ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Macalester College softball team split a MIAC doubleheader at Hamline University, winning 5-4 before falling 0-6 Wednesday afternoon at Meredith Field. The Scots are now 14-10 overall and 2-4 in the conference, while the Pipers end the day 10-8, 5-1 MIAC.

In the first game, Macalester erased a 1-0 deficit with three runs in the top of the third. A bases-loaded single by junior Morghan Bean (Muscatine, Iowa/Muscatine) brought home junior G.G. Gunther (San Francisco, Calif./Lowell) and first year Julia Carpenter (Stevensville, Mich./Lakeshore), with sophomore Claire O'Connor (Piedmont, Calif./Piedmont) scoring on an error. After the Pipers added a run in the third, Carpenter came home on a passed ball in the fifth for a 4-2 advantage.

A pair of run-scoring singles in the bottom of the fifth allowed Hamline to tie the score at 4-4. Then in the top of the sixth, first year Kaela Jackson (Seattle, Wash./James A. Garfield) led off with a single, moved to third on a bunt and a groundout, and scored the go-ahead run on an error. The Pipers had runners on second and third with two out in the bottom of the seventh, but Bean fanned the final batter to end the game and hand Hamline its first MIAC loss of the season.

Bean went the distance in the circle, allowing four runs, three earned, on nine hits and five walks while striking out four to earn the win. Carpenter led the offense with two hits.

Hamline scored three runs in the first inning, two in the second and one in the fourth in Game 2. The Scots managed just five hits and had runners in scoring position twice, as the Pipers earned the split. Carpenter, O'Connor, Bean, Jackson and senior Nikki Caicedo (Clinton Twp., Mich./Chippewa Valley) had the hits for Macalester.

Next up for Macalester is another MIAC twinbill against Concordia College on Saturday, Apr. 8, beginning at 1:00 p.m. at the Macalester Softball Complex.