Softball loses to Luther College 3-0, season ends

PELLA, Iowa – Luther College sophomore pitcher Becca Girvan threw a two-hit shutout to bring the St. Thomas softball team’s season to an early and disappointing end. Girvan struck out 14 batters in seven innings of work to lead the Norse to a 2-0 victory Saturday, May 12, in the NCAA Division III regionals.

Student’s England trip leads to published research

St. Thomas junior Sara Diener’s research was published in a scholarly journal. She spent the last year studying abroad at the University of Leeds in England. After months of research on chemical complexes, her work was submitted and eventually published in Dalton Transactions, an international journal of inorganic chemistry.