Box Score 
Freshman shortstop Carly Wilson had two hits and two RBI Monday, but Augustana fell 6-4 to
North Central at Carver Field.
ROCK ISLAND, Ill. – Augustana went up 3-1 after two and a half innings Monday, but couldn't hang on as North Central came from behind for a 6-4 win at Carver Field. The Vikings end their season with a 16-22 overall record and finish in a fifth-place tie in the CCIW at 6-8. The Cardinals improve to 18-16 on the season and 8-6 in the league.
Augustana was the designated visitor in the contest, which was originally scheduled as the nightcap of a Sunday doubleheader. The teams managed to get the opener in yesterday—with the Vikings winning 3-2—but rain wiped out game two.
North Central got on the board first. Taylor Clugston touched
Ashley Anderson (Sherrard HS, Viola, Ill.) for a leadoff single in the bottom of the first. She stole second and eventually scored on a Jenna Trojniar groundout.
In the top of the third, Augustana took the lead, getting three runs off Andrea Starr. Sophomore
Haylie Arndt (Lockport HS, Lockport, Ill.) led off with a single to left and came around to score the tying run on a triple to left center by freshman
Rachel Anderson (Rochester HS, Rochester, Ill.). Freshman
Carly Wilson (Johnsburg HS, Ringwood, Ill.) followed with an RBI single and scored the Vikings' third run on a single by junior
Brittany Kellett (The Woodlands HS, The Woodlands, Texas).
It didn't take long for the Cardinals to respond. They tied it with a pair of runs in the bottom of the third and regained the lead with two more in the fourth. Starr helped her own cause with an RBI double in the third and a run-scoring single in the fourth.
North Central made it 6-3 in the fifth on a Amanda Walker double and Brooke Kehoe's RBI single.
In the top of the seventh, junior
Amanda Ebert (Geneva HS, Geneva, Ill.) delivered a one-out, pinch-hit double to right center. One out later, Wilson single her in, but Starr got
Ashley Anderson to ground out to end the game.
Both starters went the distance for the second day in a row. Anderson gave up 11 hits and five earned runs, walking none and fanning three. She dropped to 11-10 on the year. Star scattered nine hits and improved to 10-11 with the win.
Wilson and Kellett paced the Augustana offense with two hits apiece, Wilson also knocked in a pair.
