Box Score The Carthage College softball team (23-14, 8-6 College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin) was eliminated from the CCIW Softball Tournament on Saturday, May 3 with a 4-0 loss in the semifinals to No. 19 Augustana College (Ill., 33-10) at the Illinois Wesleyan University Softball Field in Bloomington, Ill. 
 
Carthage, seeded fourth, opened tournament play on Friday, May 2 with a 3-2 loss to top-seeded and No. 12 Illinois Wesleyan University (35-5, 12-2 CCIW).  In the second round, also on Friday, the Lady Reds eliminated third-seeded and No. 26 North Central College (29-11) by an 11-1 margin in five innings. The tournament got underway with second-seeded Augustana (Ill., 32-9, 10-4 CCIW) edging North Central (29-10, 9-5 CCIW), 2-1, in a first-round game.  Illinois Wesleyan (36-5) defeated Augustana (32-10), 4-2, in Friday's fourth-and-final game.  Illinois Wesleyan (37-5) won the Saturday, May 3 championship game, 10-9, over Augustana (Ill., 33-11) to gain the league's automatic qualifier to the NCAA Division III Softball Championship.
 
In the loss to Augustana in the semifinals, the Vikings took a 2-0 lead in the first inning on a two-run single by Jaime Rehmert.  The Vikings added an unearned run in the third and then another one on the fourth on an RBI-double by Laura Behnke.  Sarah Hintz (17-4) was the winning pitcher, as she blanked the Lady Reds on six hits, three walks and seven strikeouts over seven innings.  Makenzie Walker (Fr., Kenosha, Wis./Bradford, 8-4), the first-of-four Carthage hurlers, took the loss.  Walker surrendered three runs, two earned, on seven hits and two walks over the first three innings.  Katie Morman (Sr., Kenosha, Wis./Somers-Shoreland Lutheran) went three-for-three for the Lady Reds.