Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Macalester College softball team played a competitive doubleheader today against Crown College. The Scots split against the Storm, losing the first game 8-7 and winning the second game 4-3.

Down 3-0 in the bottom of the fourth, the Scots came back with three runs to tie the game. Sophomore Audrey Meade (Cedar Hills, Utah/Pleasant Grove) hit a two-run double to send senior Claire O'Connor (Piedmont, Calif./Piedmont) and sophomore Kate Lawhead (Battle Ground, Wash./Prairie) home to score. Meade then scored the tying run as sophomore Molly Hurley (Stillwater, Minn./Stillwater) hit a double and advanced Meade.

The game continued to be even as each team scored one run in the fifth and sixth innings. In the seventh, neither team could score to win and the game went into extra innings. Crown scored three runs in the top of the eighth to make the score 8-5. Then for the Scots, with a runner on first, Meade hit a homerun to center field to make the score 8-7. Macalester was unable to score any more runs and lost the first game 8-7.

But the Scots found their winning stride in the second game. In the bottom of the first, Macalester took a 1-0 lead. First year Emily Bergin (Houston, Texas/St. Thomas Episcopal School) got on base with a single to center field. She then advanced to second by a single from junior Kaela Jackson (Seattle, Wash./James A. Garfield) and to third on a hit by O'Connor. Bergin then scored the first run of the game as fellow first year Mackenzie Clarke (Redwood City, Calif./Sequoia) hit a sacrifice fly.

Macalester continued to score as Hurley, who had a hit a double earlier to get on base, was sent home by a single from Lawhead. The Storm made the score 2-2 in the top of the third but the Scots took back the lead with a run by Carpenter who was sent home off a one-run triple from Jackson.

To make it 4-2, sophomore Anya Lindell Paulson (St. Louis Park, Minn./St. Louis Park) got on first base by a fielder's choice. She was then sent home by a single from Carpenter. That proved to be the winning run as the Scots only allowed the Storm to score one more run. Macalester finished the game 4-3.

In pitching, senior Sophie Migacz (McHenry, Ill./McHenry West) pitched six innings of the first game with one strikeout. Meade pitched the all seven innings of the second game, tallied two strikeouts and closed out the win for the Scots. Meade also tallied 4 RBIs, a career high, and hit her first homerun as a Scot.

The Scots go on the road Saturday, Mar. 30, against the College of Saint Benedict in St. Joseph, Minn.