Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 CALDWELL, Idaho – Southern Oregon needed one win at College of Idaho and that's what it got Saturday afternoon to clinch its second straight trip to the postseason.

Freshman shortstop Kelsey Randall (Concord, Calif./Concord) tied SOU's single-season hits record by going 5-for-7 on the day, notching three singles and three RBIs to lead the Raiders to a 7-1 victory in the opener. The Coyotes won Game 2, 9-5, but by then the damage had been done.

SOU (31-23 overall, 12-14 Cascade Conference) earned the CCC's fourth and final berth in an upcoming playoff, which will take place May 1-3 and also include one Frontier Conference team. Seeding is to be determined by a point system that will be finalized when the Raiders complete the regular season next Friday at Concordia.

The Yotes (19-31, 10-18) needed to defeat SOU twice and the Raiders to lose two at Concordia to force a fourth-place tie.

The Raiders avoided that scenario behind Brianne Craig (Rialto, Calif./Etiwanda)'s complete game in the opener. She blanked C of I through the final six innings and yielded four hits to improve to 13-7 on the mound.

After falling behind in the first, Randall put the Raiders up in the second with an opposite-field single that scored Kayla Douglas (Santa Rosa, Calif./Cardinal Newman) and Megan Winton (Davis, Calif./Davis Senior). Douglas's single plated two more runs in the third, and her third hit of the game drove in the first run in a three-run seventh.

Randall now has 80 hits and 51 runs scored, tying records that were both established by Deni Rowley in 2006.

Winton added two hits and two runs in the opener.

Ally Painter (La Palma, Calif./St. Joseph) went 3-for-4 with a double and a two-run single in Game 2, while Gina Ayala (Norwalk, Calif./Santa Fe) went 1-for-2 with a run, an RBI and two walks.

Katie Rowe's three-run homer put the Yotes up for good in the first inning, and Hailey Chambers tacked on a two-run bomb in the fourth.

SOU hadn't advanced to the postseason in consecutive years since 2005 and '06.