Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 One day after reaching 200 wins for his coaching career, Hamline head softball coach Jim Rubbelke got a head start on his next 100 wins. The Pipers allowed just seven hits all day and swept Gustavus Adolphus, 4-1 and 8-0 Sunday to improve to 4-0 in MIAC play and 9-7 overall. The 4-0 start matches the 2010 team for the best start out of the gate in conference play in HU history. 

Sarah DeMars followed up her 1-0 shutout of Carleton on Saturday with a three-hitter for the win in the opener in St. Peter. The senior right walked six and fanned four but got the outs when she needed them to improve to 6-2 on the season. 

HU trailed 1-0 in the third inning when Chelsea Koehn homered to even the score. One inning later, Casey Anderson walked, stole second and scampered home on a double by Kira Krueger. Sydney Fransiscus singled home Krueger for a 3-1 lead and Koehn added an insurance run with a sacrifice fly in the seventh inning. DeMars took it from there ... with a little help from her catcher, Aubree Douglas. The Gusties had runners on first and second in the last of the seventh when Douglas picked off the runner at first base to end the game. 

There was no such drama in the second game. Mary-Clare Couillard lashed out a pair of doubles and two RBI to lead a nine-hit attack.Couillard, who also had two hits in the first game, now has 179 for her HU career and ranks fourth all-time in that department in school history. Douglas and Anderson also had two hits and a RBI and Krueger batted in a pair. Anderson was commanding on the mound, scattering four hits with no walks and two strikeouts in the five inning win. 

Hamline jumped on the Gusties for three runs in the top of the first inning, one in the second and three more in the third to give Anderson all the cushion she would need to improve to 3-4 on the season. 

The Pipers return to action Wednesday, April 5 against Macalester at Meredith Field. The doubleheader starts at 3:30 p.m.