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Derek Montgomery
5
Winner St. Scholastica CSS 1-0
4
Mount Mary MOUNTMAR 1-4
Winner
St. Scholastica CSS
1-0
5
Final
4
Mount Mary MOUNTMAR
1-4
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E
St. Scholastica CSS 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 6 1
Mount Mary MOUNTMAR 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 4 10 1

W: Howe, Olivia (1-0) L: Nester, Adrianna (0-0)

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Blackburn (IL) BCSB 0-4
7
Winner St. Scholastica CSS 2-0
Blackburn (IL) BCSB
0-4
4
Final
7
St. Scholastica CSS
2-0
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Blackburn (IL) BCSB 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 4 9 2
St. Scholastica CSS 0 1 0 0 6 0 X 7 8 1

W: Rosenthal, Haley (1-0) L: Hughes, Baylee (0-0)

Game Recap: Softball |

Softball Opens Season 2-0 Down in Rochester

Notables
-CSS starts 2-0 for the second straight season
-Fourre had four RBIs on the day
-Rosenthal wins first collegiate start in the pitcher's circle


ROCHESTER, Minn. (csssaints.com) – The St. Scholastica softball team won a pair of games to open its 2020 season on Saturday, defeating Mount Mary University (Wis.) 5-3 in eight innings and Blackburn College (Ill.) 7-3 in the second game of the Luther College (Iowa) Dome Tournament.

CSS 5, Mount Mary 3 (F/8)
The Saints began their season by plating two runs in the top of the first on an Olivia Howe (Scandia, Minn./Forest Lake HS) two-run single that brought in Nicale Anders and Hannah Thul (Superior, Wis./Superior HS).

The Blue Angels (1-4) were able to score an unearned run in the third inning, but the score remained 2-1 until two outs in the bottom of the seventh. With Mount Mary down to its final out, it would get a RBI single to tie the contest at 2-2 and the send the game to extra innings.

The international tiebreaker rule was put into effect, placing a runner at second base at the start of each inning. In the top of the eighth, CSS got a big, two-out, two-run single from Josie Fourre (Albany, Minn./Albany HS) to score both Thul and Autumn Siers (Superior, Wis./Superior HS) and make it 4-2. Mara Seurer (New Prague, Minn./New Prague HS) followed with another RBI-single to plate Fourre and extend the lead to 5-2.

In the bottom frame, the Blue Angels loaded the bases with no outs. After an infield fly for the first round, they got a run-scoring single to make it 5-3. Mount Mary would then get doubled off on a fly ball to right fielder Megan Hautajarvi (Duluth, Minn./Duluth Denfeld HS) to end the game at 5-3.

Howe and Seurer each had a pair of hits to lead the offense. Howe also scattered 10 hits to earn the win in the pitcher's circle.

CSS 7, Blackburn 3
The Saints followed the game one win, by scoring the first seven runs in a 7-3 victory over Blackburn.

Fourre had a RBI single in the second inning to make it 1-0. St. Scholastica opened the game up in the fifth ininng with six runs coming across. Karissa Ratcliff (North Branch, Minn./North Branch HS) had a RBI double to score Kayla Christopherson (Zimmerman, Minn./Zimmerman HS (Itasca CC)). Anders followed with a RBI single, scoring Ratcliff. Blackburn errors then alllowed four more Saints to score in the inning to make it 7-0.

The Beavers (0-4) were able to score three runs in the sixth inning and then added another in the seventh to make the final 7-4.

Fourre was 2-for-3 with a pair of RBIs to lead the CSS offense. Haley Rosenthal (Mahtomedi, Minn./Mahtomedi HS) struck out six in her first collegiate start to earn the win.

Up Next
The Saints are back in action tomorrow (Sunday) when they take on Dominican University (Ill.) at 4 p.m. and Edgewood College (Wis.) at 6 p.m.

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