MANKATO, Minn. – The Carleton College softball team split a pair of games at the Bethany Lutheran Invitational. The Knights started the day with a 2-0 triumph over Concordia University Wisconsin but lost to Bethany Lutheran College, 9-0 (5 inn.), to wrap up the day.
Carleton 2, Concordia Wisconsin 0
Sydney Trentman tossed a three-hit shutout and
Emily Vogel belted a two-run home run to account for all of the scoring.
For Trentman (2-0), this was her 14th career complete game and sixth career shutout. She collected seven strikeouts against only one walk. Trentman fanned the side in the third and fourth innings and permitted only one runner past second base.
Jade Thach drew a walk to start the bottom of the second inning, and Vogel followed with her first collegiate long ball, sending a drive over the left-field wall.
The Knights (2-2) were limited to only four hits in the contest, but three of those went for extra bases. In addition to Vogel's homer,
Esme Song smacked a one-out double in the first and
Adriana Wiggins tripled in the third inning.
Bethany Lutheran 9, Carleton 0 (5 inn.)
The Vikings (6-1) plated an unearned run in the top of the first and added another tally in the second despite not getting the ball out of the infield. The hosts put the game out of reach with a seven-run rally in the fourth inning, with five of those runs coming with two out including four unearned tallies.
Wiggins had her second extra-base hit of the day, a fourth-inning double. Thach and
Gloria Hronek had the other hits for Carleton.
The Knights used four pitchers in the game.
Claire Hester (0-1) got the start and took the loss, yielding two runs (one earned) over 1.2 innings of 1-hit ball with three walks and two strikeouts.
Genevieve Lyon was the most effective Carleton hurler in the contest, retiring Bethany Lutheran 1-2-3 in the fifth inning.
Up Next for the Knights
Carleton will play two times at the Rochester (Minn.) Dome Games on Saturday, Feb. 28. The Knights face Luther College at 11:00 a.m. and University of Wisconsin-Stout at 1:00 p.m.
