DULUTH, Minn. – The St. Scholastica softball team will play their first home games of the season this week when it hosts Northwestern College for a doubleheader on Tuesday and 25th-ranked University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire for one game on Wednesday.

Game Times:
Tuesday (DH) vs. Northwestern – 3 p.m. (Kenwood Field)
Wednesday vs. UW-Eau Claire – 3 p.m. (Kenwood Field)
Wednesday: Northland vs. UW-Eau Claire – 5 p.m. (Kenwood Field)

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Last Action:
The St. Scholastica softball team went 2-2 over the weekend, dropping two to regional power and fifth-ranked Central College (Iowa) on Friday and then dismantling Crown in a doubleheader on Saturday.

St. Scholastica Saints (8-9, 3-0 UMAC)
The Saints played well against fifth-ranked Central College in game one, falling 3-2 after the Dutch scored a run in each the fifth and sixth innings … After getting swept by the Dutch, CSS took out their frustrations on Crown Saturday, winning 19-0 in game one and 32-0 in game two … The 32 runs scored were one shy of the program record set in 2003 … The Saints also tied a record with four triples in the game … #Bonnie Kowalczyk# has reached base in nine straight games and leads the team with a .444 batting average … #Merryssa Tiedeman# leads the team with three triples, three home runs, and 12 RBIs … She is also 3-for-3 in stolen base attempts … The Saints have primarily used three pitchers this season in #Brittni Johnson#, #Darcy Roach#, and #Jen Falk# … But a fourth pitcher saw her first action on the mound against Crown on Saturday and that was #Shannen Schmidt#, who allowed just one hit over four innings and struck out six … Look for her appearances to increase as the season goes on.

Northwestern Eagles (7-11, 2-1 UMAC)
The Eagles will enter Tuesday following a split with Northland College on Saturday … The Eagles, who are picked to finish second in the conference this season according to the preseason coaches' poll, have won three of their last four games after starting the season 4-10 … Alyssa Borgstrom has played in just half of the games for the Eagles this season, but leads the team with a .593 batting average … Briana Rodgers has team-high three home runs and 22 RBIs … Northwestern has a 4.57 team earned run average with Ashley Olson leading the team with four wins.

Last Meeting: (CSS All-Time Record vs. Northwestern: 48-5)
The Saints took four games from Northwestern last season with the last taking place in the UMAC Tournament by a 5-2 score.

#25 UW-Eau Claire Blugolds (17-5, 4-0 WIAC)
The Blugolds are coming off a split against Central College on Saturday to snap the Dutch's 23-game winning streak … UWEC is currently ranked 25th in the most recent National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Division III poll … The Blugolds have won six of their last seven games … Emily Haluska leads the team with a .476 batting average … Jess Freagon has three home runs and a team-high 26 RBIs … Sara Baumgartner and Emily Muller also have three home runs each … Five different pitchers have started games for UWEC this season with Ashley Meinen seeing the majority of innings thus far … Meinen and Carlson each have a team-high five wins … The Blugolds are ranked 19th in the country in triples per game (0.5).

Last Meeting: (CSS All-Time Record vs. UW-Eau Claire: 6-9)
The Saints defeated the Blugolds in Ashland last season by a 3-2 score. Jan Falk earned the win, while Bonnie Kowalczyk (Menomonee Falls, Wis./Menomonee Falls HS) had two RBIs.