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Al Case, Ashland Daily Photo
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Winner Southern Oregon SOU 31-9, 16-5 CCC
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Oregon Tech OIT 24-11, 14-7 CCC
Winner
Southern Oregon SOU
31-9, 16-5 CCC
7
Final
6
Oregon Tech OIT
24-11, 14-7 CCC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E
Southern Oregon SOU 0 0 4 0 0 0 2 1 7 15 1
Oregon Tech OIT 0 1 1 1 3 0 0 0 6 9 1

W: Mackey, Victoria (4-0) L: SCOTT, K. (10-4)

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Winner Southern Oregon SOU 32-9
1
Oregon Tech OIT 24-12
Winner
Southern Oregon SOU
32-9
9
Final
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Oregon Tech OIT
24-12
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 R H E
Southern Oregon SOU 1 0 2 2 4 9 13 1
Oregon Tech OIT 0 0 1 0 0 1 4 2

W: Coughlin, Karlee (11-0) L: SCOTT, K. (10-5)

Game Recap: Softball | | SOU Sports Information

Donovan, Lund power Raiders to series sweep of 25th-ranked Owls

KLAMATH FALLS – It took just two days for Harlee Donovan to earn one of the most sought-after labels for any Southern Oregon University athlete, but after what the junior transfer did to Oregon Tech this weekend she can now inarguably be regarded as an Owl killer.

Donovan hit home runs for the fifth and sixth consecutive games Saturday to give 21st-ranked SOU a sweep of the No. 25 Owls on Saturday with 7-6 and 9-1 victories at OIT Field. She homered five times in the four-game series and is up to 10 on the season, one shy of matching the Raider single-season record.

Her first of the day was a two-run shot in the top of the seventh inning that erased SOU's 6-4 deficit. The Raiders (32-9 overall, 16-5 Cascade Conference) went on to win it in extras, as Abigail Lund led off the eighth with a double, was sacrificed to third by Aaliyah Oliver and scored on Kelsey Randall's single up the middle.

In Game 2, a nonleague counter, Donovan hit a two-run bomb in the third and SOU eventually triggered the mercy rule in the fifth when Lund added a three-run shot to the opposite field – the senior's first of the season – and Kayleen Smith poked an RBI single. Karlee Coughlin brought her record to 11-0 with a four-hitter that she completed without a strikeout, helping her own cause with a 3-for-3 showing at the plate.

SOU took sole possession of second place, moving two games ahead of OIT (24-12, 14-7) and one ahead of Eastern Oregon. Corban still holds a two-game lead in first.

Smith had five hits and three runs on the day and Randall added four hits at the top of the lineup.

Victoria Mackey (4-0) earned the Game 1 victory by pitching four more innings of scoreless, two-hit relief. She's gone 30 innings without allowing an earned run this season and 37 1/3 dating back to last year.

Tyler Burke's two-run double and Taylor Martinez's one-run double in the third put SOU up 4-1, but the Owls made it 6-4 with a three-run sixth in which Rashaun Shells, Ali Graham and Sadie Birch had RBI hits.

Donovan's first blast of the day, with no one out and Smith on first in the seventh, got the Raiders back in it. Prior to her outburst, no SOU player had homered in more than three consecutive games.

Martinez got SOU started with an RBI single in the first inning of Game 2. After Donovan's homer, Tyler Burke hit a two-run single that opened the lead to 5-1 in the fourth. Burke went 2-for-3 with a pair of runs in the game and had three hits on the afternoon.

The Raiders last swept a regular-season series against OIT in 2009. They lost nine straight against the Owls from 2013-15 but have won nine of 11 meetings since.
 
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