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Loggers Split Pair With Bucs
TACOMA, Wash. - On a sunny Sunday afternoon, the Puget Sound Loggers split a Northwest Conference softball doubleheader with the Whitworth Pirates at Logger Softball Field in Tacoma, Wash. The Pirates won the first game 8-3 but the Loggers finished the series on a high note, winning 3-2 in extra innings.
In the first game, it was the Loggers who took the early lead after Hilary Rice (St. Paul, Minn./St. Paul Academy) singled in Kelsey Scanlan (La Center, Wash./Clark CC) in the second and then Rice scored on a single by Meghan Watson (Brier, Wash./Mountlake Terrace) as Puget Sound took the 2-0 lead. The Loggers made it 3-0 an inning later when Megan Janes (Littleton, Colo./Arapahoe) singled in Victoria Raeburn (Gladstone, Ore.).
Whitworth scored for the first time in the afternoon in the top of the fourth after Caty Lieske doubled to score Lacey Kerr. The Pirates took the lead with three runs in the top of the sixth and then put the icing on the cake with four runs in the top of the seventh. Auriel Sperberg (Spanaway, Wash./Graham-Kapowsin) took the loss, allowing four runs in seven hits in five innings pitched. Kelsey Ayers got the win for Whitworth, allowing three runs on seven hits in five and two-third innings pitched. Jessica Mangis collected the save, allowing just one hit in one and one-third innings of scoreless relief.
In game two, the Loggers struck first yet again when Scanlan singled to left field to score Anthea Aasen (University Place, Wash./Wilson) and then Caroline Moore (Seattle, Wash./Holy Names) singled in Janes for a 2-0 UPS lead. Whitworth evened it up in the top of the sixth with a pair of runs and neither team could score again before the end of the seventh.
In the eighth inning, the Logger defense held tough in the top of the inning and after Scanlan doubled to left field, Moore moved the pinch-runner Nikki LaFemina (Kennewick, Wash./Kamiakin) over to third on a sacrifice bunt. The winning run came on a sacrifice fly by Amelia Kurashige-Elliott (Berkeley, Calif.) to shallow right field that gave LaFemina just enough time to cover the distance to home for the score.
Sperberg got the win, allowing two runs on eight hits in eight innings pitched. Mangis took the loss, allowing three runs on 13 hits in seven and two-third innings pitched.
The Loggers will hit the road on Tuesday, traveling down to Forest Grove, Ore. for the first of two scheduled make-up games against the Pacific Boxers.
