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Al Case, Ashland Daily Photo
4
Winner Southern Oregon SOU 35-15
2
Oregon Tech OIT 27-20
Winner
Southern Oregon SOU
35-15
4
Final
2
Oregon Tech OIT
27-20
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Southern Oregon SOU 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 4 10 1
Oregon Tech OIT 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 5 3

W: White, Sydney (14-8) L: GUISCHER, Ann-Marie (11-8)

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Winner Southern Oregon SOU 36-15
5
Corban University CRB 36-19
Winner
Southern Oregon SOU
36-15
16
Final
5
Corban University CRB
36-19
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 R H E
Southern Oregon SOU 1 3 0 3 9 16 12 1
Corban University CRB 0 0 2 3 0 5 10 7

W: Mackey, Victoria (16-3) L: HOLSINGER, Jessica (17-10)

Game Recap: Softball | | SOU Sports Information

Raiders fend off elimination twice to set up Sunday meeting with UGF

FRIDAY'S RESULTS
Eastern Oregon 7, Corban 1 (9 inn.)
Great Falls 3, Oregon Tech 2
Eastern Oregon 12, Southern Oregon 11
Great Falls 5, Carroll 3

SATURDAY'S RESULTS
Southern Oregon 4, Oregon Tech 2 (9 inn.) (OIT eliminated)
Corban 10, Carroll 3 (Carroll eliminated)
Eastern Oregon 3, Great Falls 0
Southern Oregon 16, Corban 5 (5 inn.) (Corban eliminated)

SUNDAY'S GAMES
Game 9 - SOU vs. Great Falls, 11 a.m.
Game 10 - Game 9 Winner vs. Eastern Oregon, 1:30 p.m.
Game 11 (If necessary) - Game 9/10 winner vs. Eastern Oregon

ASHLAND – With its season on the line, the 20th-ranked Southern Oregon University softball team came up big twice Saturday in a pair of Cascade Conference Tournament elimination games at University field and kept its season alive for at least another day.

The Raiders – whose backs were placed against the wall after a 12-11 loss to Eastern Oregon in their tournament opener on Friday – came back with a 4-2 win over Oregon Tech in nine innings to start the day before ending it with a 16-5 knockout of Corban. They ran their record to 36-15 and set up a date at 11 a.m. Sunday against Great Falls (24-17) for the right to play Eastern Oregon in the championship round at 1:30 p.m.

The winner would have to defeat EOU twice for the title but would also take the CCC's second automatic bid to the NAIA tournament. The Raiders have never appeared in the conference championship game.

To stay alive, the Raiders defeated OIT for the fourth time in five tries this season – those five games were decided by a total of seven runs, and three went to extra innings – and ended a four-game losing streak against Corban.

SOUTHERN OREGON 16, CORBAN 5 (5 inn.)
The grind of a second elimination game in one day appeared to get to Corban during an ugly fifth inning that proved to be its final undoing in a 16-5 loss to SOU.

The Warriors committed seven errors that led to 11 unearned runs, including five errors in a nine-run fifth inning that enabled SOU to pad its 7-5 lead. The game ended by way of the mercy rule after Sydney White tossed a perfect inning in relief of starter Victoria Mackey, who improved to 16-3 on the season.

Corban finished its season with a record of 35-19.

SOU totaled 12 hits to the Warriors' 10. Megan Winton went 3-for-4 with three runs and an RBI, while Kelsey Randall (3 runs, 2 RBI, 1 walk), Kayleen Smith (2 runs, 3 RBI), and Abigail Lund (2 runs, 2 RBI) all went 2-for-3.

The Raiders were up 4-0 through two innings, but the Warriors trimmed their lead down to two runs after four. Corban's Maddy Melton, Iris Rodriguez and Raimee Sluder had two hits apiece.

Smith's RBI single scored Randall to give SOU the lead in the first inning. In the second, Randall poked a run-scoring single to the opposite field before another run scored on a fielding error and Smith hit a sacrifice fly. Smith's third RBI of the game came on a single in the fourth, and her ensuing steal of second base prompted a throwing error by the catcher that allowed Alexa Gonzalez to come home. After a two-out RBI single from Tyler Burke, the Raiders were up 7-2.

SOUTHERN OREGON 4, OREGON TECH 2 (9 inn.)
When Southern Oregon had trouble helping itself, Oregon Tech finally gave the Raiders a hand in the ninth inning of their 4-2 win.

With two outs in the top of the ninth, the score tied at 1 and Jazmin Ruvalcaba at bat, runners Kayleen Smith and Aaliyah Oliver – who both reached via walks – moved to second and third on Ann-Marie Guischer's wild pitch. Ruvalcaba then grounded to shortstop, but the ball was bobbled by Alyssa Davis and her throw was wide, allowing Oliver to score the go-ahead run. Amelia Hensler and Megan Winton followed with lined RBI singles to make it 4-1.

The 23rd-ranked Owls' season is likely over at 27-20.

SOU missed out on several chances to take the lead earlier, stranding runners in scoring position in four different innings. It had runners on second and third with no outs in the seventh before a pop-up to the pitcher and a 5-3-2 double play ended the threat.

Sydney White (14-8) kept the Raiders going by lasting all nine innings and holding the Owls to five hits and one earned run with six strikeouts – less than 24 hours after allowing eight runs in 3 2/3 innings against EOU. Smith also saved the game and possibly the season on an outstanding defensive play in the bottom of the eighth: With two outs and the potential winning run at third, she leapt and extended to snag Tre Sullivan's liner that was bound for right field.

Guischer (11-8) was sharp for OIT, too. She lasted 8 2/3, allowing four runs but only one earned on 10 hits.

Pinch-hitter Sadie Birch initially gave the Owls a 1-0 lead in the fifth on a two-out single to left that scored pinch-runner Karly LeVeque, but Megan Winton tied it in the sixth with a roper to right that brought home Burke.
 
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