ST. PAUL, Minn.- The Macalester College softball team lost two to the University of Northwestern (Minn.) in a double header today. This is the Scots first competition since their spring trip to Tucson, Arizona and the they are now 6-12 on the season.

In the first match up, the Scots fell behind seven runs by the third inning. At the top of the third the Scots first year Kennedy Kechely (Roschester, Minn./Mayo) started the Macalester of with the bases loaded for a ground out to second base and an RBI, allowing first year Kate Bond (St. Paul, Minn./St. Paul Academy) to score. The Scots continued scoring after first year Kate Lawhead's (Battle Ground, Wash./Prairie) two-run double made the score 6-3. Macalester, however, could not overtake Northwestern and the game ended 8-3 after a sixth inning run by the Eagles.  Lawhead has now hit at bat in the Scot's last seven games and leads the team in RBI's with 12 while Kechely follows in second with nine.

Against the Eagles in the second game, the Scots got on the board in the top of the first with a run of a single by Lawhead. Northwestern then came back in the bottom of the first to score four runs. The Eagles scored four more runs until at the top of the fifth Macalester's Lawhead again hit an RBI allowing junior Claire O'Connor (Piedmont, Calif./Piedmont), fourth in runs scored for Macalester, to score. The Scots scored two more after sophomore Julia Carpenter (Stevensville, Mich./Lakeshore) scored and Morghan Bean (Muscatine, Iowa/Muscatine) hit a single to lead the game to end at 8-4. 

The Scots junior pitcher Sophie Migacz (McHenry, Ill./McHenry West) is now 6-6 on the year after pitching the whole first game against the Eagles. Bean and first year Emily Cekander (River Forest, Ill./Oak Park River Forest) split the second match each pitching three innings.

The Scots return to action with a double header against Hamline University on Wed., April 4 at Hamline in St. Paul beginning at 3:30 p.m.