Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 | Box Score 3 The weather was cold. The bats were hot.

The Lower Columbia softball team plated 46 runs during three games held at the RAC Complex in Lacey on Friday March 8 and Saturday March 9.

The scheduled game with Shoreline was canceled due to a flu outbreak that sickened many Dolphin players.

The pitching of Trinity Naugle sickened the Highline bats as the freshman twirled a five-inning complete-game one-hit shutout.  Naugle struck out 11 Thunderbirds as the Devils won 8-0.

Kaylee Strahan provided all the offense needed as she hit an intercontinental ballistic missile for a three run homer. Strahan was 3 for 3 with three RBI's.

Sariah Payne went 1 for 2 with two RBI's and Sarah Potwin had an RBI single.

On Saturday, LCC destroyed Skagit Valley 33-12.  There were many hitting stars in the rout.  Valeti Fifita drove in four runs with a two-run double, RBI single and a solo home run.

Sarah Russell hit her first college homer, a two-run shot.  Kami Gray and Potwin had two-run doubles.

It was a memorable game for LCC sophomore Allie Hall.  Asked to pitch for the first time since KSA youth ball, Hall gave up seven runs.  But she got a strikeout and provided innings while the Red Devils were without the injured Caitlyn Grogan and basketball player Nizhoni Wheeler.  Hall then came up to the plate and hit a three run homer.

The weekend finale was a close game against talented Douglas.  Tied at two in the fifth, the Royals scored five runs to take the lead and eventually the game 12-5.

Gray had a pair of two-run doubles for the Devils.  Fifita added an RBI double.

The Red Devils go to 7-2 on the season as they get ready to begin league play Saturday March 16th.  The first game gets underway at 12 pm in Aberdeen.