May 3, 2025
Cobbers Finish Season In Northfield
-Concordia fell 4-3 in eight innings and 9-2 at St. Olaf in its final doubleheader of the 2025 season. The Cobbers had a lead in both games, but the Oles were able to post rallies to come away with the sweep.
NORTHFIELD, Minn. (5/03/25)---Concordia fell 4-3 in eight innings and 9-2 at St. Olaf in its final doubleheader of the 2025 season.
The Cobbers had a lead in both games, but the Oles were able to post rallies to come away with the sweep.
Concordia finishes the season with a 20-18 overall record and an 8-14 mark in conference play. It is only the fifth time in program history that the Cobbers have posted a 20-win campaign.
St. Olaf wins for the sixth time in the last eight games and finishes the regular season at 23-15 in all games and 14-8 in the MIAC. They will be the No.3 seed in the upcoming conference playoffs.
Game 1: Concordia 3, St. Olaf 4 (8 innings)
The Cobbers scored all their runs in the opener in the third inning. St. Olaf jumped on CC early, playing two runs in the first frame.
Concordia took a 3-2 lead in the third inning by scoring three runs on four hits. Reese Hauck drove home the opening run with a single to left-center field that brought in Emma Bowman. The big hit of the inning came from Jocelyn Maki, who gave CC a 3-2 lead when she singled to right field. The base knock plated Hauck and Kailee Falconer.
The Oles were able to tie the game in the bottom of the fourth, and the game stayed deadlocked at 3-3 until extra innings.
Playing with the international tie-breaker rule, the Cobbers started the top of the eighth with a runner on second. A sacrifice bunt from Danielle Lyon moved Brooklyn Hofer to third base, but then Hofer was thrown out at home on a fielder's choice ground ball in the very next at-bat.
St. Olaf was able to capitalize on their runner at second in the bottom of the inning. They sacrificed the runner to third base and she was able to trot home with the winning run on a single to left field.
Both teams had nine hits in Game 1. Falconer was the lone CC batter with more than one hit. She went 2-for-4 and scored a run from the leadoff spot in the order.
Bayleigh Frye went the distance in the circle. She allowed three earned runs and struck out six.
Frye finishes the year with a 13-4 record. She posted a 1.35 ERA and fanned 115 batters in in 119.1 innings pitched. Her season-long ERA is tops in the MIAC.
Game 2: Concordia 9, St. Olaf 2
Concordia led 1-0 after the first inning in Game 2 before the Oles put up a 5-spot in the second and added 2-run innings in the third and fourth.
The Cobbers got on the board first when Hofer doubled home Rosie Unglaub from second after Unglaub singled and stole second base.
Concordia's other run in the game came in the third. This time it was a Hauck double that plated the run. Falconer go on via a 2-out fielder's choice ground ball and was able to score from first on the Hauck 2-bagger.
The Cobbers posted seven hits in the final game of the year. Seven different Cobbers had a single hit in the game.
Kegen Coulson and Mallory Leitner split the pitching duties. Coulson went the first 2.0 frames and Leitner closed out the final 4.0 innings.
Stat Leaders: Hofer finished the season by leading the Cobbers in batting average with a .416 mark. She also led the team in on-base percentage (.430) and slugging percentage (.664). Hofer was also tops in doubles (15), triples (2) and RBI (24). Her .414 BA was fourth in the MIAC and she was also fourth in slugging percentage and fifth in OPS (1.082).
Hauck led the team in home runs with three and was second in RBI with 22.
