Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Between games of Sunday's doubleheader with Concordia,  Hamline took time to honor the four seniors on their softball team and their families.

The seniors then paid back the favor by playing key roles in the Pipers' 6-1 and 10-0 decisions over the Cobbers. It put the capper on a busy three days that saw HU win five of six games and move even with St. Thomas in the loss column in the battle for the top of the conference race. 

HU is now 14-4 in MIAC play with road doubleheaders this week at St. Catherine (Wednesday, April 26) and Augsburg (Friday, April 28). UST is 16-4 with a doubleheader remaining on Saturday, April 29 at Bethel. St. Benedict (15-5) and St. Catherine (12-4) are lurking close by as well. St. Olaf (12-6) has life as well in the chase form playoff spots. 

Sunday belonged to Casey Anderson, Mary-Clare Couillard, Sarah DeMars and Chelsea Koehn. 

DeMars dazzled the Cobbers in the opener, scattering three hits, walking none and fanning seven batters to improve to 10-5 on the season. Couillard made an immediate impact when she hit first collegiate home run -- a two-run blast -- in the first inning to put Hamline ahead early. It was 2-1 in the fourth inning when Koehn unloaded a two RBI double into the gap in left center. The Pipers added two more runs and DeMars, who retired the last 12 batters she faced, took it from there. 

Anderson took to the mound for the second and tossed her MIAC leading sixth shutout of the season. She, too, allowed just three hits and allowed only one runner to get as far as third base. She contributed at the plate as well with a pair of singles and a run-scoring sacrifice fly. She had plenty of support as Aubree Douglas, Abbie Annen and Delaney Kohler also had two hits in the game, which was called after 4 1/2 innings because of the score margin. Hamline has now won nine of the last 11 games played and stands 19-11 overall. 

They will face the Wildcats, (24-10 overall) in the makeup of a doubleheader that was washed out on April 15. The first game is set to start at 3:30 p.m. They finish MIAC play on the turf at Augsburg (21-15, 9-9 MIAC) in a 4:30 p.m. pair.