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Softball win over Pacific
Natalie Connelly
The YellowJackets celebrated a sweep in the home opener Friday.
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Pacific (Ore.) PACIFIC 3-4
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Winner LeTourneau LETUSB 3-0
Pacific (Ore.) PACIFIC
3-4
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Final
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LeTourneau LETUSB
3-0
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E
Pacific (Ore.) PACIFIC 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 6 1
LeTourneau LETUSB 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 4 8 1

W: DeCock, Ashley (2-0) L: C. Datan (0-1)

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Pacific (Ore.) PACIFIC 3-5
11
Winner LeTourneau LETUSB 4-0
Pacific (Ore.) PACIFIC
3-5
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Final
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LeTourneau LETUSB
4-0
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 R H E
Pacific (Ore.) PACIFIC 0 0 2 0 0 2 4 2
LeTourneau LETUSB 6 3 2 0 X 11 5 4

W: Welch, Hannah (1-0) L: C. Datan (0-2)

Game Recap: Softball |

YellowJackets Sweep Pacific in Home Opener

LONGVIEW, Texas – LeTourneau University's softball team swept a doubleheader from Pacific (Ore.) in the home opener Friday. The YellowJackets beat the Boxers, 4-3, in eight innings in the first game before winning 11-2 in five innings in the second.

LETU (4-0) will host the defending NCAA Division III champions, Texas Lutheran, at 11 a.m. Saturday.

After Pacific (3-5) scored in the international tiebreaker eighth of the opener to take a 3-2 lead, the Jackets delivered in their half of the inning. Ethel Warren singled up the middle to score Hunter Handley to tie the game. Madelyn Tannery then looped a single to right, allowing Warren to race around for the gamewinning run.

Warren went 2-for-4. Ashley Crawford was 2-for-3 with a double.

Trailing 2-1 in the bottom of the seventh, Crawford ripped a one-out double to left center. Callie Poore followed with a pinch hit RBI double to center to tie the game.

Pacific scored one in the first and another in the fifth to take a 2-0 lead. The YellowJackets got one back in the sixth when Amber Fillbrandt scored on error in the sixth.

Madison Johnson joined Poore in collecting pinch hits. Taylor Nichols was 1-for-3.

Ashley DeCock picked up the win in relief. She went 3 2/3 innings, allowing an unearned run and a walk, while hitting two batters. Bailey Richey went the first 4 1/3 innings, giving up six hits and two runs, while hitting a batter and striking out three.

In Game 2, the Jackets pounded six runs on two hits and two errors in the first inning to take command. Hunter Handley hammered a three-run homer to right center to spot the YellowJackets a 6-0 lead. Warren started the fireworks with a one-out triple to right.

LeTourneau tacked on three more in the second when Katelyn Trombley belted a three-run blast. The Jackets added two more in the third on Kiley Banks' RBI single through the left side and Kennedi Dillow's RBI single up the middle.

Trombley was 1-for-3 with four RBI. Handley went 1-for-2 with three RBI and a stolen base. Dillow and Warren each went 1-for-1 with two walks and two runs scored. Banks was 1-for-3 with a stolen base. 

Hannah Welch picked up the win, allowing three hits and two runs, while fanning two.

LeTourneau had five hits in the nightcap.

 
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