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Box Score 2 CALDWELL, Idaho – McKensie Stanton hit a two-run homer in the second inning helping the College of Idaho win Game 1, 2-0, but six sixth inning unearned runs helped Concordia University take Game 2, 9-6, in Cascade Conference softball action at Symms Field.
The win for the Cavaliers (18-12, 10-3 CCC) ended a five-game losing streak against C of I, salvaging the final game of the four-game season series.
Stanton, who was 4-for-7 in the doubleheader, crushed the first pitch she saw in the second inning of Game 1 over the left field wall for her fourth homer of 2014.
It was enough for Nickayla Skinner, who scattered five hits and struck out nine in her 26th career shutout win. The senior did not allow a runner to reach third base in the victory for the Coyotes (19-11, 11-7).
C of I took a 1-0 lead in second inning of Game 2 on a Hailey Chambers RBI double, but CU answered in the fourth. The Cavs loaded the bases with one out on a single, a walk, and a hit by pitch, with Mariah Jiminez clearing the bags with an opposite field three-run double.
The Yotes got a run back in the fifth on a Kaci Baldwin RBI ground out, but the Cavaliers took advantage of three C of I errors In the sixth to plate six. Katie Aden provided the big blow, a long three-run homer over the left-center field wall to make it 9-2.
The hosts responded in the bottom of the sixth, scoring four runs – including two on a pinch-hit two-run double by Skinner. However, McKenzie Marshall got Destiny Turner to ground out with the bases loaded to end the threat – and worked a 1-2-3 seventh to earn the complete game win.
Jiminez was 2-for-4 with four RBI in the win for the Cavs, with Stanton going 3-for-4 and Chambers 2-for-3 with two RBI for the Yotes.
C of I returns to action next weekend with home games against Southern Oregon and Oregon Tech.
