Women’s golf springs back into action
Women’s golf returned for the spring season at the Wartburg Spring Invite with a top-half finish, coming seventh of 16 teams.
Bailey Lengfelder ’26 was the highlight of these Scots’ return to the links with an individual third place overall, shooting a program record 145 over two rounds.
The next three Scots finished in a cluster, with Mia Cluff ’28 and Scarlett Liu ’26 tied for 35th, and Ava Austria ’28 two strokes behind them in 44th.
Men’s track and field battles wind, D-I foes in Iowa
In a meet without team scores at Wartburg College this weekend, men’s track and field faced a selection of Iowa schools, including D-I University of Northern Iowa and Drake University.
Aiden Yang ’25 got the Scots’ lone podium with his 55.11m javelin effort, with a third place that landed him ahead of several D-I throwers.
Ataa Mensah ’28 posted two top-five finishes of his own, jumping to fourth in the high jump and fifth in the triple jump.
Women’s track and field b-eats records for breakfast
On April 4 and 5, these Scots started the outdoor season with record-breaking aplomb in Waverly, Ia. Jessica Lin’s ’27 record-breaking 47.97m hammer throw headlined the team’s efforts in Iowa, placing her seventh in the event and 27th in the country to start the season.
Also scaring Scots all-time standards were Brooke Boroughs ’27 and Seneca Wilson ’27 in the javelin and pole vault, respectively. Wilson jumped to a program second-best all-time 3.05m and finished fifth on the day, while Boroughs threw a personal best 36.84m that earned her sixth all-time for Macalester and won the event.
On the track, Ariella Rogahn-Press ’28 was back in form for the 400m, dipping under 56 seconds to win the event with the nation’s sixth-best time, 55.97. For all-time Scots, Rogahn-Press is only behind Hannah Sonsalla’s ’18 55.53.
Baseball splits with Cards, sweeps Cobbers
On Sunday, the Scots split a doubleheader at Saint Mary’s University (Minn.). In the first game, five innings of two-run ball from starting pitcher Cam Scholl ’25 combined with a three-hit, four-RBI game from Stephen Paulsen ’26 brought the Scots a 7-2 victory.
In the instant rematch, Paulsen continued his big day with another hit and two more RBIs. A six-inning one-run gem from right-hander Ben King ’26 put the Scots in position to sweep, but the Scots’ bullpen couldn’t lock down the win. Two Cardinal runs in the seventh forced extra innings, and a walk-off single in the ninth split the series.
Against Concordia college (Minn.), the Scots suffered a pair of home routs against a high-power Cobbers offense. Five hits and four RBIs by Niko Alexander ’26 across both games couldn’t lift the Scots to victory in either contest as they fell 11-5 and 17-7.
Softball 2-2 through doubleheaders
These Scots opened play in April with a MIAC matchup against Augsburg University on April 3. In their first game, they got a run in the first but were stymied the rest of the way. The Scots stranded 14 runners as the Auggies put four runs on the board to beat them 4-1.
In the second game, the Scots were much more efficient, driving in 11 runs – including six in the first inning — to rout the Auggies 11-3. Martha Miller’s ’27 brilliant two-way outing led the Scots to victory. The sophomore pitched a complete game while going 3-4 from the plate with an RBI. The game was mercy-ruled at six innings.
On April 8, these Scots split their second doubleheader of the week, this time against Hamline University. In the first game, two first-inning runs were enough for the Scots, as a two-hit complete-game shutout from Miller lifted them to victory.
In their second game of the afternoon, the Scots conceded four runs in the third and fell 5-3. Their offensive efforts were highlighted by Sophie Futchko’s ’25 second RBI of the day and by Dylan Tapia’s ’28 solo homer in the fifth.
Men’s tennis ice Pipers
In a nailbiter at Hamline University on April 8, the Scots emerged victorious 5-4. The Scots took two of three doubles matches and split the singles contests down the middle, 3-3, to win the overall contest.
Owen Lindstrom ’25 and Kangyu Li ’27 each won their respective doubles matches, then contributed wins in singles play to power the Scots to the win.
The match ultimately came down to Lucas Wood’s ’25 singles effort. After winning in doubles alongside Lindstrom, Wood’s winner-take-all singles match came to a first-to-10-points super tiebreaker. The set came down to the wire. Wood faced an 8-4 deficit, then reeled off five straight points to reach match point, then dropped the next two points, giving his opponent a chance to ice the game. Back to the wall, Wood saved match point to get to 10-10 with a passing shot, then won two long rallies to win a memorable match, 12-10 in the final set.
The win keeps the Scots in the playoff conversation and extinguishes their Snelling Ave rivals’ own chances of seeing the postseason.
