ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Macalester College softball team dropped a pair of games at St. Catherine, 13-5 and 12-4 in a MIAC doubleheader Tuesday afternoon. The losses eliminated the Scots from MIAC Playoff contention and ended their season at 7-15. The Wildcats improve to 21-11 overall and 16-6 in the MIAC.

Trailing 3-0 after one inning in Game 1, Macalester pushed five runs across in the top of the second. Senior Audrey Meade (Cedar Hills, Utah/Pleasant Grove) blasted a three-run home run, while senior Anya Lindell Paulson (St. Louis Park, Minn./St. Louis Park) and junior Emily Bergin (Houston, Texas/St. Thomas Episcopal School) each had RBI singles in the inning. The Wildcats answered with six runs in the bottom of the second to lead, 9-5. The Scots had a runner on second base in each of the next three innings, but St. Kate's kept Macalester off the scoreboard the rest of the way while scoring a run in the fourth and three in the fifth to end the game. Meade went 2-for-3 at the plate in the loss.

In the second game, Meade picked up where she left off, leading off the game with a double and scoring on a double by junior Mackenzie Clarke (Redwood City, Calif./Sequoia) for a 1-0 lead. The Wildcats tied the score in the bottom of the first, then scored six runs on a leadoff homer by Mikayla Gran, seven walks and three wild pitches to make the score 7-1. In the top of the third, senior Kate Lawhead (Battle Ground, Wash./Prairie) singled home Meade and later scored along with senior Kennedy Kechely (Rochester, Minn./Mayo) on an error to pull within three, 7-4. Again St. Kate's ended the game early with five runs, four of them unearned, in the bottom of the fifth for a 12-4 victory.

Meade went 2-for-3 again with two runs, while Clarke also tallied two hits. Meade's big day offensively helped raise her batting average to a team-best .407, which currently ranks seventh in the MIAC.

The doubleheader marked the final games in the Orange and Blue for seniors Kechely, Lawhead, Meade, Anya Lindell Paulson (St. Louis Park, Minn./St. Louis Park) and Olive Tambou (San Francisco, Calif./Lowell).