SUPERIOR, Wis. – The Macalester College softball team allowed just one hit while scoring 10 runs in a 10-0 victory in the first game of a MIAC doubleheader with St. Scholastica Sunday afternoon at Superior High School. The Scots, who lost Game 2, 15-7, are now 14-20 overall and 8-10 in the conference, while the Saints are now 13-18, 5-12 MIAC.

In the first game, junior Regan Brodine (Pittsburgh, Pa./North Allegheny) singled home first year Sophie Futchko (Prince Frederick, Md./Huntingtown) in the top of the first inning for a 1-0 lead. Macalester then scored six runs in the top of the second for a commanding 7-0 advantage. Futchko hit a two-run single, sophomore Elsa Church (St. Louis, Mo./Kirkland) delivered an RBI double and Brodine plated senior Mackenzie Clarke (Redwood City, Calif./Sequoia) with a single in the inning. After Futchko drove in senior Emily Bergin (Houston, Texas/St. Thomas Episcopal School) in the third, the Scots scored three more runs in the fourth. Brodine doubled to score Clarke, then came home on an error. First year Dorri Amundson (San Francisco, Calif./The Bay School of San Francisco) doubled for her first hit as a Scot, then scored on a grounder by junior Gabriella Plisko (Alpharetta, Ga./The Galloway School).

Macalester's pitching did the rest, holding the Saints to one hit. First year Kaitlyn Pistorius (Parker, Colo./Legend) started and did not allow a hit in three innings of work. Church pitched the final two innings and gave up zero runs on one hit. Brodine went 3-for-4 with three RBIs, while Futchko, Clarke and first year Madeleine Kemper (Sioux Falls, S.D./Lincoln) each had two hits.

The Scots started the second game on fire, tallying six runs on seven hits in the top of the first inning. Church, Clarke, Kemper and junior Jessica Katzin (Chicago, Ill./Jones College Prep) all hit doubles, while Bergin had a two-run single and first year Renee Nicholson (Downers Grove, Ill./Downers Grove South) plated Kemper with a single. St. Scholastica stormed back with four runs in the bottom of the first, three runs in the second and two in the third to lead 9-6. Church scored on a groundout by Clarke in the fourth to make the score 9-7, but the Saints put four runs on the board in the fifth and ended the game with two runs in the sixth.

Clarke and Katzin had two hits apiece, while Church scored a pair of runs. Church also pitched an inning of relief, allowing two unearned runs on two hits and a walk.

Macalester continues MIAC play with a doubleheader at St. Olaf on Thursday, April 28. The first pitch is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. in Northfield, Minn.