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Monday, May 14, 2012
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 Last Week’s Games
NCAA Central Region Tournament
5/11 Concordia-St. Paul 3 at Augustana 9
5/12 Concordia-St. Paul 2 at Augustana 10 (5)

Upcoming Games
NCAA Softball Elite 8 - Louisville, Ky. 
5/16 No.3 Kutztown vs No. 16 Augustana9:00 am
5/16 No. 1 Valdosta State vs No. 24 UC-Davis11:30 am
5/16 St. Joseph (Ind.) vs. No. 18 So. Conn. St.2:00 pm
5/16 No. 2 Central Oklahoma vs. Flagler 4:30 pm
All Times Central
Double Elimination Format

Augustana Secures Super Regional Title, Trip to Elite 8
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – No. 16 Augustana clinched a berth to the national tournament with a 10-2 victory in five innings over Concordia University, St. Paul in Game 2 of the super regional on Saturday. Augustana won Game 1 on Friday 9-3. The last time Augustana was at the national tournament was 1998. Augustana improves to 53-10, while CU finishes its season at 33-23. Head coach Gretta Melsted reached a milestone of 300 career wins with the victory. Offensively, Taylor Kapsch was 2 for 2 with a home run and Elizabeth Murray was 2 for 2 with a walk and an RBI. Kelsey Kalkman finished the game with a 2 for 4 performance that included a home run and an RBI. Jenelle Trautmann started the game for Augustana and threw 4.0 innings and allowed six hits and two runs. She also had three strikeouts. Durland threw the fifth inning and had a strikeout. Ashley Kluever started the game for CU from the circle and threw 3.1 innings with four walks, six hits and eight runs allowed. Ashley Kappes threw the final 1.2 innings and gave up two runs (one earned) on three hits. Augustana gave up two quick runs in the first on four CU singles, but were able to put some offense together in the third after Kapsch smacked a 3-2 pitch over the right-center fence. CU threatened again in the bottom of the third after putting runners on second and third with no outs, but Trautmann put together a strikeout and ground out before Winskowski ranged far to her left to track down a deep fly ball. The Vikings continued to hit Kluever in the third when Kalkman led off with a hard shot over the right field wall to tie the game at two. Matley Jones was hit by a pitch in the next at-bat and moved to second on a bunt single by Chelsi Winskowski before Kapsch was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Theresa McMahon then delivered with a hard single through the left side that scored Kalkman and Winskowski. With runners on second and third and one out, Murray hit a ground ball past a diving shortstop to push Kapsch home. The inning continued after Trautmann was intentionally walked to re-load the bases and Spanton earned a walk to force McMahon home. Kalkman singled into center field for her second hit of the inning that scored Murray and Jones hit a sacrifice fly into right that scored Trautmann and moved Spanton to third. Winskowski then reached first on an error as Spanton came home to put Augustana up 9-2. The Vikings pushed the lead to eight in the fifth after Murray was hit by a pitch with one out and came around to score on Spanton’s double into right field.

NSIC Softball Team Notes:
Augustana
No. 16 Augustana (53-10) will face No. 3 Kutztown (Pa.) (50-5) in the first round of the national tournament in Louisville, Ky., on Wednesday at 9 a.m. CDT. Augustana will face either No. 1 Valdosta State or No. 24 UC San Diego in the next round.

Concordia-St. Paul
The Golden Bears lost in the Central Region Super Regional to Augustana this past weekend. Concordia saw the careers of Katie Anderson, Calli Brennan and Erin Tjornhom end this past weekend.
Anderson finished with 247 hits in her career, second most all time in school history. She also finishes with 108 stolen bases most all time in school history and was only thrown out five times in a 113 opportunities. Her 160 runs scored is second most in a Golden Bear jersey. In addition she was second in triples with 11 and third in total bases with 328. Brennan who had two hits on Saturday moved up to fourth all time in hits with 219 in her career. She is seventh all time with 97 runs scored as well. Her batting average of .331 ties her for eighth all time and was ninth in slugging percentage. Her 34 doubles in her career put her fifth in school history and added 15 home runs, eighth all time. Her 140 RBI is second most in school history and sixth in total bases with 312. In just two years Tjornhom is one of the best sluggers in school history finishing third in batting average (.374), first in slugging percentage (.582), third in on base percentage (.424) and sixth in homers with 16. She also stole 25 bases in her career which is eighth all time in school history.