Game One Box Score
Game Two Box Score

ELMHURST, Ill. - The Elmhurst College softball team kept its CCIW Tournament hopes alive by sweeping a doubleheader from Augustana College at Salt Creek Park. 

Elmhurst took game one 3-1 and the Bluejays finished the sweep with a 5-3 victory in game two. The doubleheader sweep was Elmhurst's first sweep of the Vikings in over 10 years.

ELMHURST 3, MILLIKIN 1 - Stephanie Iori limited Augustana to only four hits and one run while pitching the Bluejays to a complete-game victory.

Augustana (17-17, 5-7 CCIW) grabbed a 1-0 lead in the second inning on a Kelsey Winter run-scoring single. The Vikings' lead was short-lived as the Bluejays evened the score in the bottom of the second.Rose Wysocki delivered the game-tying, one-out single for Elmhurst.

The Bluejays surged in front in the fifth inning. A leadoff single followed by an error and a sacrifice bunt gave Elmhurst runners at second and third with one out. Clare Bukowski squeezed home a run to put Elmhurst on top 2-1. Katie Hruby added an RBI single to give the Bluejays the 3-1 lead.

 Iori did the rest, retiring 13 of the final 15 batters she faced. She scattered four hits and two walks over seven innings while striking out one.

ELMHURST 5, AUGUSTANA 3 - Elmhurst jumped on Augustana early, scoring four runs in the opening inning and chasing Vikings' starter Ashley Yaros in th process. The Bluejays loaded the bases with two outs and received key back-to-back hits from Hruby and Wysocki. Hruby gave Elmhurst a 2-0 lead by lacing a double of the wall in left field. Wysocki followed with a two-run single to give Elmhurst a 4-0 cushion.

Augustana cut the Bluejays' lead in half with two runs in the bottom of the first. The Vikings pulled to within a run in the third on Lauren Schneiderbauer's RBI single.

Elmhurst tacked on an insurance run in the fifth inning on Julie Devine's run -scoring single.

Lindsay Nauman earned the win for the Bluejays, working four innings and scattering four hits and three runs. She walked three and struck out one. Iori recorded Elmhurst's first save of the season by working three perfect innings in relief.

Elmhurst travels to North Park University on April 28.