Oles stop skid in split with Cobbers

Mike Ludwig
April 19, 2009

MOORHEAD, Minn. - The St. Olaf softball team split its series with Concordia College-Moorhead on Sunday, dropping the first game 2-0 before a 4-1 win in the second to stop the team's 13-game losing skid.

Concordia 2, St. Olaf 0
The Cobbers' Maddie Haroldson hit a two-run homer in the third and pitcher Kesley Jones held St. Olaf to three hits in complete game shutout victory.

St. Olaf pitcher Katie Truax took the loss despite a quality start. She allowed six hits and a walk while striking out six in six innings.

Haroldson's homerun came with two outs in the third.

St. Olaf 4, Concordia 1
Ali Berens went 3-for-4 with three RBIs and Ellen Larson 2-for-4 with two runs as the Oles picked up the win, the team's first since an April 4 sweep of Macalester.

Berens had a run-scoring single in the first and RBI doubles in the third and seventh.

The Oles' starting pitcher Erin Johnson went the distance scattering five hits and a walk in the victory, her second of 2009. The Cobbers' Sara Gruber hit a two-out homer in the seventh inning to spoil Johnson's bid at a shutout.

The win ended the team's losing streak, which saw the Oles fall five times by two runs or less.

St. Olaf plays at Hamline University on Tuesday.

Contact media relations specialist Mike Ludwig at (507) 786-3834 or ludwigm@stolaf.edu.