(Kelso, WA) – There were good feels all across Tam O'Shanter Park on Friday and Saturday March 15
th and 16
th.
The weather was spectacular and the Devils were productive. Two of the great championship teams of the past were also honored and Coach
Traci Fuller hit a tremendous milestone.
Game One Friday – LCC 11 Clark 2 (4 ½ innings)
The Devils exploded for nine runs on nine hits in the third inning and cruised in the South Region opener. The inning featured an RBI single by
Brooklyn Loose, a three-run double by
Teeghan Reams, an run scoring single by
Bella Aspaas, a Lexie Grumbois RBI single, RBI double's by
Joelie Eder and
Sawyer Stenson and capped off by a
Raychel Squibb RBI base hit.
Eder continue hot going 3 for 3 with three RBI's. Her two-run homer in the bottom of the first got the offense flying.
Leanna Russell also had three hits for LCC.
Reams went the distance allowing two runs and four hits.
Following the second game, LCC head coach
Traci Fuller was honored with a framed photograph to commemorate her 300
th victory as the LCC head coach.
Game Two Friday – LCC 6 Clark 1
Devils starter
Sadie Knutson was in control the entire way. She went seven innings and allowed just four hits and one run. The sophomore righthander punched out eight Penguins.
The big blast was Eder's three-run homer in the third inning.
Russell drove in two runs. LCC got doubles from Squibb, Loose, Allison Baumgardt,
Kaydence Mackin and Knutson.
Game One Saturday – LCC 10 Grays Harbor 1 (6 innings)
It took the Devils a while to get things going. The game was tied 1-1 after four innings before LCC scored four in the 5
th and five in the 6
th.
After plating two unearned runs in the 4
th, Grumbois drove in two with a single. The balls were flying out in the 6
th. Loose hit a solo dinger and Eder later blasted a two-run shot. Eder has 10 homers in the first 20 games of her college career.
Reams got her second win of the weekend with a complete game four hitter.
Game Two Saturday – LCC 10 Grays Harbor 1 (4 1/2 innings)
Knutson got all the offense she would need as she went five innings and struck out nine. She allowed just two hits.
Grumbois got things going with a lead-off solo homer in the first inning. Mackin's sac fly made it 3-0 after three. Then a seven spot in the 4
th put it out of reach. Stenson had an RBI single in the frame followed by Loose's three-run double. Baumgardt drove in a run with a single. Mackin then unloaded a two-run shot for her first college home run.
Between Saturday's games, the 1994 and 1999 LCC NWAC championship teams were honored with induction into the Lower Columbia athletics Hall of Fame. It was a great turnout of Devil champions of the past and they got to see the current LCC team do damage similar to what they inflicted many years ago.
The Devils return to action Saturday March 23
rd when the make the short trip to Centralia for a 10 am double header on the Centralia College campus.
