SALEM – The No. 3-ranked Southern Oregon softball team continued to overmatch Corban in all facets on Saturday afternoon, completing a four-game sweep with 9-1 and 11-1 victories at Warrior Field.
Senior second baseman
Vanessa Lang went 6-for-8 with four runs scored and two RBIs, and
Ayla Davies and
Lexi Ramirez provided two more dominant starts for the Raiders, who upped their record to 25-9 overall and 7-5 in the CCC.
In the series, the Raiders outscored Corban (2-20, 2-10) 35-3 combined, they had a 48-9 advantage in hits, and they didn't commit a single defensive error while the Warriors had 14.
Corban accumulated eight of those errors in Saturday's opener, the third and final CCC counter of the set. The Raiders scored their first three runs on booted grounders in the third and fourth innings, and they made the score 5-0 on RBI groundouts by
Brooke Nordahl and Elysia Durate in the fifth. They tacked on four more in the seventh, where Ramirez and
Glory Pistole hit run-scoring singles.
Meanwhile, after tossing a shutout on Friday, Davies surrendered only two hits again and didn't have her no-hitter broken up until the seventh inning. The sophomore struck out four in her 50th career victory.
After scoring three times in Game 1, Lang tallied four hits in Game 2, including a two-run single that put the Raiders up 4-1 in the fourth. They broke the game wide open in the seventh with a rally completed by back-to-back doubles from
Ari Williams and Ramirez.
Ramirez gave up four hits over six frames and has now limited opponents to one run in six of her last seven starts.
Tatiana Blas pitched a perfect seventh inning.
Williams went 2-for-4 with a run scored and two RBIs. Davies and
Michelle Hara both came off the bench with RBI singles, as did
Gabby Heiken with a run-scoring liner to the outfield grass.
The Raiders ended the weekend third place in the standings behind Oregon Tech (11-1) and Eastern Oregon (9-3). They host eighth-place Bushnell next weekend.