Adidas Team of the Week Announced
LA GRANDE, Ore. –The Southern Oregon University softball team has been named the “Adidas Team of the Week” for February 15-21, the Cascade Collegiate Conference announced.
The Raiders went 5-1 competing in the NAIA Southern California Classic which included wins over two top 20 ranked teams.
The excitement started in the first game on Friday when SOU used their first two home runs of the season to earn a signature, 3-2 win over No.18 Vanguard University. They followed that performance up taking down No. 20, and tournament host, Biola University with an identical 3-2 score. The victory over Biola came in the 8
th frame using the international tiebreaker rule which places each team with a runner on 2
nd base. Kayleen Smith sacrificed Alexa Gonzalez to third base, and Taylor Martinez drove her in with a groundout to second for the win.
Saturday came and went with victories over Hope International 12-3 and San Diego Christian 5-1. Embry-Riddle (AZ.) thwarted the Raiders run at a perfect weekend by upending SOU 4-3 in the early Sunday game. SOU would bounce back with a win over La Sierra 4-3 on an Alexa Gonzalez’s eighth-inning single that drove in Kelsey Randall for the walk-off winner.
Randall extended her hitting streak to 10 games.
SOU (11-5, 0-0 CCC) will return to action February 26-27 on the road against NCAA II Saint Martin’s University and Concordia University.