PORTLAND, Ore. -- The Lewis & Clark Pioneers hit six more home runs on Friday to break the school record for team home runs, and in the process, earn a split with the Puget Sound Loggers.

The Pios hit three in each contest at Huston Sports Complex and brought their season total to 34, two more than they hit during the previous record-breaking season in 2019. Lewis & Clark still has six regular-season games remaining.

In the finale, Samantha Gildersleeve, Lily Moffitt and Olivia Brackin all went deep in a 9-3 win. In an 8-7 loss to open the series, Sydney Cross, Kalea Kaui and Gildersleeve hit one each. Gildersleeve leads the Pios with 12 home runs, which sets a new individual home run record, while Cross has 10 on the season. In 2019, Brackin matched the school record of 10 set in 2013 by Hannah Dal Pra. 

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Key Moments | Game 2

Lewis & Clark (13-11, 9-9 NWC) busted the game open with a five-run fourth inning that featured Moffitt's two-run home run at the end. Puget Sound (9-17, 9-13 NWC) committed two of its three errors in the inning and had several wild pitches, miscues that allowed three more Pios runs to score. The sequence flipped the game from a 2-2 tie to a five-run Pios edge.

Gildersleeve finished 2 for 4 with two RBI and two runs scored, the only Pios hitter with multiple hits off Loggers pitching. Six other Pioneers had hits including pinch hitter Kylie Hill who had a sixth-inning single. Moffitt and Brackin had two RBI apiece.

Jane Wilson threw six innings and allowed three runs on nine hits and struck out three. Alyssa Abe pitched the final inning in a non-save situation. 

Key Moments | Game 1

All of the scoring came in the first four innings and featured a combined eight runs in the fourth. One run in the second inning, an RBI single by the Loggers, proved to be the difference. 

Cross' RBI double in the first, and Gildersleeve homered in the third to twice narrow the gap to one. Cross finished with three RBI.

After the Pios fell behind 8-3, Kaui and Cross homered in between a sacrifice fly by Braylin Jenson in the fourth. Kami Merrill singled and Mari Alvarez doubled in the fourth as well. 

Abe gave up her most runs since a 9-2 loss to George Fox on Mar. 21. Still, the Pioneers were in a position to win the game. Abe hadn't given up more more than four runs during that stretch.

Looking Ahead

Lewis & Clark wraps up the series on Saturday.