MINNEAPOLIS --- Crown College Softball split a doubleheader with Edgewood College on Friday afternoon at the Auggie Dome on Augsburg University's campus. In game one, the Storm eight-run ruled the Eagles, defeating Edgewood 16-7. In the second contest, the Storm bats couldn't find the same rhythm and fell to Edgewood 3-0.
Crown struck first in game one when senior
Zoe Roberts hit a bases-loaded triple to record three RBIs. First-year
Kuulei Ili followed up the triple with a single to score Roberts, and the Storm took a 4-0 lead. The Eagles countered with a run of their own to cut the lead to three, but Storm quickly added more runs in the second inning when Roberts, Ili, and senior
Olivia Dols all had RBI singles.
Edgewood then scored three more runs to make the game 8-4, but the Storm were only halfway to their total of 16 runs. In the third inning, sophomore
Telma Roesler had an RBI groundout as did junior
Laryssa Vik. In between the outs, sophomore
Liz Kemp hit a single to score Roesler. In addition, Dols scored on an error from the Eagles to make it 12-4, and the eight-run rule was in play at the end of three innings.
In the fourth inning, sophomore
Ally Adams scored Ili and sophomore
Maddie Noble on a single to add two more runs, and Dols put the ball in play to score Noble, leading to the 16-7 victory. The next inning, Noble hit a single to score first-year
Koi deLay. The Storm had an impressive five steals in the contest with Ili, Noble, deLay, Adams, and first-year
Kiara Hurt all taking a base.
First-year pitcher
Ashley Earick was credited with the win, pitching five innings and striking out one on 76 pitches. Earick improves her season record to 1-0.
First-year pitcher
Taylor Krueger received the start in game two and pitched a complete game with only two earned runs allowed in seven innings of work. Vik and senior Sam Collins had the Storm's only hits.
The Storm play again tomorrow when they return to Augsburg for a matchup against the host, the Augsburg Auggies, for a doubleheader with first pitch scheduled for 12:30 p.m.