PORTLAND, Ore. – Erupting for their largest one-day offensive explosion of the season, the George Fox University Bruins closed out their 2011 campaign by scoring 25 runs on 30 hits to sweep the Lewis & Clark College Pioneers 9-2 and 16-10 in Northwest Conference softball action Sunday afternoon here at the Huston Sports Complex.

In the opener, the Bruins took a 2-0 lead in the top of the 3rd as Shelby Briske doubled in Nicole Renteria and Kris Trindle.  They added a run in the 5th when Bethany Chriss singled, advanced on a wild pitch, and scored on single by Kayla Ward, and another in the 6th on a Becka Doyle single and a run-scoring triple by Renteria.

The Pioneers picked up their two runs in the last of the 6th on a Jet'aime Mullins single and a Michaela Satter home run, but the Bruins salted the game away with five in the 7th.  Hilary Broadus and Felicia Chavez had run-scoring singles and Trindle a two-run single to highlight the rally.

The Bruins banged out 13 hits, three by Renteria and two each by Trindle, Doyle, and Chavez.  The Pios had nine hits, two each by Jamie Moon and Paige McFeeley.

Erin Hento (9-13) went all the way for the Bruins, striking out three and walking none.  McFeeley (2-14) took the loss for the Pioneers, allowing nine runs but only two earned as the home team committed three errors, with one strikeout and two walks.

The nightcap was a back-and-forth slugfest, the Bruins hammering out 17 hits and the Pios 16.  George Fox jumped in front in the top of the 1st on a bases-loaded walk to Kerrianne Davidson and a two-run single by Doyle, but Lewis & Clark answered with five runs in the home half.  Caroline DeVincenzi doubled in the first run, Caitlin Basilio scored on a wild pitch, Satter hit a two-run single, and Taylor Gatti singled in the final run.

The Bruins tied it in the 2nd on a single by Chavez and Chriss's fifth home run of the season to center, but the Pios went back in front in the bottom half on Basilio's homer to left-center.  Again the Bruins knotted it 6-6 in the 3rd as Doyle singled and eventually scored on an error at short.

The home team went ahead one last time in the 4th on a single and stolen base by DeVincenzi and an RBI single to center by Caitlin Relyea, but the Bruins exploded for seven in the 5th to take control, Doyle reaching on an error in center leading off that opened the floodgates.  Trindle doubled in two runs to give the Bruins an 8-7 lead, and Chriss followed with an RBI single.  Briske drew a bases-loaded walk, and Davidson capped the outburst with a bases-clearing double.

The Bruins added three more runs in the 7th on RBI singles by Doyle, Broadus, and Renteria, off-setting three in the bottom of the frame by the Pios, all unearned.  DeVincenzi had a two-run double and Relyea an RBI single before the game ended.

Ward and Doyle had three hits each for the Bruins, and Renteria, Chriss, Davidson, Broadus and Chavez had two apiece.  Doyle and Chriss each scored three runs and drove in three, while Davidson had four RBIs.  Moon, DeVincenzi, and Relyea had three hits each for the Pioneers, with Basilio collecting two safeties.  DeVincenzi scored three times and knocked in three.

Allyssa DenDekker (3-13) went all the way to get the win for George Fox, allowing only five earned runs while striking out one and walking two.  Natalie Rose (6-16) went 4.1 innings as the Lewis & Clark starter and took the loss, allowing 11 hits and 13 runs, 11 earned, with two strikeouts but six walks, before McFeeley finished up.

George Fox finished  with a 12-28 overall record under third-year coach Jessica Hollen and came in seventh in the conference at 6-22.  Lewis & Clark is done with an 8-31 overall mark, and finished eighth in the NWC at 2-26.