DECATUR, Ga. – The St. Olaf College softball team started its Spring Break trip to Georgia by sweeping Agnes Scott College by scores of 6-2 and 16-6 on Sunday afternoon at Oakhurst Park.

Sophomores Madyn Singleton and Roxanne Ring held Agnes Scott (7-15) in check in the opener, allowing just two unearned runs for St. Olaf (7-3). The Oles went on to complete the sweep behind a 23-hit attack that marked the most hits in a game in recorded program history. Senior Shreya Ashok led the 23-hit barrage by registering the first six-hit performance in recorded program history.

St. Olaf will play a doubleheader at Emory University on Monday, March 25 starting at 12:30 p.m. CDT. The teams were originally scheduled to play single games on Monday and Tuesday, but the high probability of rain in the forecast led to a change in plans.

St. Olaf 6, Agnes Scott 2 | Box Score

Agnes Scott outhit St. Olaf by a 7-6 margin in the opener, but the Oles stole eight bases – the third-highest single-game total in recorded program history – to back Singleton and Ring in the circle. The game marked the first meeting between the two programs.

In her first appearance of the season, Singleton picked up the win after throwing 4.0 shutout innings, working around four hits and four walks with one strikeout. Ring threw the final 3.0 innings, allowing two unearned runs on three hits with two walks and one strikeout.

Singleton and senior Jenna Peschel had two hits apiece, with Singleton also drawing a walk. Ashok, sophomore Elle Brandt, and Jenna Peschel had two stolen bases apiece, while Hannah Peschel and first year Regan Zak had one.

St. Olaf put a run on the board in the opening half inning when Ashok singled with one out, stole second and third, and scored on a sacrifice fly off the bat of Hannah Peschel. Peschel scored the second run of the game in the third, reaching on two-base error before coming in to score on a pair of wild pitches.

The Oles added two runs to their lead in the fourth, getting runs on a sacrifice bunt by junior Amelia Christenson and another on an error. Singleton stranded two Scotties in scoring position in the fourth by getting the final two hitters she faced on the afternoon.

St. Olaf scored its final two runs of the game on sacrifice flies in the fifth and seventh innings, while Agnes Scott got single runs in the sixth and seventh.

St. Olaf 16, Agnes Scott 6 | Box Score

Ashok went 6-for-6 with four runs scored and four RBI, while Hannah Peschel was 4-for-6 with a run scored and two RBI, as the duo both reached the 100-hit milestone for their careers. Junior Medora Rylee also reached base four times, going 2-for-3 with two walks, four runs scored and one RBI.

Ten Oles had at least one hit, 10 scored a run, and seven drove in a run in the game-two win. St. Olaf's 23 hits surpassed the previous program record of 21 set on March 25, 2006 against Crown College. The team's 44 at bats rank fourth in single-game program history, its 16 runs are tied for fourth, and its 16 RBI are sixth.

Ashok's six-hit game marked the most hits in a game by a NCAA Division III student-athlete this spring, while the Oles' 23 hits were the fifth-highest total in NCAA Division III this season.

Senior Jaelyn Orth recorded the win by striking out five Scotties over her 4.0 innings of work before Jenna Peschel surrendered just one hit and one walk over the final 3.0 frames.

Both teams tallied multiple runs in the first inning, with St. Olaf putting its first four hitters on base on its way to a two-run top of the first. Agnes Scott answered with four hits in the bottom of the first to score three times and take its first lead of the day.

The Scotties stretched their lead to 4-2 in the bottom of the second, but the Oles responded with a five-run third to take a 7-4 advantage. Seven of the first eight batters reached base safely in the inning, with Ashok delivering a two-run single and Orth and Hannah Peschel adding run-scoring singles.

Agnes Scott trimmed its deficit to 7-6 with two runs in the bottom of the fourth, but St. Olaf again answered with a big inning by pushing across four runs to grab an 11-6 lead. Six consecutive Oles reached base to start the inning on four hits and two walks. First year Eva Hokanson delivered the big hit of the inning with a two-run double to right to cap the four-run frame.

Senior Katie Weisheit knocked in a run with a two-out single in the sixth before St. Olaf capped the 23-hit outburst with six more hits in a four-run seventh. Ashok capped her six-hit day with a two-run triple in the inning.