GEORGETOWN, Texas—Host Southwestern University (Texas) scored three runs in the bottom of the fourth of both games to take control and held off a pair of late challenges from Lewis & Clark College softball on Thursday afternoon at Taylor-Sanders Field. 

THE BASICS
Southwestern 7, Lewis & Clark 4
Southwestern 3, Lewis & Clark 2
(Lewis & Clark 1-3) 
(Southwestern 2-10) 
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
 
Sophomore Gina Ozuna hit her first collegiate home run in game one and Ozuna and sophomore Madison Scroggins each posted multiple hit games to lead the Pioneers in their first of three doubleheaders in Texas. 
 
In game two, sophomore Charlize Pope threw her first complete game of the season and allowed just four hits and three runs over six innings. 
 
GAME ONE RECAP
 
Thursday's opener began as a pitching duel with neither team managing anything offensively through the first two innings. Southwestern scored four unearned runs in the bottom of the third and added three more in the fourth inning to earn a win in the opener. 
 
Ozuna put together the best game of her collegiate career to this point. She belted her first collegiate homer and notched her first multi-hit game. The second baseman went 2-3 with a run scored, two RBI and a hit by pitch and a stolen base. 
 
Fellow sophomore Emily Patton added the Pioneers other hit in the contest. Sophomores McKenna Zehnder and Scroggins each added RBI and freshmen Makena Dahir scored a run. 
 
In the circle, sophomore Maggie O'Leary started and pitched the first three innings. She struck out six and allowed three walks, two hits and four unearned runs. 
 
Freshman Sofia Garcia came on in the fourth and retired the first batter before running into trouble. Fellow freshman Ryan Jurischk made her collegiate debut in the fourth. She allowed three hits and one walk over 2.2 scoreless innings. Jurischk also recorded two strikeouts. 
 
The Pirates struck for four runs in the third to take the lead. With one out, Erica Otto reached on a bunt single and stole second. She scored after an error on the infield allowed the ball to reach the outfield grass and the batter took second on the throw home. With two on and two outs, Brooke Yanta hit a 3-run homer to make it 4-0. 
 
Lewis & Clark responded immediately. Ozuna led off the inning with a homer to right-center field to make it 4-1. Patton followed with a single and moved to third when an outfielder couldn't handle a Harper Campanella fly ball. With one out, Scroggins drove in Patton with an RBI grounder to second base. 
 
Southwestern would have a response of their own. With the bases loaded and one out, back-to-back runners reached on RBI walks and Victoria Jackson-Sears added an RBI single to make it 7-2. After allowing the first two batters she faced to reach, Jurischk induced a popup to short and posted a strikeout to leave the bases loaded. 
 
The Pioneers attempted to come all the way back in the next two innings. In the fifth, Dahir led off with a pinch-hit walk and took second on an Alyssa Hoeke sac bunt. Ozuna made it a 7-3 game when she ripped a single to left-center to score Dahir. Ozuna stole second to put herself in scoring position but Southwestern pitcher Sophia Ytuarte got out of the inning with a ground out. 
 
Lewis & Clark added a run in a third-straight inning in the sixth. Each of the first two batters reached on errors to bring the tying run into the on-deck circle. Scroggins moved both runners up with a ground out on the right side. Zehnder made it a 7-4 game with a sac fly to left but Ytuarte again came up with a key ground ball to end the frame. 
 
GAME TWO RECAP 
 
Southwestern scored three runs in the bottom of the fourth and held off Lewis & Clark's rally in the top of the seventh to secure the sweep. 
 
Scroggins went 2-4 to lead Lewis & Clark offensively. Campanella added a single, an RBI and a walk and sophomore Katie Ingersoll added a stolen base and a run scored. 
 
Pope struck out three over six innings. The sophomore allowed four singles and one walk in her second start of the year. 
 
After Pope held the Pirates hitless through the first three innings, Southwestern struck for three runs in the bottom of the fourth. The first two batters of the inning reached on a single and a walk and moved up 60 feet on a ground out back to the circle. The hosts made it 1-0 on a sacrifice fly and added runs on back-to-back, two-out RBI singles. 
 
The Pioneers put runners on in each of the first five innings but couldn't scratch across a run. They broke through in the top of the seventh. 
 
With one out, senior Sam Gildersleeve pinch hit and singled to right center. Ingersoll pinch ran for Gildersleeve and stole second with two outs. Patton extended the game and put the Pioneers on the board with an RBI single to right field. Campanella followed with a single to right. Patton raced all the way to third on the hit and scampered home when the throw to second to try to get Campanella went into right field. Mari Alvarez continued the frame with a hit by pitch and Dahir reached on an error to load the bases. After going down 0-2, Scroggins laced a liner to left-center, but the Pirates center field tracked it down to deny the Pioneers the go-ahead runs. 
 
BY THE NUMBERS

• Sophomore Cami Restagno posted her first collegiate hit in game two: a double to left field. 
• Thursday's game was Lewis & Clark's first-ever game against Southwestern and their first-ever games played in the state of Texas. 
• Ozuna and Patton have both hit safely in all four games this season. 
• Alvarez made her 100^th collegiate start in game two on Thursday. 
• O'Leary has struck out five or more batters in both of her starts this year. 

WHO'S NEXT 
 
Lewis & Clark will travel to Kerrville, Texas on Saturday to take on Schreiner University on Saturday. The doubleheader will be played at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Central (9/11 a.m. Pacific).