SALEM, Ore. – Despite
Destiny Turner recording her 60th career multi-hit game with a four-hit effort in Game 2, the College of Idaho dropped both ends of a Cascade Conference doubleheader at No. 18 Corban this afternoon at Warrior Field.
The Warriors (32-6, 17-3 CCC) ran their win streak to 12 games with 11-0 and 7-6 victories, recording 11 hits each game of the twinbill.
Turner saw her 14-game hit streak snapped in the opener for the Lady Yotes (15-18, 11-9), but recorded her first career four-hit game in the nightcap to improve her league-leading batting average to .525.
Kristin Paulazzo added two hits in both games for C of I.
Sabrina Boyd tossed a six-hit shutout in Game 1 for Corban, working around six singles and not allowing a C of I runner to reach third base in the victory. Sam Woodley had an RBI single in a two-run first inning for the Warriors, with Iris Rodriguez adding a two-run single in the third to double the lead. The hosts won the game with six runs in the fifth – including a walk-off grand slam by Jessie Isham.
The Yotes jumped to a 4-0 lead in the first inning of Game 2, getting a
Katelyn Geyer RBI ground out, a two-run single from
Delaney Atkins and a run-scoring hit from
Martha Tooley. The margin would not last, as the Warriors scored five times in the third, including two-run singles from Sam Woodley and Chaleigh Kirkwood.
Trailing 6-4 in the fifth, the Yotes pulled even – getting Turner's fifth home run of the year and an RBI single from Paulazzo – but the go-ahead runner was thrown out trying to score from second to end the inning. Corban would regain the lead in the bottom of the frame on an Aubrene Blas RBI ground out, with Boyd coming out of the pen to pick up a save.
Courtney Ellis had two hits in Game 1 for the Yotes, with both Atkins and Tooley adding multi-hit games in the late contest. Maddy Melton had a combined six hits in the doubleheader for the Warriors.
The two teams close out the series tomorrow with an 11 a.m. (PT) doubleheader.
