Notables
-First games played this season at Kenwood Field
-Fourre has six home runs the last two days, including four consecutive – T-2nd most in NCAA DIII history
-Fourre has 13 RBIs the last four games
DULUTH, Minn. (
csssaints.com) – For the second consecutive day, the St. Scholastica softball team swept Northland College. However, this time the sweep took place at Kenwood Field and was in non-conference play on Wednesday.
Game 1: CSS 12, Northland 1 (F/5)
The Saints scored seven runs in the first inning en route to a 12-1 victory in five innings.
Sophomore
Josie Fourre (Albany, Minn./Albany HS) hit a three-run home run in the first inning with
Alex Wurzer (Inver Grove Heights, Minn./Simley HS) delivering a RBI single,
Sydney Plemel (Sauk Rapids, Minn./Sauk Rapids-Rice HS) a sacrifice fly and
Nicole Anders (Port Angeles, Wash./Sequim HS) a RBI double as part of the inning.
Fourre then hit solo home run in the second inning to give her four home runs in four consecutive at-bats dating back to yesterday. That is tied for the second-most in NCAA Division III history, but it is not a program record. Now Head Coach
Rilee Dawson holds the national record with six consecutive at-bats with a home run.
CSS tacked on three more runs between the third and fourth innings to win 12-1 by mercy rule.
Maggie Schley (Mounds View, Minn./Irondale HS) pitched three innings, striking out three to earn the win.
Tori Berg (Hibbing, Minn./Hibbing HS) pitched the final two innings, scattering three hits. Anders joined Fourre with multiple hits in the contest.
Game 2: CSS 13, Northland 5 (F/5)
The Saints fell behind 4-0 early to the LumberJills (6-24) as the rain came down, but rallied by scoring at least three runs in each of their final four at-bats to win 13-5 in five innings.
Trailing 4-0, the Saints got things going in the bottom of the second inning. Plemel drew a bases loaded walk and that was followed by a
Krysta Felber (Rogers, Minn./Rogers HS) RBI single.
Hannah Thul (Superior, Wis./Superior HS) then drove in a run with a sacrifice fly to make it 4-3.
Olivia Howe (Scandia, Minn./Forest Lake HS) tied the game at 4-4 to lead off the third inning with a triple down the right field line and then scored on a Northland throwing error. Later in the inning, Wurzer drew a bases loaded walk and Plemel drove in two more runs to make it 7-4 Saints.
After Northland got one run back in the top of the fourth, Fourre hit a two-run home run in the bottom half to make it 9-5. That gives her five home runs in her last six at-bats (grounded out in first AB of game two) and six home runs in the last two days.
With the score at 10-5 entering the bottom of the fifth, the Saints hit three consecutive triples and then Fourre ended it with a sacrifice fly to make the final 13-5.
Howe picked up the victory in the pitcher's circle, going 3.2 innings. Howe and Thul each had a pair of hits to lead the offense. Both of Howe's hits were triples.
Up Next
The Saints (19-13) travel to Minneapolis tomorrow to face North Central University (Minn.) in an Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC) doubleheader. Game one is scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m.
