Mendiola Will be Featured Guest on Northwest Sports Tonight
PORTLAND, Ore. – College of Idaho softball head coach Al Mendiola, will be the featured guest on the Cascade Collegiate Conference segment on KPAM radio’s "Northwest Sports Tonight with Ron Callan,” Monday.
The Yotes (13-3) have won seven straight games, including their weekend sweep over nationally-ranked Dickinson State. College of Idaho was named the Verizon Cascade Conference Team of the Week Sunday. C of I won all four meetings with DSU, which is two spots out the national top 25, in Caldwell this weekend. College of Idaho outscored the Skyhawks, 40-12, over the weekend.
Saturday, Alexis Macias tossed a complete-game three-hitter in the opener, while combining to drive in seven runs on the afternoon, as The College of Idaho swept a doubleheader from Dickinson State, 11-2 and 10-6, at Symms Field. The Lady Yotes battled a stiff breeze and a hailstorm to complete the sweep.
Macias roped a go-ahead RBI single in the sixth inning of Game 1, and then pitched a three-hit shutout in Game 2, as the Yotes completed a four-game sweep of Dickinson State, winning 7-4 and 11-0, Sunday. Game 2 was all C of I, as the Yotes sent 13 batters to the plate in the first - scoring eight runs. Molly Mills and Hannah Johnson each had two-run singles in the frame. Nikki Shumway capped the scoring with an opposite field three-run homer in the fourth.
The segment will air at 8:15 p.m. Pacific Time. For those outside KPAM 860 AM's listening area, the show is streamed live online at www.kpam.com.