Box Score Game 1
Box Score Game 2

NEWBERG, Ore.  – A 13-run 1st inning in the first game and a seven-run 2nd inning in the second game highlighted a big offensive day for the Pacific University Boxers as they swept a Northwest Conference softball doubleheader from the George Fox University Bruins 20-2 and 15-3 Saturday afternoon here at Morse Field.

In the opener, the Boxers jumped on the Bruins with nine hits and four walks, along with a Bruin error that made all but three of the runs unearned, to score 13 runs in the initial frame.  Kristen Croxford started the scoring with a two-run double, Chelsey Chamberlain had a two-run single, and Ashley Billingsley, who had two hits in the inning, closed the outburst with a three-run home run, her sixth.  The Boxers added three more in the 2nd on a three-run homer by Chamberlain, her ninth, tacked on another three-spot in the 3rd, and got a solo home run in the 4th from Jessie Garcia, her third, to round out their scoring.

Chamberlain (5-3) worked three no-hit innings to pick up the win for Pacific, striking out four but also walking four.  Lauren Tuey tried to complete the no-hitter, but after getting the first two Bruins out in the 5th, hit Kerstyn Tsuruda with a pitch and surrendered the only hit of the game, Chelsea Bradely's sixth home run of the season.  The runs snapped a scoreless string of 35 innings for the Bruins.

Erin Lee (0-4), who both started and relieved, took the loss while working 3.1 innings, allowing 12 hits and 14 runs, although only four of the runs were earned.  Shelby Briske also pitched 1.2 innings. 

Chamberlain went 3-3 with three runs scored and five RBIs to lead a 16-hit attack by the Boxers.  Stephanie Vanoudenhaegen, Billingsley, Brooke Toy, Jenna Scribner, and Garcia had two hits each.  Vanoudenhaegen and Garcia scored three runs each, and Billingsley drove in three.

The Boxers continued to pour on the hits in the second game, collecting 14 safeties.  Toy had a two-run double in a three-run 1st, then the visitors exploded four seven in the 2nd, highlighted by a grand slam home run by Toy, her third of the season.  Billingsley had an RBI single in the 3rd, then Croxford singled for two runs and Billingsley doubled for a pair in the 4th.

George Fox picked up single runs in the 1st, 4th, and 5th innings.  Tsuruda singled and came around to score an unearned run in the 1st, Lee walked and scored an unearned run in the 4th, and Krystle Halvorsen was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the 5th to force in Bradely with yet another unearned tally.

Carrie Maerz, Chamberlain, and Toy had three hits each for Pacific, Chamberlain knocking in six runs while Maerz and Chamberlain scored three runs apiece.  Croxford and Billingsley had two hits also, Croxford scoring three and driving in four and Billingsley knocking in three.

Miranda McNealy (11-4) worked the first three innings for the win, allowing two hits and an unearned run with five strikeouts and two walks.  Tuey finished up with two innings on one-hit ball, allowing two unearned runs with two strikeouts and three walks.  Bradely (4-20) went the distance for the Bruins, striking out three but walking six.

George Fox (4-25, NWC 3-17) will try to end its 13-game losing streak at Lewis & Clark College Thursday in a twinbill starting at 2:30 p.m., making up a pair that was rained out on March 22.  Pacific (22-9, NWC 13-6) will host the University of Puget Sound Friday at 5:30 p.m. in another rained-out makeup.