DUNDAS, Minn. – Junior Julie Graf threw a no-hitter with 16 strikeouts in game one, as the St. Olaf College softball team swept Martin Luther College by scores of 3-0 and 9-2 in a non-conference doubleheader on Saturday evening at the Dundas Dome.

In the opener, Graf allowed just two baserunners and fanned 16 for St. Olaf (2-2) in her 24th-career game with double-digit strikeouts. In the nightcap, Martin Luther (0-4) led 2-1 after an inning and a half, but the Oles' bats came alive with seven runs in the second and third innings as part of a season-high 14-hit game.

St. Olaf 3, Martin Luther 0 | Box

Graf surrendered just one walk and one hit batter on her way to throwing the second no-hitter of her career. The junior also threw a no-no in a 1-0 win over Augsburg in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) Playoffs last spring.

After a one-out walk in the top of the first, Graf struck out eight-straight Knights and did not allow another baserunner until a two-out hit-by-pitch in the top of the fifth. The junior proceeded to strike out six of the final seven batters she faced to finish off the no-hitter.

Morgan Palubicki and Rebecca Pruss limited the Oles to just five hits in the game, but St. Olaf capitalized on two Martin Luther errors in a two-run second inning and added an insurance run in the fifth.

In a scoreless game, senior Alison Curry reached second on a throwing error to lead off the bottom of the second. After a sacrifice bunt moved her to third, Curry came around to score on an RBI single to center by first year Sydney Robson for her first collegiate RBI. Robson moved to second on an error on the play before sophomore Jordan Melz plated her with a single to center to make it 2-0.

The score remained 2-0 until the home half of the fifth when sophomore Kaelin Sbrocco singled to the pitcher, stole second, advanced to third on a wild pitch and scored on a RBI groundout by Graf to cap the scoring. The closest the Knights came to a hit came with two outs in the sixth when Melz robbed Kayla Rosenbaum of a base hit with a sliding catch in the hole.

St. Olaf 9, Martin Luther 2 | Box

Sophomores Ally Bode and Hannah Matthies each had three hits in game two for St. Olaf, while Melz and first year Kaleigh Santmyer each had two hits and two RBI. Bode also drove in a pair of runs, as the quartet combined for six runs scored and seven RBI in the win.

Sophomore Abby Grismer earned her first win of the season with 5.2 innings of one-hit relief of Carly Dammann, who made her first collegiate start in the circle.

The Oles jumped on top in the bottom of the first when Bode led off with a double to left center, stole third and scored on a ground out by Grismer. Martin Luther took a short-lived 2-1 lead in the next half inning, capitalizing on three walks and an error to score a pair of runs without a hit.

St. Olaf responded with four runs in the bottom of the second to take the lead for good. First years Andrea Conway and Tarah DeCroock started the inning with the first hits of their careers, leaving runners on second and third with nobody out for Santmyer, who singled in Conway to tie it at 2-2. Later in the inning, Melz drove in a run with a single to shortstop and Bode plated two more with a ground-rule down the left-field line to stretch the Oles' lead to 5-2.

In the third, the Oles added three more runs, with Santmyer and Melz each driving in runs with singles. Matthies added a run-scoring double to the gap in left center in the fourth after Grismer had led off the inning with a single and Grismer took care of the rest in the circle by not allowing a runner past second after the second inning.

St. Olaf is next in action at the ACM Dome Tournament in Rochester on Saturday and Sunday, Mar. 2-3. The Oles face UW-River Falls at 10 a.m. and No. 10 Luther at 12 p.m. on day one of the tournament.