Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 The University of Minnesota Duluth was held in check one of the few times this spring as No. 13 Augustana University became the first club to take both games of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference double header  from UMD on Senior Day at James S. Malosky Stadium.

Junior Valerie Hohol and seniors Hannah Schmoll, Becky Smith, Natalie Wright were recognized in-between games in their final home games. Hohol is waiving her senior season and will graduate early. The Woodbury, Minn., native has notched personal bests in wins, complete games, starts, inning pitched and strikeouts including being selected as a NSIC Pitcher of the Week earlier this season.

Schmoll was selected as a Schutt Sports/NFCA Division II National Player of the Year finalist in her final collegiate season, she has season-bests in runs, walks, doubles, RBI, batting average, slugging and on-base. She is also the single-season and all-time stolen bases leader at UMD and third-most among active Division II players. Smith is the team's all-time leader in doubles, fielding assists, total bases and RBI. The Long Lake, Minn., native is eighth among active Division II players with over 200 RBI. This past Wednesday, she broke her own single-season RBI record. Wright has collared All-NSIC first team honors each of the last two seasons and was the last Bulldog to be named to the All-Central Region team. The Wyoming, Minn., native attained a NSIC Gold Glove as well, setting the fielding assists school-record for a single season last year. The trio have the second-most wins at UMD with 141 wins during their four-year careers, nine short of 1990 class. 

In addition to their outstanding contributions, Smith and Wright have broken Tyra Kerr's mark of most consecutive games started and career games started at UMD. The duo, since they have stepped foot on campus as freshman in 2015, have started and played in every single game throughout their illustrious Bulldog careers. They are now at 210 consecutive games started inching past Kerr's mark of 209 that she set in 2013.

Augustana's Ashley Mickschl allowed only five hits in the game one 4-1 win for the Vikings. Mickschl was efficient in changing speeds and hitting each sides of the plate. Smith supplied the only damage with her 12^th home run, a new personal best, in the first inning. Smith had two of the five hits off Mickschl.

It was much of the same in the second game. UMD was able to only muster two hits as it tumbled by a 5-1 score. The Vikings score three runs in the first inning and added two more in the final frame.

Sophomore third baseman broke up the combined no-hitter in the fourth with one out. Oberle worked a full count and ripped one down the left field line for a double. Junior first basemen Kalynn Tilton went toward the other foul line with a ground-rule double the next at-bat to wipe away the shutout.

The Bulldogs, who are 3-2 against ranked competition this season, finish the regular season 38-11 and 20-6 in conference play. The Vikings (37-11; 19-5) leapfrogged UMD to clinch the second seed in the NSIC standings. UMD will be the third seed in the 10-team double elimination tournament which will begin Thursday, May 3 in Sioux Falls, S.D. The Bulldogs have the University of Sioux Falls in the opening round of the NSIC Tournament. Game time of that game is at 12:00 p.m. at Sherman Field on the campus of Sioux Falls.