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Al Case, Ashland Daily Photo
SOU pitcher Victoria Mackey made her return to the circle Saturday. (Al Case, Ashland Daily Photo)
13
Winner Southern Oregon SOU 13-4
7
College of Idaho CI 3-7
Winner
Southern Oregon SOU
13-4
13
Final
7
College of Idaho CI
3-7
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Southern Oregon SOU 2 0 1 6 1 3 0 13 15 3
College of Idaho CI 0 0 4 1 1 0 1 7 10 5

W: Raasch, Lexie (1-0) L: ROBERT, Colette (2-3) S: Coughlin, Karlee (1)

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Winner Southern Oregon SOU 14-4
4
College of Idaho CI 3-8
Winner
Southern Oregon SOU
14-4
8
Final
4
College of Idaho CI
3-8
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Southern Oregon SOU 3 3 0 0 0 2 0 8 9 2
College of Idaho CI 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 4 8 4

W: Mackey, Victoria (1-0) L: KORDOPATIS, Alex (0-3)

Game Recap: Softball | | SOU Sports Information

Randall, Raiders club Yotes twice to win series

CALDWELL, Idaho – Kelsey Randall and the Southern Oregon softball team initiated a parade around the bases to complete a series victory over College of Idaho, taking 13-7 and 8-4 decisions on a damp and chilly afternoon Saturday at Symms Field.

The first win made the Raiders (14-4 overall) 2-1 in the Cascade Conference-opening series against the Yotes (3-8), and the second was a nonleague counter. Randall went 6-for-9 with two triples, a double and four runs scored on the day – she had three hits in each of the last three games of the series – and Tyler Burke and Taylor Martinez both launched two-run home runs in the finale.

SOU totaled 24 hits on the day and 44 on the weekend. C of I aided the effort with 17 errors that led to 12 unearned runs over the four-game set.

Three of those errors occurred in the fourth inning of Game 1, helping the Raiders to turn a 4-3 disadvantage into a 9-4 lead. They had five hits in the frame – Randall, Karlee Coughlin and Hannah Wessel had RBI singles – but five of the runs scored after the Yotes could have already been out of the inning.

Harlee Donovan went 2-for-4, hitting a run-scoring single in the first and a run-scoring infield single in the third, and Aaliyah Oliver went 3-for-4 with a triple and three runs scored. Burke added two hits, including a three-run double to left-center field in the sixth.

Lexie Raasch picked up the first win of her career with two innings of relief, and Coughlin allowed two hits and one run over three innings to earn the save.

The Raiders broke open Game 2 early. Randall led off the game with a single, Donovan walked and Coughlin hit a sacrifice fly. Martinez came up next and drove her team-leading third homer of the season over the fence in right-center field.

Burke made it 5-0 in the second with the third homer of her career – a shot to right that score Kristen Mauroschadt, who had reached with a single. It was 6-0 after Randall tripled and scored on a throwing error later in the inning.

Coughlin added her second RBI on a single in the sixth and also scored on a wild pitch.

SOU also had a positive development in the circle, where sophomore Victoria Mackey – who went 16-3 last year – came back from injury to appear for the first time in 2017. She pitched 3 1/3 innings of one-hit relief to earn the win, coming on for starter Lacie Crawford after she gave up four runs (just two earned) in 3 2/3 innings.

The Raiders debut at home next Friday and Saturday with a CCC series against Great Falls (Mont.).
 
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