Box Score Game 1

Box Score Game 2

TACOMA, Wash. – Held scoreless over 20 consecutive innings and three shutout losses, the George Fox University Bruins broke loose for 26 hits, 20 runs, and four home runs to take a Northwest Conference softball doubleheader from the University of Puget Sound Loggers 10-2 and 10-8 Sunday afternoon here at the UPS field.

A late morning snow shower caused a 93-minute delay before a single pitch was even thrown, but once the games got going, the Bruins struck early and often.   In the top of the 2nd in the opener, Becka Doyle drilled the Bruins' first home run of the season for a 1-0 lead.  They added three more in the 3rd, Doyle singling in Kristen Griffith and Erin Lee singling up the middle to score Chelsea Bradely and Kerstyn Tsuruda.  Bradely hit her first home run of the season in the 4th after a Shelby Briske single

The Loggers got two in the 5th as Meghan Watson singled in Carolyn Moore and Victoria Raeburn singled in Hilary Rice, but the Bruins pounded in the final dagger in the top of the 6th on a RBI double by Briske, followed by a three-run home run by Bradely. 

Bradely (2-6) collected the win for George Fox, allowing just two runs on seven hits with eight strikeouts and one walk.  Auriel Sperberg took the loss for Puget Sound, allowing 10 runs on 11 hits in six innings with four strikeouts and five walks.

Briske, Bradely, Doyle and Lee all had two hits for the Bruins, who had 11 in all.  Bradely drove in five with her two home runs and scored three times.  Rice and Alex Usher had two hits apiece for the Loggers.

In game two, the Bruins continued what they started in game one, putting up six runs in the opening frame to take the early lead.  Amy Peterson and Griffith singled to start the game and Briske walked to load the bases, but Bradely unloaded the with a grand slam home run to center field.  Peterson and Griffith added RBI singles later in the inning as the Bruins sent 12 batters to the plate.

The Loggers were able to get a run across in the bottom of the inning after Aryn Grause singled in Rice, but the Bruins got it back in the 2nd when Lee doubled in Tsuruda, who had reached on a single.  The Loggers climbed back into the game in the 4th as Raeburn, Kelsey Scanlan, and Alex Usher each picked up RBIs to get UPS back within three at 7-4. 

Two more runs in the 5th on an RBI single by Grause and a run-scoring double by Raeburn brought the Loggers within a run at 7-6, but the Bruins scored three big insurance runs in the 7th, one run scoring on a fielder's choice grounder by Tsuruda and the other two on a double by Lee.

Grause scored on an illegal pitch and Raeburn scored on an RBI single by Scanlan in the last of the 7th, but Bradely, who had worked the first four innings and was in line for the win, who had worked the first four innings and was in line for the win, came back in to replace her replacement, Lee, and got the final three outs.

Andi Doerflinger started and took the loss for the Loggers, allowing six runs on seven hits in one inning pitched.

Griffith went 4-5 as the Bruins pounded out 15 hits, while Peterson and Tsuruda had three hits each and Audrey Dove had two.  Bradely, after her third homer of the day in the 1st inning, drew four walks, three of them intentional - once to lead off the 2nd, and twice with a runner on first base in the 3rd and 5th.

The Loggers piled up 20 hits off Bradely and Lee, but left 16 runners on base.  Anthea Aasen was 4-5,Rice, Grause, Raeburn, and Nikki LaFemina had three hits apiece, and Scanlan had two hits. 

George Fox (3-6, NWC 2-2) plays a non-conference doubleheader Wednesday at Northwest Christian University at 3:00 p.m.  Puget Sound (5-6, NWC 2-2) visits Pacific University Saturday for a conference twinbill at 12:00 noon.