ROCHESTER, Minn.—For the second day in a row, Augustana split a pair of games Sunday at the Regional Dome. The Vikings fell 9-0 to Bethel (Minn.) (5-1) in the morning, but bounced back with a 9-1 defeat of Gustavus Adolphus (3-4) in the afternoon. Coach Kris Kistler's club, 2-2 on the season, is scheduled to play its 2020 home opener on Wednesday, March 18, when Monmouth visits Carver Field for a 4:00 p.m. doubleheader.
 
BETHEL 9, AUGUSTANA 0
 
Bethel pitchers Kayla Simacek and Calli Maki handcuffed Augustana batters on just one hit in the morning contest, which was shortened to five innings.
 
Viking starter Cecelia Peine (Holt HS, Wentzville, Mo.) kept her team in the game early. The Royals touched her for a run in the top of the first on Alli Fauth's leadoff single and Maki's one-out RBI triple.
 
Maki stifled the Augustana bats through three innings. Junior Molly Wrenn (Geneva HS, Geneva, Ill.) accounted for the Vikings' only hit of the game, a one-out bunt single in the bottom of the first.
 
Bethel broke the game open with three runs in the fourth and Sadie Hanzalik's three-run, pinch-hit double was the big hit in a five-run Royal fifth. Simacek retired six straight batters in the bottom halves to close things out.
 
Maki allowed just one hit and two walks in her three innings and picked up the win. Peine (0-1) gave up eight hits and four runs in four innings and absorbed the loss. Cortney Horkanson went 3-for-3 to pace a 12-hit Royal attack.
 
AUGUSTANA 9, GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS 1
 
The Vikings got the bats going and sophomore Erin Smith (Columbine HS, Highlands Ranch, Colo.) went the distance in the circle in a 9-1 afternoon win over Gustavus Adolphus.
 
Sophomore Nichole Nash (Moline HS, Moline, Ill.) led off the game with a single to center and scored on Claire Weeks' (Dundee-Crown HS, Sleepy Hollow, Ill.) squeeze to put Augustana on top 1-0. The Vikings added three runs in the second. Alyssa Klahn (Lincoln-Way Central HS, New Lenox, Ill.) drew a leadoff walk and scored on Sydney Ohrtmann's (Freeport HS, Rockford, Ill.) single to left. Nash singled in two runs later in the fame and the Vikings led 4-0 after an inning and a half.
 
The Gusties tallied their only run in the third. Sydney Swenson led off with a double and after moving up on a passed ball, scored on a groundout.
 
Gustavus hurler Aly Freeman came on to start the third and shut Augustana out for four innings. However, the Vikings got to her in the seventh. Erin Smith singled to left leading off and Weeks and Klahn followed with hits to load the bases with no outs and knock out Freeman. Ohrtmann greeted reliever Amanda Packey with a two-run double and Jannae Mehaffey (Cherry Creek, Englewood, Colo.) delivered a two-run single. Tristan Bautista's (United Township HS, East Moline, Ill.) sacrifice fly later plated Mehaffey to extend the lead to 9-1.
 
Erin Smith (1-1) pitched around a pair of hits in the bottom of the seventh to finish off the complete game win. She scattered seven hits and allowed just one unearned run, walking one and fanning four. Ashley Neuenfeldt took the loss.
 
Nash went 3-for-4 with a run and two RBI and Ohrtmann was 2-for-4 with two scored and three knocked in. Erin Smith, Weeks and Klahn (two runs scored) each had a pair of hits as well and Mehaffey scored twice and drove in two runs.