ASHLAND – Ayla Davies overwhelmed again in top-ranked Southern Oregon's doubleheader sweep of No. 23 College of Idaho on Thursday afternoon at University Field.

The precocious freshman pitcher started the day with a one-hit shutout in SOU's 8-0, six-inning Game 1 victory. She ended it with four more dazzling innings of relief in Game 2, earning another decision in a 10-5 victory after Hailey Seva lifted a tiebreaking two-run home run over the center-field fence in the fifth inning.

In 10 scoreless innings of work, Davies gave up two hits, struck out 14 and walked one. She upped her record to 24-2, lowered her ERA to 0.75, and helped the Raiders (40-4 overall, 21-2 Cascade Conference) maintain their first-place standing while hitting the 40-win milestone for the eighth consecutive full season.

SOU's offense matched Davies' superb form with 26 hits. Kennedy Kila, Sarah Kerling and Brooke Nordahl supplied four apiece.

C of I's second-inning error gave the Raiders a 1-0 lead in Game 1. That score held until they put up three runs in the fifth, getting an RBI triple from Kila and an RBI double from Ari Williams in back-to-back at-bats. Kerling, Kila and Williams piled on run-scoring singles in the sixth to put the mercy rule in effect.

Sammie Pemberton went 3-for-4 with two doubles, three RBIs and two runs scored in Game 2. She jump-started SOU's four-run first inning by driving in the first, but the Yotes used a few unearned runs to take a 5-4 lead by the middle of the third.

Nordahl's game-tying double made it 5-5 in the bottom of the third. After the Yotes got their leadoff runner on base to start the fourth, Davies became SOU's fourth pitcher of the contest.

She was also the last. She got a lead to work with when Seva followed Pemberton's fifth-inning double with her team-leading fourth home run.

The Raiders broke it open in the sixth. Pemberton gapped a two-run double and Kierstin Grotewiel drove in her second run of the game.

Kate Crosby went 3-for-4 with a double for the Yotes, who fell to 25-11 overall and 14-9 in the CCC. Madelyn Powell added a two-run triple.

SOU clinched its 30th CCC series win in its last 31 home series. The teams will play two more starting at 11 a.m. Friday – a conference counter followed by a non-conference affair.

After that, the Raiders head to second-place Eastern Oregon for the last set of the regular season.