SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Concordia-St. Paul (25-11, 12-6 NSIC) softball dropped a pair of high scoring games today at Augustana (28-9, 15-5), 11-6 and 16-9 at Bowden Field in conference play.

A day after throwing back-to-back shutouts and stifling a strong Wayne State team to just five hits over 14.0 innings, Concordia's three pitchers combined to surrender 27 runs while committing four errors.

But the offense was strong as senior Missie Feuerbach (Iowa City, Iowa) belted a pair of home runs in the first game and went 3-7 with four RBI in the doubleheader while junior Bekah Roth (Shoreview, Minn.) added a game two home run while going 3-4 with three walks in the two games.

While Concordia delivered two doubles and three home runs while hitting .302 against the Viking pitchers, Augustana's bats were too strong. Augie hit .408 in the two games with four home runs and five doubles.

GAME 1: Augustana 11, Concordia 6
Concordia came out strong behind senior Ashley Kluever (Cottage Grove, Minn.) as she picked up where she left off with a 1-2-3 first inning. In the bottom of the inning, M.Feuerbach hit a three-run homer with two outs to left field, scoring Alicia Meiser (Circle Pines, Minn.) and Teona Zepeda (Woodbury, Minn.) who had started the inning with back-to-back bunt singles and a Meiser steal (her 32nd).

Kluever worked out of bases loaded trouble in the second and stranded two runners in teh third before another 1-2-3 inning in the fourth. Through four innings, Kluever had extended her consecutive scoreless inning streak to 18.1 innings dating back to the seventh inning at Upper Iowa on Tuesday.

The Golden Bears added an insurance run for her in the fourth when Zepeda drove in Cassie Bertelsen (Oakdale, Minn.) with an RBI double to left center. Zepeda was 2-4 in the game.

In the fifth inning, Kluever allowed a pair of singles and registered a pair of outs to push her scoreless streak to 19.0 innings. But a two out walk loaded the bases and the Vikings scored three runs with two outs to get back in the game, 4-3.

The Golden Bears manufactured a run in the bottom of the inning to push the lead back to two before Augustana exploded for an eight run sixth inning to take an 11-5 lead, knocking Kluever out of the game.

M.Feuerbach added a solo homer in the seventh inning with one out, but she was the only player to reach base in the final two innings for Concordia. She went 2-3 with the two homers and four RBI in the first game.

Kluever took the loss, falling to 16-6 while Carley Pickett picked up the win in relief to improve to 5-3 for the Vikings. Stephanie Kappes (Circle Pines, Minn.) pitched the final two innings for Concordia.

GAME 2: Augustana 16, Concordia 9
Augustana's bats picked up right where they left off in game two as Janelle Trautmann hit a three run homer to center in the first inning, her 17th of the season.

Concordia came back strong in the bottom of the inning as senior Brynn Larsen (Oconto Falls, Wis.) delivered a two-run single with the bases loaded and no outs and senior Katie Feuerbach (Iowa City, Iowa) added a two run single down the left field line with two outs in a five-run inning.

The lead was short-lived, however, as Augustana matched Concordia's five-spot in the top of the second starting with a leadoff home run by Theresa McMahon, her seventh of the season. The next four runs that crossed the plate in the inning were all unearned, but still knocked the starter, Zepeda, from the game after the inning.

Concordia added a run in the bottom of the inning on Roth's sacrifice fly but Augustana kept the pressure on with three runs in the third for an 11-6 lead on Erin Kempf's three-run homer.

Roth would club a two-run homer in the fourth to cut the margin to three runs, 11-8 but the Vikings continued to put up runs in bunches with three in the sixth and two more in the seventh.

Zepeda took the loss, falling to 0-1 in her first decision in the circle. Kappes pitched the middle three innings and Kluever worked the final two.

Trautmann pitched a complete game for Augustana to improve to 23-6 despite allowing nine runs over seven innings. She struck out eight, walked six and allowed 11 hits. At the plate, Trautmann helped her own cause by going 2-4 with her 17th homer, three RBI and three runs.

Roth went 2-2 in the game, with her fourth home run while driving in three and scoring twice. Larsen went 3-4 with a pair of RBI and scored twice while hitting her 12th double.

Concordia returns to the diamond this Wednesday with a doubleheader scheduled at Southwest Minnesota State in Marshall, Minn. and concludes the NSIC regular season next weekend with a scheduled road trip to St. Cloud State and Minnesota Duluth.