The wins just keep coming.
 
Playing their final home games of the season on Tuesday, the Red Devils swept Mt. Hood 13-2 and 10-1 to keep the season perfect at 41-0. Lower Columbia will shoot to complete an undefeated regular season with a pair of games at Centralia on Friday, beginning at 3:00 pm.
 
Cerenity Fake and Ava Eib were in control in the pitching circle for the Devils, both throwing complete games and allowing just one earned run between them. Brooklyn Loose and Savannah Hawkins both homered twice on the day, one in each game.
 
Lower Columbia will find out its draw on Monday for the 16-team, double-elimination NWAC Championship tournament, which begins on May 15 at Delta Park in Portland. A champion will be crowned on May 18.
 
Tuesday's game recap:
 
Game 1: Lower Columbia 13, Mt. Hood 2 (five innings) – Allison Baumgart and Hawkins got things rolling in the first inning with back-to-back RBI doubles. That staked LCC to an early 3-0 lead.
 
The Saints took advantage of a Red Devil error and overthrow to plate their runs in the third inning and climb within 3-2. But LCC answered quickly.
 
Hailey Brooks hit her 17^th home run of the season, a solo shot in the third, then Lexi Grumbois lined an RBI single in the fourth, for a 5-2 Red Devil lead.
 
With Fake working on a gem, LCC erupted for eight runs in the fifth to end the game. Baumgart stroked another RBI double and Hawkins hit a three-run home run, before Loose ended it with a grand slam mercy rule walk off.
 
Joelie Eder, Baumgart and Hawkins each had two hits. Multiple RBIs were posted by Hawkins (5), Loose (4) and Baumgart (2).
 
Fake allowed no earned runs and three hits, while walking one and striking out three Saints. Her season record is 10-0, with the fourth best earned run average in the NWAC at 2.20.
 
Game 2: Lower Columbia 10, Mt. Hood 1 (five innings) – The Saints took a 1-0 first inning lead with a triple and wild pitch. Another single followed, which turned out to be the last hit of the game for Mt. Hood as Eib turned into an unhittable, strike-throwing machine.
 
Lower Columbia took the lead with a five-run second inning. Hawkins hit a solo shot, followed by RBI singles from Kaydence Mackin and Grumbois. Loose capped the barrage with a two-run bomb that banged off the cell tower control building roof in right field.
 
Mackin, who was 3-3, picked up her second and third RBIs on a sharp single in the third inning.
 
Leading 7-1 in the bottom of the fifth, Gabi Silveria hit her 10^th longball of the season, a three-run oppo shot to right center to end the game on the mercy rule.


Eib threw 63 pitches, 49 for strikes. She retired the last 11 Saints to come to the plate, while walking none and fanning six. That runs her record to 10-0 with the NWAC's second best ERA of 1.91.
 
Eib trails only teammate Zoey Hughes in ERA. Hughes' ERA is 1.65. She did not pitch on Tuesday. Neither did Jadyn Terry, who is 8-0 with the sixth best NWAC ERA of 3.39.
 
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