The Lower Columbia Red Devil softball team came out fired up and swept the Clark Penguins on Saturday May 6^th in Kelso.
 
The game scores were 9-0 and 14-6, both achieved via the 8-run mercy rule.
 
Jessica Gibson got plenty of offensive support but didn't need much.  The sophomore lefty pitched a five inning no-hitter. Gibby walked one and just one other Clark batter reached on an error. Gibson was masterful.
 
The Devils played longball as Aurora Gouley led off the game with a solo homer, the first of four over the fence shots.  Rothwell hit a bomb off the cell tower in right field, Myranda Krull went yard and Bailey Hockett ended the game with a walkoff two-run shot.
 
Gouley was 3 for 3. Shanay Dotson also went 3 for 3.  Christine Robbins was 2 for 3.  Hockett and Rothwell both went 2 for 3 with 2 RBI's.
 
LCC took complete control of game two by scoring 11 runs in the second inning alone.  There were plenty of highlights in the frame including a Rothwell two-run double, a two-run homer for Robbins, Cheyenne Gilbertson with an RBI double and Brianna Harvill's two-run single.
 
The Penguins extended the game to a sixth inning by scoring five runs in the 5^th.
 
Sam Boyce provided an RBI single in the 5^th.  The Devils then won it in the 6^th on a walk-off sacrifice fly by Gouley.
 
Gibson started game two and was relieved by Robbins and Taylor Brooks. Robbins got the victory.
 
The Devils go to 13-9 in the South and 15-11 overall.
 
LCC will travel to Centralia on Sunday May 7^th to complete a double header that was suspended last Wednesday when severe weather hit Hub City.  The game will resume in the 4^th inning with Centralia leading 4-1.  There will also be a second game.