Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Minneapolis, Minn. – The Crown softball team played Northland College and UW-Superior on Friday, with both games being held at North Central.  The Storm defeated the Jills 10-7 before dropping a 13-1 decision to the Yellowjackets.

Crown used an impressive power display against the Lumber Jills to propel the team to a victory in the opener.  Liz Kemp homered twice and collected five RBI and Kiara Hurt homered and tripled.  The duo of Maria Lilienthal and Ashley Earick each doubled as Crown pounded out 13 hits for the game.

Abbie Carroll threw a complete game to earn the victory, allowing seven runs (six earned) while striking out two over seven innings. 

Game two was a tough one for Crown as the Storm were only able to must one run on two hits over five innings.  The silver lining was that Kemp doubled in a run, her twelfth two-bagger of the year, tying her for the Crown single-season record. 

The Storm will stay busy with a pair of conference games against Bethany Lutheran and Martin Luther, hosted at Northwestern (Minn.) tomorrow (4/23).