By: SOU Sports Information
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Box Score 3 LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. – The No. 1-ranked Southern Oregon University softball team took two of three on Day 1 of the TCS NAIA SoCal Classic on Friday at Rosetta Canyon Sports Park – defeating No. 25 Marymount (Calif.) 11-3 in five innings, dropping a 2-0 decision to Embry-Riddle (Ariz.), and finishing with a 13-8 win over No. 9 Vanguard (Calif.).
The Raiders improved to 7-2 with three more to play Saturday at the Classic. Official statistics have not been provided by the tournament host, Triple Crown Sports.
GAME 1 – SOU 11, MARYMOUNT 8 (5 inn.): Allie Stines went 4-for-4 with three runs and two RBIs,
Lauren Quirke went 3-for-3 with two doubles and three RBIs, and the pair accounted for half of the Raiders' total hit count in an affair shortened by the eight-run rule.
Quirke smacked an RBI double in the first and a two-run double in SOU's five-run second inning. The Raiders, with the help of four Mariners errors, went up 10-2 by the end of the third. Stines' RBI single with two outs in the fifth triggered the mercy rule.
Abbie Lewis and
Hannah Shimek added two hits apiece. Junior pitcher
Hannah Lilly earned her first win as a Raider by working 4 1/3 innings, and
Hannah Stark recorded the last two outs.
GAME 2 – EMBRY-RIDDLE 2, SOU 0: Sophomore pitcher
Jordyn Ragan's first career complete game was spoiled as the Raiders were three-hit by the Eagles and shut out for the second time this season.
Ragan allowed five hits in the effort, giving up runs in the second and fifth innings. Stines,
Mackenzie Evangelisti and
Avery Morehead-Hutsell accounted for SOU's only hits.
GAME 3 – SOU 13, VANGUARD 8: The Raiders broke a 5-5 tie with six runs in the fifth inning, scoring their four win over a ranked opponent already behind another big game for Quirke, who went 4-for-5 with four runs scored and three RBIs.
Tayler Walker hit a two-run home run in the first inning and Quirke launched a solo shot in the fourth. Lewis and Stines poked three hits each, and
Paige Leeper went 2-for-5 with three runs and an RBI.
Gabby Sandoval earned the decision, improving to 4-0 with her fourth complete game. Half of the eight runs on her ledger were unearned.