Hit Parade Leads To Split At Hamline

ST. PAUL, Minn. (4/26/26)--- Concordia put together its biggest offensive numbers of the conference season in its split at Hamline.

The Cobbers scored 13 runs and had 30 hits in the two contests against the Pipers as CC dropped the opener 8-2 but then exploded in the second game to record an 11-3 victory.

Concordia had 22 hits in Game 2 which is the most in a single game in 30 years and only the third time in program history that the Cobbers have reached the 20-hit mark.  

The split is the third in the last five twinbills for Concordia, who are now 11-21 overall and 3-15 in MIAC play.

Seniors Reese Hauck and Kate Gulbranson led the CC offense as both players had multiple-hit games in both contests. Hauck finished the day 6-for-8 with two runs scored and an RBI while Gulbranson was 5-for-7 with three RBI.

Megan Guggisberg had the lone home run of the day for Concordia went she went yard in the fourth inning of the opener. She is now tied with Hauck for the team lead in HRs with five. The Cobbers have knocked out 17 long balls in their 31 games this year.

Kegen Coulson and Mallory Leitner combined to pick up the win in Game 2. Coulson earned her fifth win of the season by pitching the first 5.0 innings and allowing three runs. Leitner slammed the door in the sixth and seventh frames by only allowing two hits. Her scoreless outing earned her the second save of her career.

Neither team scored in the first two innings in Game 1 before the Pipers cracked open the door in the third. They plated a single run in the third, two more in the fourth and put the game out of reach with a 4-run sixth.

Megan Guggisberg got CC on the board with her solo shot in the fourth and Gulbranson's single in the sixth scored Hauck to account for the Cobbers' other run in the game.

Concordia had eight hits in the opener with Megan Guggisberg, Hauck and Gulbranson all collecting two hits.

Leitner started the game in the circle and went 3.1 frames before giving the ball to Coulson who finished off the final 2.2.

It was all maroon and gold in Game 2. The Cobbers dropped a 5-spot in the first inning and never looked back. They finished off their third conference with 2-run frames in the fourth, fifth and seventh innings.

Concordia came away with a season-high 22 hits in Game 2. That 's the most hits in a single game by a CC team since the 1996 season.

The Cobbers offense was so efficient, it had seven of the nine starting players in the batting order come away with multiple-hit games and three hitters had 4-hit games.

Kailee Falconer was 4-for-5 from the leadoff spot Charlotte Bertram was 4-for-5 with four RBI in the clean-up spot and Hauck was 4-for-5 hitting right behind Bertram.

The top five hitters in the CC lineup combined to go 13-for-23 (.565) with nine runs scored and seven RBI.

Besides the 4-hit trio of Falconer, Bertram and Hauck, Alexa Krueger, Jocelyn Maki Gulbranson and Cate Kehoe also had multiple-hit games.  

Concordia will cap the 2026 season when they host St. Olaf on Tuesday, Apr. 28 and then play at Augsburg on Saturday, May 2.