Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 The Carthage College softball team (19-5, 6-0 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) swept a Sunday, April 14 doubleheader from CCIW-opponent and No. 25 Augustana College (Ill., 19-9, 4-4 CCIW), 14-3 and 4-3, at Carver Field in Rock Island, Ill. The Lady Reds have nine games in a row.
 
Carthage took a 1-0 lead in the first inning of the opener on an RBI-single by Katie Morman.  The Lady Reds made it a 6-0 game with a five-run third inning.  Carthage scored on RBI-doubles by Vicki Pyan and Olivia Scott, along with an RBI-grounder off the bat of Amy Slattery and a two-run single by Jen Precht.  A two-run homer by the Vikings' Krista Watson in the bottom of the third cut the lead to 6-2. 

The Lady Reds scored three time in the fourth to make it 9-2, with Olivia Scott hitting a two-run homer in the inning.  The Vikings got a run back in the fifth to cut the lead to 9-3.  Carthage exploded with five runs in the sixth for the final, 14-3 margin.  Olivia Scott (So., Plainfield, Ill./Central) led Carthage's 14-hit attack by going two-for-three with three runs scored, a double, a home run and three RBI.  Pitcher Krystina Leazer (Sr., Des Plaines, Ill./Elk Grove) upped her record to 11-2.  Leazer surrendered three runs, two earned, on six hits and two walks over six innings.  Sarah Hintz (8-4) took the loss and gave up the first 11 runs in five and one-third innings.
 
In the second game, the Vikings took a 1-0 lead in the first inning.  The Lady Reds came back with single runs in the second and third innings to go up, 2-1.  Bryanna Heckel singled home the run in the second and Alyse Mikolas singled in the third-inning score.  Augustana took a 3-2 lead in the fourth inning on an RBI-single by Amanda Johnson and an RBI-double by Cheyenne Burnett.
 
That's the way it stayed until the bottom of the seventh when Carthage's Katie Morman led off with a single, and Abby Hanson (Jr., Winthrop Harbor, Ill./Zion-Benton Township) followed with a walk-off, two-run homer to win the game, 4-3.  Olivia Scott went three-for-three to cap a five-for-six day.  Pitcher Tina Campbell (Jr., St. Petersburg, Ill./Lakewood) started the game but gave way to Krystina Leazer in the fourth.  Leazer blanked the Vikings on three hits and five strikeouts over the final three and one-third innings to improve to 12-2.  Ashley Anderson (6-3) was the losing pitcher.
 
Carthage travels to Naperville, Ill., on Tuesday, April 16 to play CCIW-opponent and No. 23 North Central College (25-1, 3-1 CCIW) in a 3 p.m. doubleheader at the Shanower Family Softball Field.  The Cardinals are currently in second place behind undefeated Carthage.