(Aberdeen, WA) -- The Lower Columbia College softball team won a pair of games on Monday April 21st. They did it while thinking of their friends from Umpqua.
Wearing UCC Strong ribbons, the Devils kept their season perfect with wins over Grays Harbor 10-0 and 10-2. The team will host a vigil in support of Umpqua, who lost head coach Jami Strinz and freshman Kiley Jones in a horrific traffic accident last Friday night. The vigil will be Tuesday April 22nd at 6:30 pm outside the Stoller Athletic Center on the LCC campus.
Game One- Lower Columbia 10 Grays Harbor 0 (5 innings)
The top of the LCC lineup was powerful. Leadoff hitter
Lexi Grumbois was 3 for 4 with a home run and four RBI's. Number two hitter
Brooklyn Loose was 3 for 3 with a homer and four RBI's.
Grumbois hit a three run shot in the second inning. Loose bombed a two-run homer in the 5th inning.
Hailey Brooks went 3 for 4.
Joelie Eder was 2 for 2 with an RBI.
Gabi Silveria was 2 for 3 with a run-scoring double.
The offense was in support of pitcher
Zoey Hughes who tossed a five-inning, complete game three-hitter. Hughes was in control the entire game. She struck out nine Chokers.
Game Two - Lower Columbia 10 Grays Harbor 2 (5 innings)
The Devils picked up right where they left off. They scored four runs in the top of the first as Brooks slapped an RBI single,
Shaz Ancheta had a bases-loaded walk and
Ava Eib plated two runs with a single.
Grumbois led off the second with an opposite field home run. Baumgart just missed a homer with an RBI double.
Eib pitched well for Lower Columbia. She gave up a solo homer in the second inning, but came right back in the top of the third to hit a solo homer herself. Eib was the star of the game for LCC. She pitched a three-hitter with nine strikeouts and at the plate was 2 for 3 with a homer and three RBI's.
Grumbois went 2 for 2 with a homer. Brooks was 3 for 3 with two doubles. Baumgart had a run scoring double along with a HBP and a sac bunt. Eder was 2 for 4 with two RBI's.
LCC is off to one of the great starts in school history at 31-0. They are chasing the 2002 Red Devil team that lost in the fourth game of the year only to rattle off 38 straight victories towards the championship. That 2002 team ended the season at 41-1.
Lower Columbia will return to action on Friday April 25th when they travel to Clark College for a 3 pm doubleheader. The next home action is Saturday April 26th when the Clackamas Cougars come to Kelso for a 12 pm DH. The 2000 and 2001 LCC championship teams will be honored with induction into the LCC Athletics Hall of Fame.
