SPOKANE, Wash.—Whitworth scored the final five runs in game one and the final three in game two, to earn a doubleheader sweep over Lewis & Clark College softball on Friday afternoon at Diana Marks Field. 
 
THE BASICS
Whitworth 10, Lewis & Clark 5
Whitworth 5, Lewis & Clark 4
(Lewis & Clark 16-12, Northwest Conference 8-10) 
(Whitworth 20-10, NWC 12-6) 

HOW IT HAPPENED
 
Lewis & Clark nearly dug themselves out of a 5-0 hole in game one and led 4-2 in game two, before a late Whitworth flurry extended the Pioneers losing streak to a season-high tying four games. 
 
Freshmen Madison Scroggins and Emily Patton led the Pioneers on the day. Scroggins left went 3-5 with one run, one hit by pitch and one stolen base. Patton chipped in with three hits in seven at-bats, a run scored, an RBI and a pair of doubles. 
 
GAME ONE RECAP 
 
After going down 5-0 in the first, Lewis & Clark scored four runs in the top of the second, only for Whitworth to score a single run in each of their final five at-bats in a 10-5 setback for the visitors. 
 
Freshman Emily Patton was the lone Pioneer with multiple hits. She went 2-4 with two doubles and an RBI. Freshman Tallulah Sickels added a double, a run and an RBI. 
 
In the circle, Lewis & Clark used three pitchers. Freshman Charlize Pope came on in relief in the first and pitched 4.2 innings and allowed 11 hits and four runs scored. Junior Cassidy Crusberg came on for the sixth inning and allowed one hit and one run. 
 
Whitworth took the lead for good in the first. They scored five runs on five hits, one error, one walk and one hit by pitch. After a leadoff home run, the Pirates added a run on a hit by pitch and two more on back-to-back singles. Whitworth made it 5-0 on a third single but freshman Lainey Honma delivered a perfect throw from center field to get a runner trying to score from second. 
 
Lewis & Clark responded with four runs of their own in the second. Scroggins opened the inning with a hit by pitch and raced all the way home on a Sickels RBI double to left-center. After a McKenna Zehnder single, the Pioneers made it 4-2 when Sickels came home on a Whitworth throwing error. With one out and runners on the corners, Patton doubled just inside the right-field line to plate Zehnder. Honma scored on the next play, when Mari Alvarez grounded out to the shortstop-but the Pirates turned it into a double play when the second runner tried to take third. 
 
Whitworth scored a single run with two outs in each of the next four innings to increase their lead to 9-4. The deficit could have been greater, but the Pioneers threw out a second runner at home plate in the third when Honma and Kalea Kaui connected on a relay throw to erase a runner trying to score from first. 
 
GAME TWO RECAP 
 
Lewis & Clark scored four runs in a row to grab a 4-2 lead but Whitworth answered with three runs between the fourth and the fifth to stretch their winning streak to six in a row. 
 
Junior Mari Alvarez and Scroggins were the lone Pioneers to finish with multiple hits. Alvarez went 2-4 with a double and an RBI. Scroggins chipped in two hits in three at-bats. 
 
Kaui went 1-2 with one run, two RBI and a homer. Sophomore Riley Anderson went 1-3 with one run, one RBI, one double and a pair of stolen bases. 
 
Freshman Maggie O'Leary earned the start and went 4.1 innings. She allowed six hits, five runs and four walks, while striking out two. Senior Alyssa Abe went the final 1.2 innings and gave up two hits. 
 
Whitworth grabbed a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first when Jazz Johnson delivered a two-out, two-run single. 
 
Kaui immediately responded in the second. With one out, she crushed her ninth career home run to make it 2-1. 
 
The Pioneers took their first lead of the day in the third. Patton opened the frame with a single and raced home on an Alvarez double to center that tied the game. Anderson followed with an RBI double to right-center that plated pinch-runner Pippi Jepsen. Junior Sam Gildersleeve followed with a single and Kaui made it 4-2 with a sacrifice fly on a liner to center. 
 
Whitworth cut the deficit to 4-3 with a two-out, bases-loaded infield single. 
 
The hosts grabbed the lead in the fifth. With one out and a runner on second, Johnson singled to right center to tie the game at 4-4. After a pitching change and a second out, Kennedy Robinson delivered an RBI single through the right side to give Whitworth a 5-4 lead. 
 
Lewis & Clark put a runner on in the sixth and seventh innings but couldn't find a way to tie the game. 
 
BY THE NUMBERS

• Patton posted her first collegiate multi extra-base hit game in game one. She now has five doubles this season which is tied for third on the team. 
• The Pioneers have now finished with single-digit hits in six-straight games (2-4 during that span). 
• With her RBI in game two, Anderson is now four RBI shy of tying the program record for runs batted in for a single-season (43). She is also just 12 total bases away from tying the single-season record (87). 
• Eight of Whitworth's 15 runs on the day came with two outs.  

WHO'S NEXT 
 
Lewis & Clark will look to split the series with Whitworth when they resume play on Saturday at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.