St. Thomas softball won their first game on Sunday against St. Catherine 5-4 on a walk-off hit from senior Sam Birling, but St. Catherine was able to break the Tommies’ nine game home winning streak in the second game, losing 5-2 at South Field.

After the Wildcats (17-9, 12-4 MIAC) got ahead of the Tommies (22-6, 15-3 MIAC) by three runs in the fifth inning, the Tommies were unable to bridge the point gap, and were forced to rely on senior pitcher Kiersten Anderson-Glass to strike out the Wildcats at the end of the second game.

Redshirt first-year pitcher Duke Coborn set the tone for St. Thomas baseball Saturday with his eight inning, two hit performance in a 9-1 win over Crown College at Koch Diamond. The result snapped a four game winning streak for Crown and kept St. Thomas’ undefeated home record this season alive.

Crown used seven pitchers throughout the game as St. Thomas sprinkled on at least one run in seven of their eight innings at the plate. Six of the nine St. Thomas’ runs were scored by players who reached base on a walk.

Jose Berrios is scheduled to start for the Twins on Monday as they take on the Cleveland Indians.

Minnesota has lost 11 of its last 13 games, and its seven wins are tied with Detroit for fewest in the American league.

The Indians are 7-6 against AL Central teams. Cleveland has slugged .372 this season. Jordan Luplow leads the team with a mark of .651.

The Twins have gone 2-1 against division opponents. Minnesota is slugging .391 as a unit. Byron Buxton leads the team with a slugging percentage of .818.

Emily Rudie can be reached at rudi7985@stthomas.edu.