sandoval
Al Case, Ashland Daily Photo
Al Case, Ashland Daily Photo.
2
Southern Oregon SOU 25-5
5
Winner Corban University CRB 23-6
Southern Oregon SOU
25-5
2
Final
5
Corban University CRB
23-6
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Southern Oregon SOU 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 11 0
Corban University CRB 0 1 4 0 0 0 X 5 10 0

W: BOYD, Sabrina (11-2) L: Sandoval, Gabby (11-4)

5
Southern Oregon SOU 25-6
6
Winner Corban University CRB 24-6
Southern Oregon SOU
25-6
5
Final
6
Corban University CRB
24-6
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Southern Oregon SOU 1 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 5 9 1
Corban University CRB 0 2 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 6 11 4

W: GRANEY, Kaylee (2-0) L: Sandoval, Gabby (11-5)

Game Recap: Softball | | SOU Sports Information

Corban slows down Raiders, forces 1st-place tie

SALEM – Corban worked a couple extra innings against Southern Oregon to tighten the Cascade Conference softball title race Saturday at Warrior Field.

The 18th-ranked Raiders, who'd won 13 in a row when the day started, dropped a 5-2 opener and a nine-inning 6-5 decision in Game 2. Corban (24-6 overall, 11-3 CCC) completed the sweep when Sam Woodley hit a two-out single to score Taylor Eilders after three walks loaded the bases.

SOU (25-6, 11-3) and Corban play two more Sunday, a CCC counter at noon and a nonleague game at 2 p.m. They're now tied in first place and one game ahead of Oregon Tech and Eastern Oregon in the loss column.

Woodley, a catcher, went 6-for-8 with four runs and three RBI in the twin bill for the Warriors. She also starred in Game 1, scoring the day's first run after leading off the second with a single and hitting a two-run single that put the Warriors up 3-0 in the third. A few batters later, Raimee Sluder's deep double to right made it 5-0.

Gabby Sandoval took the loss, allowing five runs in 2 1/3 innings. Corban pitcher Sabrina Boyd (11-2) went the distance while working around 11 hits and two free passes. The Raiders left nine runners on base. Kelsey Randall went 3-for-3 and Taylor Martinez and Kayleen Smith had two hits apiece, but all they had to show for it was Smith's two-run double in the seventh.

Randall also recorded a hit and scored a pair of runs in Game 2, reaching base six times on the day and bringing her hitting streak to 16 games – now the second-longest in SOU history. She was on base when, tied 4-4 with one out in the sixth inning, Harlee Donovan put the Raiders ahead with an RBI single to right.

In the bottom of the sixth, though, Woodley led off with a double and Sluder turned her into the tying run with a two-out RBI single.

The Raiders had trailed 4-1 after Jessie Isham, a transfer first baseman from University of Minnesota, cranked a two-run home run in the third inning. They tied it with three runs, all unearned, in the fourth, as Aaliyah Oliver scored on a throwing error, Randall (who had reached on a fielding error) scored on Donovan's RBI single and Rebecca Velasquez drove in Smith with a groundout.

SOU reliever Victoria Mackey entered for Karlee Coughlin in sixth and threw 2 1/3 scoreless innings after going 2 2/3 scoreless in Game 1. Sandoval came in to start the ninth inning and took the loss, falling to 11-5. Kaylee Graney threw five innings of three-hit relief for Corban to get the win.

Donovan and Martinez both had two hits for the Raiders. Isham, Woodley and Iris Rodriguez accounted for seven of Corban's 11 hits. The Warriors only left six on base, while the Raiders stranded 12 more.
 
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