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ROSEMOUNT, Minn. – Junior Theresa Tauer (Plymouth, Minn./Wayzata HS)'s three-run home run against Northwestern College gave the St. Scholastica softball team a 10-9 victory over the Eagles to begin the day and then the Saints breezed to a 28-0 win over Crown College to cap the action on Wednesday.

Today's two games were originally supposed to be played yesterday in St. Bonifacius, but weather forced the teams to play indoors at the Irish Dome in Rosemount, Minn.

The Saints opened with Northwestern College in morning and was in a dogfight throughout, leading only after the first and seventh innings.

CSS scored three runs to open the game in the top of the first with RBIs from Tiffany Hudack and Theresa Tauer (Plymouth, Minn./Wayzata HS). In the bottom half of the inning, the Eagles' Kristen Sigurdsen hit a two-run home run to make it 3-2.

Northwestern took the lead in the bottom of the second with three runs in the inning. The Saints tied it up at 5-5 in the third as Bonnie Kowalczyk (Menomonee Falls, Wis./Menomonee Falls HS) and Tauer drove in runs. The Eagles regained the lead at 6-5 in the bottom half, scoring on squeeze bunt.

St. Scholastica tied it up again in the fifth with a Tauer sacrifice fly, scoring Merryssa Tiedeman (Zumbrota, Minn/Zumbrota-Mazeppa HS). However, the Eagles plated two runs in the bottom of the inning and went back up 8-6. Northwestern tacked on one more run in the sixth on an Erin Wankrel home run.

With CSS trailing by three and three outs remaining in the game, Kali Carlson (Duluth, Minn/Duluth Central HS) began the seventh with a single and then advanced to third as Tiedeman followed with a double. Kowalczyk drove in Carlson on a sacrifice fly to make it 9-7. After an infield single, Tauer stepped to the plate and belted a three-run home run to over the right field fence to put the Saints ahead 10-9.

Jen Falk (Altona, Manitoba/W.C. Miller Collegiate (Rainy River CC)) came in for the Saints to close the game in the bottom half and sat the Eagles down in order to give CSS the 10-9 victory. The last time the Saints rallied from a three-run deficit to win in their final at-bat was way back in 2004 when they scored four runs in the top of the seventh to defeat Macalester.

Tauer finished 3-for-3 with six RBIs and a run scored. The six RBIs match a career-high. Brittni Johnson (Thief River Falls, Minn./Lincoln HS (Northland CC)) picked up the win to improve to 5-1 on the year, while Falk earn her second save as a Saint and first since 2009. The Eagles fall to a record of 15-16 (10-6 UMAC).

In the second game of the day, the Saints pummeled Crown College 28-0 in five innings. CSS scored at least five runs in the four innings it batted, including an 11-run third inning.

The Saints matched a program record with nine doubles in the game. 12 of the 15 Saints that saw action drove in at least one run.

Johnson and Shannen Schmidt (De Pere, Wis./De Pere HS) each had a pair of doubles, three hits and four RBIs. Shauney Moen (Oak Grove, Minn./St. Francis HS) also had three hits in the game. Tiedeman drove in three runs.

Schmidt earned the win inside the circle, allowing four hits and striking out seven for the shutout. Crown drops to a record of 0-26 (0-14 UMAC).

The Saints are now 19-11 (14-1 UMAC) will be in action on Friday and Saturday for the UMAC Crossover in Mankato, Minn. The Saints open Friday with Presentation College (10 a.m.) and Martin Luther (Noon).