ROCHESTER, Minn. – The Macalester College softball team earned a pair of wins at the Rochester Dome Games on Saturday, defeating Grinnell, 2-1 and Dubuque, 4-1. The Scots improve to 4-0 on the season with the wins.

Against Grinnell, Macalester scored a run in the top of the first inning on a double by junior G.G. Gunther (San Francisco, Calif./Lowell) that brought home first year Julia Carpenter (Stevensville, Mich./Lakeshore) for a 1-0 lead. After Grinnell tied the score with a run in the bottom of the fourth, the Scots scored the go-ahead run in the top of the fifth, when sophomore Sophie Migacz (McHenry, Ill./McHenry West) came home on an error. Migacz made the lead stand, holding Grinnell to an infield hit over the final three innings. She limited Grinnell to one run on three hits while striking out five and walking five in a complete-game effort.

In the second game, Macalester scored four runs in the bottom of the first to take control of the game, with senior Nikki Caicedo (Clinton Twp., Mich./Chippewa Valley) and junior Morghan Bean (Muscatine, Iowa/Muscatine) driving in runs. Dubuque managed to score a run in the top of the third to make the score 4-1. But Migacz allowed just two hits the rest of the way to give the Scots their second win of the day. Migacz surrendered just one run on seven hits while striking out six and walking two in seven innings.

Macalester heads to Clermont, Fla., for 10 games  over six days, starting with games against Olivet College and Smith College on Saturday, Mar. 12