Rock Island, Ill. – The Carroll University softball team picked up two big wins on the road on Saturday afternoon at Augustana. The Pioneers finished game one by a score of 7-1 and took game two 3-2.
 
The Pioneers (8-8, 4-4 CCIW) finished with 15 total hits in today's doubleheader, with three total coming from Sierra Grubor and Allyssa Demma. Kaylee Learman and Lauren Harshbarger collected two RBIs each, and Claudia Spencer scored the most runs with two. Learman smoked two doubles, including the go-ahead double to give the Pios the lead late in game two. Bridget Rath, Spencer, and Harshbarger all collected stolen bases too.
 
Game 1
Amanda Osterhus tossed her second straight complete game and notched the fourth no-hitter of her career. She finished with one earned run, five walks, and nine strikeouts.
 
Carroll plated three runs in the top of the second, with the first coming from Emily Green's RBI single that scored Spencer. Mathena Higgins collected an RBI walk to keep the bases loaded, and a Grubor fielder's choice scored Green. Harshbarger picked up an RBI single that scored Demma from third base in the top of the third, to give Carroll a 4-0 lead.
 
Augie's first run of the game came thanks to a leadoff walk that moved around the base paths on putouts in the infield. Osterhus ended the damage that inning with a strikeout.
 
Learman's leadoff double in the top of the fifth started the scoring for Carroll once again. Lyndsey Rost, who pinch ran for Learman, scored thanks to Rath reaching on a left fielder's error. Harshbarger's second RBI of the game scored Rath unearned, and a Mundt single brought in one more run for a 7-1 lead. Augie threatened with two outs in the bottom of the sixth with the bases loaded, but a nice play by Harshbarger ended the trouble.
 
Game 2
The Vikings, who started game two as the visitors, put its first run on the board in the top of the third inning after a leadoff double. Grace Bradley started game two, pitched 3.1 innings, allowing four hits, one run, while striking out a tied for career-best five.
After two Pio errors loaded the bases, Bradley was replaced by Breanna Roberts. A 5-2 PO by Spencer and Wimmer and a fly-out ended the trouble in the top of the fourth. Carroll added its first run a half-inning later on a Demma single that advanced Grubor from first on an error in right field.
 
A Mundt lead-off single in the bottom of the sixth, followed by a Higgins single, opened the door for Learman's one-out, two-RBI double to take a 3-1 lead. After loading the bases, two strikeouts stopped the scoring for Carroll.
 
Augie led off its final inning with a double to right field, who scored on an RBI single two outs later. Roberts forced a line out to first base to end the game for Carroll, taking her first win of the season after going 3.2 innings, allowing three hits, one run, one walk, and one strikeout.
 
Carroll returns to Kilgour Field for a Tuesday afternoon matchup with North Central, with the first pitch slated for 3 PM. The Pios' last home win against the Cardinals came in 2018.