Notables
-Doubleheader originally scheduled for Ashland, but games flipped so CSS batted first
-Rydlund extends reached base streak to 20 games
-Rydlund and Bremer each on an 11-game hitting streak
-Season-high seven doubles in game two win
 

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DULUTH, Minn. (csssaints.com) -- The College of St. Scholastica softball team defeated Northland College by scores of 8-4 and 16-4 in doubleheader action on Tuesday at Saints Field.

Game 1: CSS 8, Northland 4
The Saints would take the lead early, scoring three runs in the first inning, and would lead for the rest of the game. A Maggie Schley (Mounds View, Minn./Irondale HS) infield single scored Alexa Bremer (Forest Lake, Minn./Forest Lake HS) and an error allowed Hannah Thul (Superior, Wis./Superior HS) to score. Madison Harris (Billings, Mont./Billings West HS) followed with a RBI single.

Schley and Harris added RBIs in the third as did Killyn Kanters (Hayward, Wis./HACIL Charter School) to extend the lead to 6-1. An RBI triple by Josie Fourre (Albany, Minn./Albany HS) and a RBI double by Bremer in the sixth inning made it 8-1. Northland scored three late to make the final 8-4.

Vanessa Kohl (Duluth, Minn./Duluth East HS) won the game on the mound for the Saints, striking out 10 in the complete game. Schley was 2-for-4 with two RBIs and two runs scored.

Game 2: CSS 16, Northland 4
The Saints put the nightcap away early by scoring seven runs in the first inning and adding three more in the second to take a 10-0 lead. CSS put together five RBI doubles in the first inning alone. Kanters had a RBI triple as part of the three-run second inning.

The LumberJills would make the game go the distance however, as it cut the lead to 10-4 in the sixth. However, the Saints added six runs in the seventh to make the final 16-4.

On the mound for the Saints, Heidi Shelton (Duluth, Minn./Proctor HS (St. Cloud Tech and CC)) limited Nortland to one run in three innings of work. Audi Blonk (Spooner, Wis./Spooner HS) pitched the last four innings for the Saints and struck out six to earn her second win of the season. The Saints had seven doubles and two triples in the contest. Harris was 3-for-4 with two RBIs and two runs scored.

Up Next
The Saints (14-11, 8-2 UMAC) travel across the bridge tomorrow for a pivotal Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC) doubleheader with the University of Wisconsin-Superior. The first game is set to begin at 11 a.m.