The balls were flying in Pendleton on Wednesday March 23^rd.
 
The Lower Columbia softball team swept Blue Mountain by scores of 16-8 (6) and 10-9.  With the road sweep, the Red Devils record is now 7-1 on the season.
 
In game one, Bailey Hockett had a big game as she went 4 for 4 with three RBI's.  Hockett, who is just getting back into softball after playing basketball at LCC, hit her first college home run.
 
Ashley Kelly was 3 for 5 with three RBI's.  Sam Boyce, also coming off a hoops season for LC, went 3-5 and Mariah Mendez was 3 for 4.
 
Hannah Rothwell hit a three run bomb, part of a 2 for 3, five RBI game.  Jessica Gibson also hit a homer, her fifth in five games.
 
LCC had 20 hits in the game.
 
Krystina Fischer went the first three innings, allowing just one run.
 
The offensive explosion continued in game two.
 
After a Gibson RBI single in the first, the Devils plated five runs on six hits in the second inning.  Nicole Bolasky hit a two-run triple and Kelly hit a laser beam two-run homer to center putting LCC on top 6-0.
 
Blue Mountain came back with four runs in the 2^nd and four runs in the 3^rd, taking an 8-6 lead. Fischer came on in relief in the 4^th and got a 4-6-3 double play to end the frame.
 
The Devils then came back with three runs in the 5^th, all with two outs, to retake the lead 9-8. They tacked on another run in the 6^th to take a 10-8 lead.
 
In the 7^th, the Devils gunned down the potential tying run at the plate with a great throw by Bolasky and an excellent tag by Boyce.  Final score 10-9 Lower Columbia.
 
The Devils will have the home opener on Thursday March 24^th, a makeup DH against the Linfield JV's at Tam O'Shanter Park. Start time in 2 pm.