With back-to-back doubleheader sweeps over Grays Harbor and Yakima Valley, Lower Columbia has won 18 straight games and now stands 23-2 for the season. The Devils are 12-0 in NWAC South Region play and hold a one-game advantage over Mt. Hood for first place.
 
The Saints are next up on the schedule, as they travel to Kelso for a doubleheader at 3:00 p.m. on Friday. In the latest NWAC Softball Coaches Poll Mt. Hood is ranked first and Lower Columbia is second.
 
 
GAME RECAP – FRIDAY, MARCH 27 (HOME)
 
Game one: Lower Columbia 16, Grays Harbor 1 (five innings) – Ava Eib and Avery Garvey combined on the mercy rule win in the circle, fanning nine Chokers and walking just two.
 
Gabi Silveria, Alisyn Parkin and Danika Hallom led a 16-hit attack, each with three hits. Silveria doubled twice and Parkin belted a triple and double. Zoey Hughes doubled and had three RBI. Rylee Brown, Jaime Haase, Parkin, Silveria and Garvey each plated two runs.
 
Game two: Lower Columbia 22, Grays Harbor 1 (five innings) – Cerenity Fake allowed just one run over four innings to earn her second win of the season. Hughes threw the final inning in relief.
 
The Red Devils continued the DH hit fest with 21 safeties in game two, including six doubles and a Kendall Humphrey home run into a stiff wind. Humphrey had four RBI and was one of four Red Devils with three hits – along with Silveria, Parkin (4 RBI) and Fake.
 
Shaz Ancheta added two hits in her first action since sustaining a knee injury on March 1. Elysa Nash, Megan Dille, Silveria, Hallom, Humphrey and Parkin had doubles.
 
GAME RECAP – MONDAY, MAY 30 (YAKIMA)
 
Game one: Lower Columbia 11, Yakima Valley 1 (five innings) – LCC made the early morning trip through White Pass but got off the bus ready to roll with their hitting shoes on again. The Devils had 11 hits in the mercy-rule shortened game and scored in every inning.
 
Silveria blasted a pair of long balls, the second clearing the soccer field fence 50-feet beyond the softball field fence in right-center. The Woodland sophomore had three hits and four RBI.
 
Parkin got the offense going in the first inning with a three-run HR. Nash had a double, single and an RBI with a large group of her nearby hometown Kittitas family and friends on hand. Dani Ambriz drove in two runs, Hallom tripled and Garvey doubled.
 
Zoey Hughes earned her 10^th win in the circle, going the distance with 10 Ks and allowing just three Yak hits.
 
Game two: Lower Columbia 20, Yakima Valley 7 (six innings) – Up 2-0 in the third inning, LCC saw the Yaks string together six singles and a double to fall behind 6-2.
 
No panic, as LCC took advantage of five fourth inning walks, Silveria's three-run home run (13^th of the season), a Seyah Lindersmith two-run single, Humphrey's RBI single, Haase's sac fly and two wild pitches to score nine runs and go back ahead 11-6.
 
Lower Columbia struck for nine runs again in the sixth inning on eight hits – including Fake's two-RBI single, two hits each from Lindersmith and Humphrey and a pair of RBIs from Dille.
 
Eib was the winning pitcher, earning her 10^th win with relief help in the final inning from Fake.
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