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Al Case, Ashland Daily Photo
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Northwest (Wash.) NU 7-12
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Winner Southern Oregon SOU 18-9
Northwest (Wash.) NU
7-12
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Final
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Southern Oregon SOU
18-9
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Northwest (Wash.) NU 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 1
Southern Oregon SOU 0 0 0 3 0 2 0 5 13 0

W: White, Sydney (5-4) L: PECKHAM, Kelli (4-7)

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Northwest (Wash.) NU 7-13
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Winner Southern Oregon SOU 19-9
Northwest (Wash.) NU
7-13
4
Final
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Southern Oregon SOU
19-9
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Northwest (Wash.) NU 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 4 7 1
Southern Oregon SOU 0 0 0 0 3 2 X 5 10 1

W: Mackey, Victoria (9-1) L: YELAS, Hannah (3-6) S: White, Sydney (1)

Game Recap: Softball | | SOU Sports Information

Raiders end eventful afternoon with two wins over Northwest

ASHLAND – The 16th-ranked Southern Oregon softball team hit a few milestones Friday afternoon, and all of them mattered within the context of 5-1 and 5-4 Cascade Conference victories over Northwest (Wash.) at University Field.

Senior pitcher Sydney White notched her 30th career win for the Raiders (19-9 overall, 5-3 CCC) in the opener, spinning her third successful complete game in seven days to improve to 5-4. She also earned the save in Game 2, entering in the seventh inning of a one-run game and stranding two runners in scoring position to seal it.

Junior second baseman Kayleen Smith matched and then broke an SOU team record by stretching her hitting streak to 17 games, going 4-for-7 on the day with two extra-base hits. In the fourth inning of a scoreless Game 1, she led off with a single, stole two bases and scored the go-ahead run on Abigail Lund's bunt single, and with the Raiders trailing 1-0 in the fifth inning of Game 2 she lined an RBI triple and went on to score another go-ahead run.

SOU also blasted two home runs in the same home game for the first time in four years in the nightcap, and both gave the Raiders the lead – Nicole Cardoza's two-run job in the fifth and Davalin Ontiveros' solo shot in the sixth. Neither Cardoza nor Ontiveros had homered this season coming into the day.

Northwest dropped to 7-13 overall and 2-6 in the CCC.

White – who last weekend allowed just two runs in 14 innings in wins at Carroll and Great Falls – had a one-hit shutout working through six innings against the Eagles. Her final line included three hits, seven strikeouts and two walks.

SOU went ahead in the opener with three runs in the fourth. After Smith scored on Lund's bunt, Megan Winton tripled Lund home and Jazmin Ruvalcaba's RBI single capped the rally.

Ruvalcaba added a two-run insurance single in the sixth. She, Lund, Winton, Smith and Kelsey Randall had two hits apiece, and SOU totaled 13.

SOU's Victoria Mackey got the decision in Game 2, going to 9-1 with six innings in which she allowed six hits, four runs and struck out two with a walk.

The Eagles struck first with Allie Anderegg's leadoff homer in the fourth. After Cardoza's two-run homer made it 3-1 in the fifth, Savannah Rush tied it with a two-run shot of her own in the top of the sixth.

Ontiveros lined her longball over the fence in left field in the bottom of the sixth, and the Raiders added one more to make it 5-3 when Taylor Martinez and Tyler Burke stroked back-to-back singles with no outs, Randall bunted them over and Alexa Gonzalez hit a sacrifice fly.

In the seventh, Northwest's Ricki Tacdol chased Mackey off the mound with Northwest's third home run of the game to start the inning. Down 5-4, Danielle Bonsky singled and, with one out, Aubree Slocum reached on an error to put runners on first and second. Northwest opted for a sacrifice bunt with leadoff hitter Alyssa Gonzalez at the plate, though, and Darian Godfrey's grounder to first was fielded by Martinez to end the threat and the game.

"We showed a lot of fight today," SOU head coach Jessica Pistole said. "Every time they came at us, we had an answer, and that was encouraging to see."

Martinez went 3-for-3 for the Raiders, and Gonzalez went 2-for-3 with a run scored for the Eagles.

Northwest's pitchers of decision were Kelli Peckham (4-7) in Game 1 and Hannah Yelas (3-6) in Game 2.

SOU will resume its 10-game homestand at 11 a.m. Saturday with its first CCC twin bill against University of British Columbia.

Scheduling Note: Instead of hosting Simpson in a make-up nonleague doubleheader on April 5, the Raiders will play a make-up CCC doubleheader at Northwest Christian; and instead of hosting Walla Walla in a CCC doubleheader on April 8, the Wolves will forfeit those games along with the rest of their remaining schedule. Both wins will be counted as nonleague, though, for SOU.
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