Cavs, Raiders close out regular season with split
HAPPY VALLEY, Ore.—Celebrating Senior Day while battling rain throughout, No. 15-ranked Concordia split with Southern Oregon in a CCC doubleheader played at Hood View Park on Friday.
Winning 7-5, Southern Oregon (32-24, 13-15 CCC) scored seven unanswered runs to erase a 5-0 deficit in the opener to spoil Concordia's (40-14, 21-7 CCC) opportunity to finish the regular season tied for first in the CCC standings.
The Cavaliers responded with a 6-0 win in the nightcap. Both teams will continue on to the postseason with Concordia earning the No. 2 seed in the CCC and SOU the No. 4 seed in the three-day event that will be hosted by regular-season champion Oregon Tech from May 1-3.
Game 1: Southern Oregon 7, Concordia 5
Concordia scored the game's first five runs before SOU stunned the home team with even runs across the plate in the final two frames.
SOU's Alexa Gonzales started the comeback with a 3-run home run to left center in the sixth and returned with a 2-run single in the seventh as part of a five RBI day.
Concordia placed the tying run on base in the seventh before Raider pitcher Brianne Craig escaped the jam to improve to 14-7 on the season.
Lucy Baldovino took the loss for the Cavs, falling to 22-4 on the year.
Game 2: Concordia 6, Southern Oregon 0
The Cavaliers once again jumped out to a five-run lead, this time with a
Mariah Jimenez grand slam in the first, but managed the spout as
Mattie Boucher tossed a complete game shutout in her first outing in nearly a month.
Boucher allowed just three hits while striking out five to move to 14-4 on the year.
Destinee Chang went 2 for 3 at the plate and drove in two runs, CU's first and final runs of the game.