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Mari Alvarez Swinging
Steve Gibbons
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Lewis & Clark LEWIS & 17-14
6
Winner Pacific Lutheran PACIFIC 22-13
Lewis & Clark LEWIS &
17-14
1
Final
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Pacific Lutheran PACIFIC
22-13
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Lewis & Clark LEWIS & 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0
Pacific Lutheran PACIFIC 0 0 0 2 1 3 X 6 11 0

W: C. Conrad (11-5) L: Sickels, Tallulah (4-4)

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Lewis & Clark LEWIS & 17-15
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Winner Pacific Lutheran PACIFIC 23-13
Lewis & Clark LEWIS &
17-15
2
Final
3
Pacific Lutheran PACIFIC
23-13
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E
Lewis & Clark LEWIS & 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 5 0
Pacific Lutheran PACIFIC 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 7 1

W: A. Smith (4-1) L: Abe, Alyssa (4-3)

Game Recap: Softball | | Seth Orensky

PLU Uses Late Scoring Surges To Sweep Softball

Mari Alvarez hit a pair of doubles in game two

TACOMA, Wash.—Host Pacific Lutheran University used late scoring surges in both ends of Wednesday's doubleheader to defeat Lewis & Clark College softball 6-1 and 3-2 at PLU Field. 
 
THE BASICS
Pacific Lutheran 6, Lewis & Clark 1
Pacific Lutheran 3, Lewis & Clark 2 (8th Inning)
(Lewis & Clark 17-14, Northwest Conference 9-13) 
(Pacific Lutheran 23-13, NWC 15-9) 

HOW IT HAPPENED
 
The Lutes scored the final six runs in game one and final three in game two to earn a series split with the Pioneers. With the two losses, Lewis & Clark's path to reach the four-team Northwest Conference Tournament becomes tougher but they still have a chance heading into the final six games of the season. 
 
Junior Mari Alvarez and senior Kalea Kaui each finished with two hits and a walk to lead the Pioneers offensively.
 
GAME ONE RECAP 
 
Lewis & Clark took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first but Pacific Lutheran scored in each of their final three at-bats to claim a 6-1 victory. 
 
Kaui recorded two of the Pioneers three hits in game (2-3). Freshman Emily Patton added a single and freshman Tallulah Sickels, sophomore Riley Anderson and Alvarez each worked a walk. 
 
In the circle, Sickels held the hosts in check for the first three innings. She finished the game allowing five hits and three earned runs in 4.1 innings. 
 
Lewis & Clark got to Lutes ace Cassidy Conrad in the first. Alvarez worked a leadoff walk, Kaui singled with one out and Anderson walked to load the bases. With two outs, Sickels worked a bases-loaded walk to give the Pioneers a 1-0 advantage. 
 
Pacific Lutheran would put runners on in each of the first three innings but Sickels was able to induce eight groundouts to keep the Lutes off the scoreboard. 
 
The hosts grabbed the lead in the fourth. After a leadoff hit by pitch, Paola Garcia hit a home run just over the center field fence to make it 2-1 PLU. 
 
PLU tacked on one more run in the fifth and three in the sixth to extend their lead to 6-1. 
 
GAME TWO RECAP 

The Pioneers jumped off to another early lead and freshman Maggie O'Leary kept the hosts in check until the seventh, before the hosts used a pair of late home runs to earn the sweep. 
 
O'Leary was terrific in the circle. She scattered just four hits two walks and no runs through the first six innings. 
 
Alvarez led the offense with two doubles and one run. Patton added an RBI single and Kaui finished with a walk and an RBI. Katie Ingersoll and Madison Scroggins each added a single. 
 
Alvarez led off game two with a double just over the glove of the right fielder. Patton followed with a single to center to give the Pios a 1-0 advantage. 
 
Lewis & Clark had a chance to extend their lead in the fourth. Scroggins led off with a bunt single and Ingersoll followed with a bunt single to put two on with no outs. Senior Lindsey Flegel advanced both runners with a sac bunt but Pacific Lutheran threw out the lead runner on a fielder's choice and then struck out the next batter to keep it 1-0. 
 
Alvarez helped Lewis & Clark push the lead to 2-0 in the fifth. She opened the inning with another double. Her pinch runner, Lola Jarrette, took third on a sac bunt and then scored on a crazy play. Jarrette was caught in a pickle between third base and home on a Kaui grounder, but she kept the run down going long enough for the Lutes to throw the ball away and allow her to score. 
 
While the Pioneers were building their lead, O'Leary was keeping the Lutes at bay. She stranded a single runner in five of the first six innings-including working around a one-out double in the second. 
 
Pacific Lutheran finally broke through in the seventh. Emma Ware led off the frame with a pinch-hit single and Garcia hit her second two-run homer of the game to tie the score at 2-2. After a one-out walk, senior Alyssa Abe came on in relief. Abe retired the first two batters she faced to send the game to extras. 
 
The Lutes won the game in the bottom of the eighth. Abe retired the first two batters she faced in the eighth, before Kennedy Kila hit a home run just over the right-field fence to give the hosts a walk-off win. 
 
BY THE NUMBERS
  • With her two doubles in game two, Alvarez now has a team-leading 10 on the season. She is the eighth player to hit double-digit doubles in a single-season. She is currently tied for fifth in program history and is two doubles (12) shy of tying the program record. 
  • With their 10 total bases on Wednesday, softball moved into fifth place in program history for total bases in a single season (370). 
  • O'Leary has now allowed three earned runs or fewer in three of her last four starts. 
  • Pacific Lutheran held the Pioneers to just eight hits (six singles) on Wednesday. 
  • The Pioneers currently sit in fifth in the NWC Standings with a 9-13 record. They trail fourth-place Whitworth by four games in the loss column (13-9). Both teams have six games remaining. 
WHO'S NEXT 
 
Lewis & Clark will host George Fox University in the final two games of their NWC series. The games are scheduled for 2 and 4 p.m. 
 
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