DUNDAS, Minn. – The St. Olaf College softball team pounded 28 hits on its way to sweeping Concordia-Moorhead by scores of 15-1 in five innings and 10-4 in Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) play on Saturday afternoon at the Dundas Dome.

St. Olaf (8-14, 2-2 MIAC) used a 14-run second inning to blow game one wide open on its way to a run-rule victory before breaking a 3-3 tie with five unanswered runs in game two to complete the sweep of Concordia (4-14, 0-2 MIAC). The two victories extended the Oles' winning streak to 13 games in the head-to-head series with the Cobbers.

Over the two games, St. Olaf hit .509 (28-for-55) as a team and 10 of the team's 28 hits went for extra bases (seven doubles, three triples). Sophomore Medora Rylee led the way offensively by going 6-for-8 with a double, a triple, three runs, and four RBI, including having four hits in the opener.

The Oles return to action on Tuesday, April 11 with a doubleheader at Saint Mary's University (Minn.) starting at 3:30 p.m.

St. Olaf 15, Concordia-Moorhead 1 (5 inn.) | Box Score

Already leading 1-0, St. Olaf scored 14 runs on 12 hits in the second inning, as the Oles batted around twice in the inning that included a stretch where 10-straight hitters reached base. Junior Jenna Peschel took care of the rest, holding Concordia to one unearned run to earn her second victory of the season. Peschel yielded just two hits over the five-inning complete game while walking one and striking out one.

Rylee logged her first-career four-hit game by going 4-for-4 with a triple, two runs, and three RBI to lead six Oles with multi-hit games. First year Belle Schmidt was 3-for-3 with a double, two runs, and three RBI, while fifth-year senior Tarah DeCroock was 2-for-3 with a triple, one RBI, and three runs scored.

St. Olaf took a 1-0 lead just two batters into the bottom of the first after DeCroock tripled to deep center and scored on Rylee's single through the left side before the floodgates opened in the second.

The first six batters of the inning all reached for St. Olaf, including a two-run double by Schmidt and a run-scoring triple by Rylee. After the first out was recorded, 10-straight Ole hitters reached base on eight hits and two walks, as St. Olaf ballooned its lead to 15-0. Senior Andrea Conway had two RBI singles and sophomore Amelia Christenson added a two-run double to right center in the inning.

The Cobbers got their lone run of the game in the fourth before the Oles closed out the run-rule victory.

St. Olaf 10, Concordia-Moorhead 4 | Box Score

In game two, St. Olaf broke a 3-3 tie with four runs in the fourth inning and went on to finish off the sweep. All nine starting position players reached base at least once for the Oles, including four who had multi-hit games.

DeCroock was 2-for-3 with a double, a walk, an RBI, and two runs scored out of the leadoff spot, while Rylee, junior Anne Fossum, and senior Maya Patty also had two-hit games, with Rylee and Patty both scoring once and driving in another run.

First year Roxanne Ring moved to 3-1 on the season after allowing three runs on six hits over the first four innings before classmate Madyn Singleton yielded just one run over the final three frames. Singleton allowed just two hits and struck out a season-high five batters to work around three walks.

After the Cobbers scored a run in the top of the first, the Oles grabbed the lead with a three-run second inning. The first run came in on a throwing error following an infield single by Fossum and, two batters later, Peschel dropped a two-run single into right-center field to put St. Olaf on top.

Concordia responded with two runs in the top of the fourth to tie the game at 3-3, but the tie was short-lived after St. Olaf answered with four runs in the bottom of the inning to take the lead for good. Pinch-runner Elle Brandt scored the first run of the inning by scampering home on a wild pitch after sitting on third with two outs. DeCroock singled in the second run of the inning before Christenson delivered the big blow of the frame with a two-run double to right center.

Patty pushed the Oles' lead to five with a two-out, run-scoring single in the fifth, but Concordia got the run back in the next half inning. St. Olaf plated two more two-out runs in the bottom of the sixth when Conway tripled to center to score DeCroock and Rylee followed with an RBI single to center to cap her six-hit day.