Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score
The Augustana softball team, ranked 22nd in the nation, earned a doubleheader split against No. 5 Wayne State (Mich.) Saturday at the Rebel Spring Games in Kissimmee, Fla. Wayne State won the opener 4-0 before the Vikings bounced back with a 4-3 victory in Game 2.
Augustana is now 16-3 on the season, while Wayne State is 22-5.
In Game 2, the Vikings scored 2 runs in the first inning and added another run in the second inning to take a 3-0 lead. In the first, Kelsey Kalkman doubled to drive in Kayla Henke, who led off the inning with a walk. Kalkman later scored on a Wayne State error.
Chelsi Winskowski blasted a solo home run in the second to make the score 3-0.
Viking starting pitcher Britt Stewart made that lead hold up until the Warriors scored 3 runs in the fourth inning. WSU had just 2 hits in the inning, but the Warriors scored on a bases loaded walk, hit by pitch and a passed ball.
Augutana reclaimed the lead in the bottom of the fifth inning when Taylor Kapsch doubled to left centerfield to plate Stewart, who had singled 3 batters earlier.
Stewart (7-1) scattered 3 hits in picking up the complete-game victory. She struck out 4 hitters.
Offensively, Stewart and Kapsch paced the Vikings with 2 hits apiece.
The first game featured a pitcher's duel between Augustana's Chelsey Durland and Wayne State's Casey Hanes.
Augustana, which was limited to just 4 hits in the game, collected 3 hits in the top of the first inning on 1-out singles by Jenny Brown, Kalkman and Traci Fransen. However, Hanes got out of the jam by striking out Stewart and Durland to end the inning.
Wayne State scratched across a run in the bottom of the first on an RBI single by Rebecca Stanley that scored Alison Allen. Allen then made it a 2-0 game with a solo home run in the fifth inning.
The Warriors tacked on 2 insurance runs in the sixth on a 2-run single by Steph Foreman.
Durland (4-2) took the loss for Augustana as she pitched a complete-game 9-hitter. She walked 1 and struck out 3.
Hanes, meanwhile, earned the win as she struck out 12 and did not issue a walk.
Augustana concludes its spring trip on Sunday with a doubleheader against Division I Cornell University. The games are scheduled for 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. EDT.
