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REDDING, Calif. – The Southern Oregon University softball team got back in the win column Saturday morning with a 3-1 win over William Jessup before getting stung in the seventh inning of a 2-1 loss to 10th-ranked Simpson.

The Raiders went to 17-7 overall going into doubleheaders Monday and Tuesday at 14th-ranked Biola (Calif.) and No. 8 Concordia (Calif.).

Rebounding from Friday's two losses, the Raiders broke a scoreless tie against William Jessup with two fifth-inning runs. Kelsey Randall (Concord, Calif./Concord)'s single up the middle scored Megan Winton (Davis, Calif./Davis Senior) and Ally Painter (La Palma, Calif./St. Joseph), who reached on a hit-by-pitch and a fielding error.

WJU strung together a couple singles to get one back in the bottom of the fifth. In the seventh, Painter was plunked again, moved over on Krystina Pardoski (Gaberville, Calif./South Fork)'s single and scored on an error.

Brianne Craig (Rialto, Calif./Etiwanda) pitched a complete game for the win, allowing five hits and working around a couple walks in the seventh. She struck out one as an errorless defense worked behind her.

Later in the afternoon, Simpson's Paris Hallums worked seven innings for the second day in a row against the Raiders, allowing four hits and walking one. 

Trailing 1-0 in the fifth, SOU tied it as Winton singled and was sacrificed over, then scored on Pardoski's successfully-executed squeeze. 

Hallums retired the last seven Raiders, and the Redhawks won it in the last at-bat. Kayla Mah doubled and moved to third on an error, and a Courtney Thomas single ended it. 

Cheyenne Bricker (Bieber, Calif./Big Valley) had another strong outing for SOU, going six-plus and allowing two runs on seven hits and four walks. She was removed after Mah's double in the seventh.