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Box Score 2 MINNEAPOLIS – The St. Scholastica softball team saw its 19-game win streak come to an end on Monday night with a pair of losses to Gustavus Adolphus College at the University of Minnesota's Jane Sage Cowless Stadium.
The Saints dropped game one 11-3 and fell in the nightcap 6-2 in the non-conference doubleheader. The Golden Gusties (28-8) are positioned second in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) standings.
In the opener, the Saints jumped out to a 2-0 lead after the second inning as
Bonnie Kowalczyk (Menomonee Falls, Wis./Menomonee Falls HS) led off the inning with a solo home run and later in the inning
Emily Schiro (Brooklyn Park, Minn./Armstrong HS) drove in
Molly Jazdzewski (Duluth, Minn./Duluth Central HS) with a RBI single.
From the fourth inning on it was all Gusties. Gustavus hit a solo home run in the fourth to cut the margin to one. The Gusties then scored three runs in the fifth to take a 4-2 lead. After two more runs in the sixth, Gustavus put the game out of reach plating five in the top of the seventh.
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Merryssa Tiedeman (Zumbrota, Minn/Zumbrota-Mazeppa HS) sacrifice fly in the bottom of the seventh made the final score 11-3 Golden Gusties.
Darcy Roach (East Grand Forks, Minn./Sacred Heart HS) picked up the loss for the Saints, striking out six, while allowing 13 hits. CSS managed just five hits, while committing four errors defensively. Schiro had a pair of hits to lead the offense.
In the nightcap, the Gusties scored the first six runs of the game as the Saints were held off the scoreboard until the sixth inning in a 6-2 loss.
Gustavus scored a run in the first and two in the second to take a 3-0 lead. The Gusties then hit a three-run home run in the fifth to make it 6-0.
Tiff Hudack (Ashland, Wis./Ashland HS) would hit a RBI single in the sixth and
Theresa Tauer (Plymouth, Minn./Wayzata HS) would get a RBI groundout in the seventh to make the final score 6-2. The RBI for Tauer gives her the most RBIs in program history with 152, breaking Laura Heise's record.
Jordan Spiering (Mounds View, Minn./Irondale HS) picked up the loss for the Saints. Tauer,
Kali Carlson (Duluth, Minn/Duluth Central HS) and
Barb Malyuk (Ashland, Wis./Ashland HS) each had two hits to lead CSS offensively.
The Saints (29-10) will host the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC) Tournament on Friday and Saturday at Kenwood Field. Action begins at 10 a.m. both days. The Saints, the No. 1 seed, will open the double-elimination tournament with Northland College at noon on Friday.