(Aberdeen, WA) – It took some time to get cooking, but the Lower Columbia softball team continued on a hot streak of offense to capture a pair of victories at Grays Harbor College on Wednesday April 10
th.
Game One – Lower Columbia 8 Grays Harbor 1
After being held scoreless for the first two innings,
Leanna Russell got things started with a run scoring double in the top of the third.
Allison Baumgart smacked a solo bomb to make it 2-0 in the 6
th. Then a six run 7
th inning put it out of reach.
Ella Dillon,
Maliyah Twitty and
Kaydence Mackin all had two run singles in the inning.
It was more than enough for pitcher
Teeghan Reams who allowed just an unearned run in the 7
th to collect her 11
th victory of the season.
Lexi Grumbois was 0-3 in the game, snapping her 26 game hitting streak to start her collegiate career.
Game Two – Lower Columbia 11 Grays Harbor 1
Sadie Knutson followed Reams with another solid pitching performance. Knutson went the distance and struck out 13 Chokers.
Raychel Squibb hit a massive home run in the second inning that would have gone even farther if not for the coastal winds blowing in.
Karlee VonMoos scored on a wild pitch and then Grumbois started a new hitting streak with a two-run single.
Lower Columbia scored two in the third on a VonMoos run scoring single and Mackin's sacrifice fly.
Up 6-0 in the 4
th, LCC added two more runs on a Swayer Stenson RBI single and a Baumgart RBI groundout.
The Devils added on in the 7
th with a Dillon RBI single and
Katelyn Swanson's two-run triple.
Mackin ended up with five hits in the doubleheader.
The Devils go to 26-8 overall and 15-3 in the South Region, good for second place alone.
LCC will host Centralia Saturday April 13
th in a 4 pm twi-light doubleheader at Heerensperger Field at Tam O'Shanter Park in Kelso.
