SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - The Concordia-St. Paul softball team's (25-29) season ended with a 5-3 loss to No. 3 seed Winona State (41-13) at the single-elimination NSIC Tournament. Junior Riley Rosenthal led the way for the Golden Bears with a solo home run and an RBI. 

Senior Erica McCullough pitched all six innings for Concordia. She allowed five earned runs on 11 hits and two walks. McCullough threw five strikeouts, two of which came on back-to-back at-bats in the second inning where she threw seven straight strikes or foul balls. 

Rosenthal started the scoring with a solo home run in the first inning down the left-field line. Sophomore Alexis Monty added a solo home run of her own in the third inning to give the Golden Bears an early 2-0 advantage. 

The Warriors slowly grinded their way back into the game starting with a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the third. An RBI single in the fourth inning tied the game at two. A solo homer by Alyssa Woelfel and an RBI single by Jaden Johnson gave the Warriors a 4-2 advantage in the fifth. 

Rosenthal doubled in the sixth inning, leading to Bryleigh Dana hitting a two-out single to trail, 4-3. The Warriors added an insurance run in the bottom of the sixth inning. CSP got a runner on base with a walk in the seventh but could not convert. 

Monty and Dana each had a hit to tally two of the four for Concordia-St. Paul. The Warriors outhit the Golden Bears 11-4. Winona State committed the only error of the game. 

Winona State's Izzy Howe pitched all seven innings allowing three earned runs. She walked one batter and had three strikeouts. The Warriors left eight runners on base compared to only three for Concordia.