Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 The St. Scholastica softball team was unable to pick up a win today as they lost 9-5 to Washington-St. Louis and Central College by a score of 9-3 in Pella, Iowa.

CSS 5, Washington-St. Louis 9
The Saints started off the day losing to 23^rd ranked Washington-St. Louis 9-5 on Saturday morning.

The Saints started off the game strong in the first inning with both Tiff Hudack (Ashland, Wis./Ashland HS) and Kara Warren (Duluth, Minn./Duluth Denfeld HS) singling to center field. Molly Jazdzewski (Duluth, Minn./Duluth Central HS)  would then clear the bases on a 3-run home run to left field to put the Saints up 3-0 early on.

Washington-St. Louis closed the gap to one with a home run of their own in the bottom of the first. After a scoreless second inning the Saints would increase their lead with another home run, this one coming from Kasandra McCabe (St. Peter, Minn./St. Peter HS) to put the Saints up 4-2.

The Saints defense slipped a little bit giving up 3 runs in the bottom of the third with one coming off a wild pitch, along with two more runs in both the fourth and the fifth inning to give Washington-St. Louis a 9-4 lead.

The Saints would look to start a comeback in the sixth inning after a Sydney Gordon (International Falls, Minn./Falls HS) RBI single, but the Saints would not be able to put up any more runs while leaving two runners on base, resulting in a 9-5 loss.

Chrisi Mizera (Frankfort, Ill./Lincoln-Way East HS) took the loss for the Saints going three innings while giving up 6 earned runs, walking three, and striking out one. Amanda Kalupa got the win for Washington-St. Louis pitching two innings, giving up one run on six hits and no strikeouts or walks.

CSS 3, Central College 9
The Saints dropped their afternoon game to 12^th ranked Central College by a score of 9-3.

Once again, the Saints started off strong in the first inning with a Jazdzewski RBI single, but that would be all as CSS stranded two runners on base to end the inning.

The Central College offense would explode in the second inning with seven runs on six hits and taking a commanding 7-1 lead.

There was no scoring by either team in the next three innings.

The Saints would once again look to mount a comeback in the sixth inning with another Jazdzewski RBI single, but the Saints would leave 3 runners on base to end the inning.

Central College would add a couple insurance runs in the bottom of the sixth with the Saints scoring their last run of the game in the seventh inning on a sacrifice fly RBI from Hannah Borgeson (Woodville, Wis./Baldwin-Woodville HS) to make the final score 9-3.

Micah McGuiness (Forest Lake, Minn./Forest Lake HS) would take the loss for the Saints pitching one inning, giving up six runs on four hits while walking three and striking out one. Mallory Schulenberg got the win for Central College going 5.2 innings giving up one earned run on three hits while walking three and striking out four.

The Saints continue their games in Iowa tomorrow as they play Wisconsin-Eau Claire at 10 a.m. and following that up with a game at noon against Dubuque.