Owls Take Double Header From UBC
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. – Tara Moates had 8 RBI as Oregon Tech improved to 7-1 in Cascade Conference play with a double header sweep of the University of British Columbia 11-0 and 5-0 Friday afternoon at the OIT Softball Complex.
The Owls pitching staff has now thrown 3 consecutive conference shut-outs for the first time since 2011. Oregon Tech improved to 12-11 on the season with UBC dropping to 4-11 overall and 4-4 in CCC play. Oregon Tech will host Northwest University Saturday while UBC travels to Ashland, Ore. to play Southern Oregon first pitch for both double headers is scheduled for 11:00 am.
Game 1
Tech’s Tara Moats had 3-hits and 4-RBI and Anne-Marie Guischer picked up her 6th win of the season as Oregon Tech shut-out the University of British Columbia 11-0. Tech had 12-hits in 5-inning Mercy Rule shortened game.
OIT scored 3-runs in the first inning, followed that with 4-runs in the 2nd inning, and put the Thunderbirds away with 3-runs runs in the 3rd and one more run in 4th on a Sadie Birch home run.
Guischer spread out 5-hits with 6-strikouts to improve to 6-4 on the year.
After Moates, Tech had four players pick up 2-hits each in the game including Katie Virtue, McKenzie Shrum, Birch, and Sydni Scott.
Game 2
Ali Graham pitched 7 shut-out innings allowing just 2-hits with 3-strikouts. The Hooter pounded out 12 more hits including home runs by Ali Graham (4), Moates (5), and Alyssa Davis (2).
Tech once again jumped out early, scoring 1-run in the 2nd inning, and then added 3-runs in the third on the Moates blast.
It stayed 4-0 until the bottom of the 6th when Davis led off the inning with a towering shot over the left field fence to put OIT up 5-0. The Owls would scratch across 2 more runs on an error and a pair of singles by Sydni Scott and McKenzie Shrum to take a 7-0 lead into the 7th. Graham retired the Thunderbirds in order to pick up her second consecutive win, both by shut-out, to improve to 4-6 on the year.
Shrum, Davis, Virtue and Cassidy Hoglund had 2-hits each to lead the Owls offensively.