MOORHEAD, Minn. – Ally Norton (Fy./Norfolk, Mass./King Philip Regional) made her first collegiate start in game one and pitched the Carleton College softball team to a 2-1 win at Concordia College-Moorhead. The Knights lost game two, 9-1 (5 inn.)
 
GAME 1 RECAP
Norton went the distance in earning her first victory. She walked one, struck out one, and scattered seven singles with the only blemish being a second-inning solo home run by Valerie Kolstad.
 
Norton has yielded only one run over her first 12.2 collegiate innings, good for a 0.55 ERA.
 
The Carleton (4-12, 4-12 MIAC) offense managed only two hits against Megan Gavin, the Cobbers' (18-18, 6-12 MIAC) all-time strikeout leader, but that proved to be enough as the Knights used both hits to score runs.
 
Maris Daleo (Sr./Rockford, Ill./Stillman Valley) led off the game with a single, advanced on a passed ball and a wild pitch, and then scored on a grounder off the bat of Trina Eichel (Jr./Alameda, Calif./Alameda).
 
In the top of the fifth, Cassie Cunniff's (So./Mt. Prospect, Ill./Prospect) single plated pinch runner Helen Moses (Fy./Denver, Colo./Denver East) with the go-ahead run.
 
GAME 2 RECAP
Once again Carleton scored in the top of the first as Brooke McKelvey (Jr./West Linn, Ore./West Linn) singled, moved up on Eichel's walk and scored on an error.
 
Unfortunately, the Knights collected only one other hit in the game, a third inning single by Daleo.
 
Meanwhile, the Cobbers scored twice in the bottom of the first and tacked on five more tallies in the third inning. The hosts then used a single and four walks to plate the final two runs and end the game in the fifth inning.
 
UP NEXT FOR THE KNIGHTS
Carleton heads to Gustavus Adolphus College for a doubleheader on Saturday, May 1.