NEWBERG, Ore. – Auriel Sperberg got a save in the first game and a win in the second and the University of Puget Sound offense hammered out double-digit hits in both games, leading the visiting Loggers to a Northwest Conference softball sweep of the George Fox University Bruins, 5-3 and 5-1, Sunday afternoon here at Morse Field.

In the opener, the bottom third of the Puget Sound batting order - Elayna Van Hess, Joleen Monfiletto, and Brianna Huber - combined to go 6-for-8, each getting two hits, scoring all five Logger runs, and driving in three.

UPS got on the board in the second as Van Hess singled with two out and Monfiletto clubbed her fourth home run of the season to left.  George Fox got one back in the third when Kerrianne Davidson was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded, forcing in Kris Trindle.

The Loggers added three insurance runs in the top of the sixth.  With two out, Van Hess singled, Monfiletto walked, and Huber doubled to left for one run.  Megan Janes, who went 4-for-4, followed with a two-run double to right. 

In the home half of the sixth, Felicia Chavez led off with a single, knocking UPS starter Jennifer Davis (3-5) out of the game. Aryn Grause got the next two out, but Nicole Renteria singled and Trindle walked to load the bases.  Bethany Chriss lined a two-run single to center to make it 5-3, and Briske was hit by a pitch, again filling the bases.

Sperberg replaced Grause at that point and got Davidson to pop to short, preserving the lead.  She then notched her first save with a 1-2-3 seventh, preserving the win for Davis, who struck out seven and walked two whiles scattering six hits in her five-plus innings of work.

Allyssa DenDekker (2-11) took the loss for the Bruins, going the distance while allowing 12 hits with two strikeouts and one walk. 

Christina Demuelenaere also had two hits for the Loggers, while Renteria and Chavez had two hits apiece out of the Bruins' total of eight.

In the nightcap, Sperberg (6-9) went the distance, allowing five hits, three of them to Renteria, who was 3-for-3, with four strikeouts and no walks.  The only run she surrendered was a solo home run by Davidson, her first of the season, with one out in the seventh. 

By then the Loggers had piled up 10 more hits, Demuelenaere going 3-for-4 and Grause and Alex Usher getting two hits apiece.  Grause scored the Loggers' first run in the second inning when she led off with a single and eventually came in from third on a two-out Bruin error.

The Loggers added two more in the fifth as Grause and Usher had back-to-back run-scoring singles, and their final two in the seventh on a RBI ground out by Grause and another run-producing single by Usher.

Erin Hento (7-12) suffered the setback for the Bruins, allowing only three earned runs in seven innings with two strikeouts and two walks.

NEXT: George Fox (9-25, NWC 3-19) goes to Pacific University in Forest Grove, Ore., Wednesday to make up two games that were postponed from March 27.  The NWC doubleheader will begin at 5:00 p.m.   The Bruins will be out to snap a seven-game losing streak. ... Puget Sound (11-22, NWC 9-14) will go to league leader and No. 1-ranked Linfield College Tuesday to play one game at 4:00 p.m., completing their four-game series that saw the final game rained out on Apr. 1.