./Goodhue HS) and Jaime Olson (JR, Minneapolis, Minn./South HS) in the first inning.
• Grace Syson (SR, Oshkosh, Wis./Lourdes Academy HS) drove in Lola Pilon (SO, Farmington, Minn./Mounds View Academy HS) on a sacrifice fly in the third inning, followed by a two-run double by Jayden Evenson (JR, Mosinee, Wis./Mosinee HS), which plated Megan Gissler (SO, Louisville, Neb./Louisville HS) and Olivia Hennager (JR, Inver Grove Heights, Minn./Simley HS).
• In the fifth, Morgann Paaske (SR, Crystal Lake, Ill./Crystal Lake Central HS) scored on a wild pitch, and Syson brought home Pilon on an infield single.
• Funk went 3-for-4 in the first game for the Auggies, driving in two runs.
• Paaske struck out two against four walks and eight hits in six innings of work. Just five of the 10 runs charged to Paaske were earned, as Augsburg committed four errors in the game.

GAME 2 HIGHLIGHTS
• Augsburg scored a run in the first inning, as Pilon hit an RBI single to bring home Rehder, but after that, it was all Saint Benedict in the second game, as the Bennies scored all 11 of their runs in the first three innings.
• Pilon went 3-for-3 for the Auggies in the second game, while Evenson went 2-for-2.
• Zoe Adkins (JR, Homer, Alaska/Homer HS) pitched the first two innings, and Paaske pitched the final two innings, striking out two.

FOR THE FOES
• Olivia Tautges went 3-for-3 with three runs scored and a home run for Saint Benedict in the first game.
• Bryn Ruhberg went 2-for-2 with four RBI and two runs scored, hitting a grand-slam home run in the third inning of the second game.

UP NEXT
• Augsburg is scheduled to host the College of St. Scholastica in an MIAC doubleheader on Tuesday (4/8) at 3:30 p.m. at Edor Nelson Field.