Softball Huddle vs UST (5/6/18)
Leah Rado
6
Saint Benedict CSB 34-8
15
Winner St. Thomas UST-WOM 35-6
Saint Benedict CSB
34-8
6
Final
15
St. Thomas UST-WOM
35-6
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 R H E
Saint Benedict CSB 0 1 0 5 0 0 6 6 5
St. Thomas UST-WOM 3 1 0 4 4 3 15 16 0

W: Dunning (22-2) L: Hjort, Ally (12-4)

Game Recap: Women's Softball | | Leah Rado, Athletic Media Relations Director

Saint Benedict falls to UST in MIAC title game

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The College of Saint Benedict softball teams put up more runs on St. Thomas in one inning than the Tommies had given up in the past four games, but it wasn't enough for CSB Sunday afternoon.
 
CSB took a 6-4 lead over UST thanks to a five-run fourth inning, but St. Thomas answered with 11 runs in the next three innings to come away with a 15-6, six-inning win in the MIAC Championship game.
 
This marks the 13th MIAC title in program history for St. Thomas, which is 35-6 and earned the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. CSB – which had to win two games Saturday to advance to the title game – learns its postseason fate Monday at noon in the NCAA selection show.
 
The Tommies got on the board early Sunday afternoon, jumping ahead early thanks to four first-inning hits that led to three runs. CSB got on run back in the second when Olivia Olson sent a solo homer over the center-field fence, but UST made it 4-1 in the bottom of the inning on an RBI sac fly and a CSB error.
 
Saint Benedict – playing in its first MIAC title game since 2004 – rallied in the fourth to take a brief lead over the Tommies, who swept CSB in the regular season. Emilie Antony singled to start the inning, a walk and another single loaded the bases, then Sara Wennerstrand sent in two runs with a long single, Karlee Pfaff tied the game on an RBI sac fly, and Claire Boatman put CSB up 6-4 with a two-run homer – her second long shot of the tournament.
 
The lead was short-lived, however, as UST used four this and two CSB error to take an 8-6 lead after four innings, added four more runs in the fifth and ended the game early with a three-run homer in the bottom of the sixth.
 
Olson and Boatman's homers and Pfaff's double led CSB, which finished with six hits. Alex Smith threw the first inning and gave up four runs on five hits, then Ally Hjort took over. She took the loss after giving up seven runs – four earned – on seven hits with one strikeout. Kiela DeVlaeminck gave up four runs on four hits in the final two-thirds of an inning.
 
Saint Benedict, which is now 34-8, looks to make its first NCAA postseason appearance since 1994 after finishing second in the MIAC and ranked second in the NFCA Midwest Region. The NCAA Tournament selection show starts at noon Monday, May 7, at ncaa.com.
 
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