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SALEM – Corban honored Southern Oregon University softball assistant Stephanie Hull on Monday for the all-time NAIA home run record she set with the Warriors last year.

Then the Raiders went out and did their best Hull impressions with some improbably spot-on execution. SOU, which started the day as the only Cascade Conference team without a home run to its credit, ended the dinger drought with a bang – five of them, actually – to defeat Corban 14-6 and 8-7 at Warrior Field.

Julia Willison (Reno, Nevada/McQueen) went deep twice, belting a three-run homer in the first inning of Game 1 and a grand slam in the first inning of Game 2. Megan Scherer (Oakland, Calif./Bishop O'Dowd) had a four-hit day, her first home run as a Raider included. And Sierra Anderson (Portland, Ore./Sunset) hit a three-run shot in Game 1 and a two-run double that broke a 5-5 tie in the fifth inning of Game 2 to put SOU up for good.

The Raiders (10-10 overall, 9-3 CCC) swept the season series and have swept four of their last five doubleheaders going into weekend tilts Friday at 24th-ranked College of Idaho and Saturday at Eastern Oregon. The Warriors (19-15, 6-10), who on Sunday became the first team to take out first-place Oregon Tech, had won four of five.

The last time SOU owned 9-3 conference record was 2009.

Brianne Craig (Rialto, Calif./Etiwanda H.S.) also smacked her first career homer, a solo job, while working through her fourth consecutive complete game for the win in the opener. She allowed four earned runs and improved to 4-3.

Karlie Stephens (Eagle Point, Ore./Eagle Point) limited the Warriors to four hits and two runs in 5 1/3 innings of relief to win the nightcap. She struck out four without a walk and set down the last three Warriors after they got the potential tying run on with no outs in the seventh.

The Raiders hadn't scored more than eight runs in a game or 15 in a doubleheader this season. The last time they hit four home runs in a game was March 3, 2012, and they'd gone without one in 36 of their previous 37 contests dating back to last year.

In the opener, Willison's homer and Anderson's RBI single gave the Raiders a 4-1 lead after three. Scherer's three-run homer in the fifth, followed by Craig and Anderson's shots, blew it open. Sulie Augustine (Portland, Ore./Central Catholic) and Ashley Lowe (Sacramento, Calif./Ck. McClatchy) added RBI singles.

Augustine went 2-for-3 with four runs scored, Alexa Gonzalez (Menifee, Calif./Heritage) went 2-for-5 with two runs and Scherer was 3-for-4.

Corban fought back from a 5-0 deficit in Game 2 with McCayla Hoffman's two-run homer and Kyrianna Sorensen's three-run triple in the second. Anderson delivered the deciding blow after walks to Gonzalez and Augustine set the table.

Kassie Smith (Fontana, Calif./Summit) added an RBI double for SOU. Gonzalez, Augustine and Anderson each scored twice in the nightcap.