Letter from the Editor:

Dear Reader, Thank you for reading the Sports section this year! Whether you flipped through a TWIS or read every article back to front, we appreciate your readership. This was an amazing year for Scot athletics, both on and off the field. We saw an NCAA tournament run, water polo return atop the CWPA, one of the best baseball seasons in recent memory and football even won a game! Macalester athletics is thriving; next year will be even better. If you have any recommendations for coverage in the future, or events that we should have covered but missed, please reach out to [email protected].

Women’s tennis advances to MIAC playoffs

• Women’s tennis faced off against the College of Saint Benedict on Thursday afternoon, losing 6-1.
• The Bennies swept doubles play, and the Scots earned their only point of the match thanks to Savannah Haugen ’26 at number one singles, 6-2, 6-2.
• The Scots then made a Sunday trip to Duluth, Minn. to take on the College of St. Scholastica. A win would clinch a MIAC playoff berth.
• The team delivered, winning the dual 4-3 and securing their playoff berth in dramatic fashion.
• Despite a win at number one doubles for Mac, the Saints rallied and took the doubles point with back-to-back wins.
• The Scots finished fifth in the MIAC with a 10-8 record overall and a 5-5 mark in conference play. They secured a matchup with fourth-seed Saint Catherine University on Tuesday.
• The Scots couldn’t pull off the first-round upset, losing 4-1 to St. Catherine. It marks the end of a successful season, and a return to the playoffs after a one-year hiatus.

Baseball officially into MIAC playoffs

• The Macalester baseball team officially secured its berth to the MIAC playoffs on Saturday, thanks to a St. Olaf College loss. They return to the tournament for the first time since 2018, when they lost a first-round game to St. Thomas.
• The tournament will be held May 7-9, as the Scots currently hold second place. They sit two games behind conference leader Bethel University.
• This week held a pair of nonconference games against the University of Minnesota-Morris (UMM) and Bethany Lutheran College (BLC).
• The Scots lost to UMM on Saturday afternoon, 6-5, despite holding the lead through seven innings. The game was played at Concordia-St. Paul due to scheduling conflicts at Macalester.
• In their final non-conference matchup of the season on Monday, the Scots lost to BLC 10-3 despite Raymond McCaskey’s ’26 100th career hit, a single in the top of the fourth inning. The Scots got behind 6-0 early and couldn’t muster a rally.
• Macalester then swept Augsburg University at home for Senior Day, with two one-run victories. In the first game, Ben King ‘26 pitched four scoreless innings and earned the win. The final was 2-1. Game two was a barnburner, with the Scots winning 17-16.
• Next up for the Scots is the final doubleheader of the season, a twogame set against Hamline University at CHS Field in St. Paul. First pitch is set for 6:30 pm. CHS Field is the home of the St. Paul Saints, triple-A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins. It is also the host stadium for the MIAC playoffs.

Softball breaks five-game skid, still drops the week

• The softball team had a busy weekend, hosting a doubleheader each on Saturday and Sunday.
• The team also played a makeup game against Hamline, resuming with two outs in the bottom of the fifth inning after the contest was postponed due to rain on April 11.
• The Scots dropped the opener to St. Catherine, 13-3. The Wildcats opened a 4-0 lead that the Scots cut to 4-3 in the fifth on an RBI single from Martha Miller ’26. However, they wouldn’t get any closer. St. Kate’s added nine runs over the final two frames and put the Scots in the rearview.
• The pressure was on in game two as the Scots now faced a fourgame losing streak. Miller met the moment, allowing only three runs (one earned) with four strikeouts in a complete game effort. The bats got going too: Ally Wolf ’28 had a two-run double to get the lead back in the bottom of the first, and Dylan Tapia ’28 added some insurance in the bottom of the sixth, smoking a double to the gap to make it 7-3.
• But Carleton stymied the Scots. The offense was shut out in game one, recording just three hits in a 3-0 loss. The second game was closer, still a 5-4 loss. The Scots had the winning run on second base in the f inal frame, but couldn’t get the runner home.
• Mac took the anger from the sweep into the postponed Hamline game on Tuesday. The game was tied 4-4 with two outs in the home half of the fifth when they picked up, and the Scots won by a final of 124. They scored one in the sixth and generated an offensive power surge in the seventh, scoring seven.
• The Scots are 21-15, 12-6 in conference. They sit in fourth place, one game behind St. Olaf College and one game in front of St. Catherine.

Men’s track and field host meet

• The Scots hosted the Rider/Bolstoroff Invitational over the weekend, placing third and winning three individual events plus a relay.
• In the 1500 meters, Macalester took the top three spots, with Daniel Wiltse ’27 winning with a personal best of 3:59.99. Tyler Edwards ’26 finished a close second in 4:00.42, with Quinn Hoisington ’27 taking third in 4:01.03.
• Macalester’s 4×400-meter relay squad of Drew Morral ’29, Andrew Lamb ’29, Thomas Malecha ’26 and Henry Schonebaum ’26 placed first with a time of 3:32.31.
• Ataa Mensah ’28 won the high jump, clearing 1.95 meters and recording an all-time fifth-place finish in school history.
• The Scots recorded 98 points and trailed only Bethel University and Concordia-St. Paul.
• Next up is the Joe Sweeney Invitational at St. Thomas on Wednesday night; wrapping up after the paper goes to print.

Water polo finishes third in the nation

• The water polo team headed to Pomona-Pitzer’s pool for the USA Water Polo Championships over the weekend.
• They lost 23-2 to the five-time defending champions, Pomona-Pitzer, in the opening game.
• The Scots rebounded well, with a massive comeback to beat Carthage College in a CWPA championship game rematch, 7-6.

Women’s track and field earn wins

• The Scots hosted the Rider/Bolstoroff invitational at Macalester Stadium over the weekend.
• In the field events, Brooke Boroughs ’26 won the javelin with a throw of 34.86 meters. On the track, Kate Fox ’28 placed second in the 800 meters with a time of 2:15.18, which ranks seventh on Macalester’s all-time list.

Men’s tennis wraps up season one spot outside MIAC playoffs 

• The men’s tennis team won their penultimate game of the season, 5-2 over Saint John’s University in Sartell, Minn. last Thursday.
• The team won the first two doubles matches to take the doubles point, and then Jordan Doi ’26 and Charles Flaman ’29 put the Scots one point away from the win. Beckett Annes ’28 slammed the door, outlasting his opponent through a tiebreaker and clinching the win.
• The team headed off to Duluth, Minn. to play the College of Saint Scholastica (CSS) on Sunday for their final game of the year. The dual was win or go home, with the winning team advancing to the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) Playoffs and the loser done for the season.
• The Scots won number two doubles and nearly won the doubles point, but a close loss in number one doubles gave it to CSS. The Saints swept singles play, winning all six matches in straight sets.
• The men’s tennis team finishes at 10-10 overall, with a 4-5 record in conference play. They finished sixth in the MIAC, landing one spot outside a playoff berth.

Men’s golf wraps up 2026

• The Scots shot a two-round score of 622 to finish last out of 15 at the Saint John’s Spring Invite, Saturday and Sunday at Wapicada Golf Club.
• Harry Cheng ‘’26 led Macalester in his final competition as a Scot, tying for 42nd with a score of 152.
• The Scots had their highest finish at the MIAC tournament since the 1970’s, fifth, in September 2025.