NORTHFIELD, Minn. – Senior Roxanne Ring earned the win in both games and delivered a walk-off double in game two, as the St. Olaf College softball team swept Gustavus Adolphus College by scores of 8-3 and 9-8 on Sunday afternoon at Mabel Shirley Field.

After being staked to an early lead in game one, Ring struck out eight over a complete game in game one for St. Olaf (13-14, 6-5 MIAC), which posted three multi-run innings in the win. Gustavus (13-15, 6-6 MIAC) held a 6-1 lead in the fourth inning of game two before the Oles fought back with a six-run fifth inning and won it in the seventh on Ring's walk-off double.

St. Olaf will continue a stretch of four consecutive home doubleheaders by hosting Macalester College on Tuesday, April 21. First pitch is set for 3:30 p.m. at Mabel Shirley Field.

St. Olaf 8, Gustavus 3 | Box Score

After Gustavus plated two runs in the top of the second to tie the game at 2-2, St. Olaf responded immediately with four runs in the bottom of the inning to take the lead. Ring held the visitors to one run the rest of the way in her 10th complete game of the season.

Ring yielded three runs (one earned) on 10 hits with four walks and eight strikeouts in her first win of the day. Eight Oles had at least one hit, led by two-hit games from junior Regan Zak and first year Hannah Yaeger.

Yaeger was 2-for-3 with a walk, a double, two runs scored, and two RBI, while Zak went 2-for-3 with a walk, a stolen base, and a run scored. Senior Elle Brandt added a two-run double in the win.

After Ring got back-to-back strikeouts to escape a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the first half inning, St. Olaf scored twice in the bottom of the first. Zak drew a leadoff walk, stole second, and scored on Yaeger's double to center. Later in the inning, Yaeger scored on a dropped fly ball in center field.

Gustavus capitalized on an error by the Oles to start the top of the second to score two unearned runs on a two-out single to tie the game. St. Olaf answered right back with four runs on four hits in the bottom of the second.

Junior Kyra Narum started the inning with a double before scoring on a one-out double to the wall by junior Rylan Nakamura. An infield single by Yaeger later in the inning brought in another run before Brandt lined a two-out, two-run double down the left-field line to cap the four-run frame.

Gustavus trimmed one run off its deficit in the top of the fifth, but Ring got a line drive to second to leave the bases loaded and keep the Oles' lead at 6-3. Ring helped her cause with a two-out, run-scoring single in the bottom of the sixth before a second run scored on a throwing error for the final run of the game.

St. Olaf 9, Gustavus 8 | Box Score

Gustavus scored four runs in the top of the first and held a 6-1 lead in the middle of the fourth, but Yaeger hit a grand slam in St. Olaf's six-run fifth that gave the Oles the lead. The Gusties quickly tied the game at 2-2 in the sixth, but Ring laced a one-out double to the gap in right center to score senior Belle Schmidt for the game-winning run in the bottom of the seventh.

Zak and Brandt tallied three-hit games for St. Olaf, with Brandt going 3-for-4 with two doubles, a stolen base, one RBi, and two runs scored. Zak was 3-for-4 with one RBI and one run scored, while junior Jill Arp was 2-for-3 with a walk and two RBI.

Gustavus used three walks, a hit batter, and two wild pitches to score four runs on just two hits in the top of the first. Arp got the Oles on the board with a two-out RBI single in the bottom of the second after Brandt singled and stole second.

The Gusties scored single runs in the third and fourth to extend their lead to 6-1 before St. Olaf scored seven unanswered runs to take the lead. Junior Eva Hokanson and Brandt started the bottom of the fourth with back-to-back doubles to make it a 6-2 game before Yaeger belted her second grand slam of the season to center in the fifth to tie the game.

Arp and Zak provided RBI singles later in the fifth to give the Oles an 8-6 lead. Gustavus responded with two runs in the top of the sixth, but Hokanson threw a runner out at third from right field for the second out of the inning to help keep the game tied.

With the game still tied in the bottom of the seventh, Arp took a walk on a full-count pitch before moving up to second on a sacrifice bunt by Nakamura. After Schmidt ran at second for Arp, Ring lofted a double to the wall in right center to allow Schmidt to score and end the game.