ST. PAUL, Minn. – In its final regular-season meeting with St. Thomas, the Macalester College softball team beat the Tommies, 4-2 in the second game of a MIAC doubleheader Saturday afternoon at the Macalester Softball Complex. The Scots, who lost Game 1, are now 1-3 overall and in the MIAC, while St. Thomas is now 10-4, 3-1 MIAC.

Trailing 2-0 in the bottom of the third, Macalester scored three runs, all with two outs, to take the lead. Senior Kate Lawhead (Battle Ground, Wash./Prairie) singled home junior Mackenzie Clarke (Redwood City, Calif./Sequoia), then first year Jessica Katzin (Chicago, Ill./Jones College Prep) singled to plate junior Anna Leidner (New York, N.Y./Bronx Science) and senior Kennedy Kechely (Rochester, Minn./Mayo) with the tying and go-ahead runs.

Then in the fourth, first year Mandy Morrical (Mount Vernon, Iowa/Mount Vernon) scored on an error to put the Scots up 4-2. Sophomore pitcher Joia Simonson (Pardeeville, Wis./Portage) did the rest, holding the Tommies to just a seventh-inning infield single over the final three innings. Simonson went the distance, allowing two unearned runs on six hits while walking two and striking out two in seven innings. The victory marked the fourth time in the last five full seasons that the Scots have defeated St. Thomas.

Lawhead went 3-for-3 with an RBI, while Katzin drove in two runs and went 2-for-3 at the plate.

In the first game, St. Thomas scored four unearned runs in the first inning and three runs in the second to take a commanding 7-0 lead. Four more runs in the sixth closed out the Tommies' 11-0 win. Kierstin Anderson-Glass blanked Macalester on two hits over five innings of work. Clarke delivered both of the Scots' hits in the loss.

Macalester hosts Saint Mary's in another MIAC doubleheader on Sunday, April 11. The Scots will honor their seniors before the first game, which starts at 12:00 p.m. at the Macalester Softball Complex.