COMMERCE, Texas – Redemption and a sweep. The Augustana softball team earned a sweep on Saturday, topping St. Mary's (TX) 13-4, then earning a redemption victory over No. 7 Texas A&M – Commerce, 6-1.
 
Augustana moves to 3-1 on the season while St. Mary's falls to 3-6 overall. A&M – Commerce picks up its third loss of the season to fall to 4-3.
 
In the process on Saturday, senior Kendall Cornick set a school record with seven RBI in the day's first game against St. Mary's while hitting a pair of home runs.
 
Game 1: No. 3 Augustana 13, St. Mary's (TX) 4
It was the Kendall Cornick show as she set the school record with seven RBI in a single game. She got the scoring underway in the opening frame with a solo shot off the scoreboard in left-center field.
 
In the second inning, Cornick had a bases-clearing double, scoring three runs, to give AU the 4-1 lead.
 
With the same score in the fourth, it was again Cornick with a double, this time down the right-field line which scored Abbie Lund and gave AU a 5-1 lead.

At this point, the skies opened and a rain delay ensued for nearly three and a half hours.
 
After play resumed in the fourth inning, the Vikings picked right back up where they left off as Ashley Mickschl singled, scoring Cornick and Mary Pardo. A couple of batters later, Abby Lien singled scoring Mickschl to give the Vikings a commanding 8-1 lead.
 
The Rattlers got three runs back, all unearned, in the bottom of the fourth.
 
However, the fifth inning was all Augustana with five runs scored in the frame. Mary Pardo tripled in Abbie Lund. The next at-bat, Cornick hit her second home run of the day. Then a few batters later, Torri Chute hit her second home run of the season, giving Augustana the 13-4 lead.
 
Mickschl shut down the Rattlers in order in the bottom of the fifth for the run-rule victory.
 
Cornick concluded the game 4-for-4 with seven RBI, two home runs and three runs scored while Abbie Lund was 2-for-3 with three runs scored. Chute totaled two RBI on her home run. Mickschl, who picked up her first win in the circle, gave up four runs, just one earned, while striking out four.
 
Game 2: No. 3 Augustana 6, No. 7 Texas A&M-Commerce 1
It was all Augustana in the rematch from Friday's 2-1 extra-inning Viking loss. After a quiet first inning, Augustana put two runs on the scoreboard in the second, third and fourth innings.
 
Abby Lien got the scoring started in the second inning with a home run into right field, her second of the season. Two batters later, it was Delaney Young getting in on the four-base action as she sent one past the left-center field fence.
 
In the third inning, Lien singled into centerfield scoring Ashley Mickschl and Kendall Cornick for the 4-0 lead.
 
Then in the fourth inning, Abbie Lund tripled in Young and Amanda Dickmeyer for the commanding 6-0 lead.
 
The Lions could only muster one run, and that came in the bottom of the fifth as Uxua Modrego singled in Da'Jia Davis from third.
 
Amber Elliott picked up her second win of the season for the Vikings with the complete-game three-hitter. She struck out nine while giving up just the one run.
 
Lien ended game two with three hits, three RBI and a run scored while Young was 2-for-3 with two runs scored.
 
Up Next
Augustana concludes its stay in Texas on Sunday by travelling to Tyler, Texas, for two games. First, the Vikings face Texas Woman's at 10 a.m. followed by a contest with No. 4-ranked UT Tyler. That game is slated for 12:30 p.m.