Box Score Great Falls, MT - The Simon Fraser University softball team played their last two games before the Great Northwest Athletic Conference playoffs with a pair of 11-3 victories over the University of Great Falls Argonauts in non-conference play on
Monday.
"It was a good tune up for the conference championship," said Head Coach
Mike Renney. "It was a great opportunity for us to get some live pitching for our hitters but also to get some of our non-starters some work. I was pleased we got to play the bench and get two good results."
Kelsie Hawkins (Victoria, BC) started game one for the Clan and went three innings, allowing three runs on five hits with three strikeouts.
After the third inning with a 5-3 lead, she gave way to
Cara Lukawesky (Coquitlam, BC) who came on in relief, pitching the final three innings, allowing four hits and no runs.
The Clan bats exploded for 13 hits in game one.
Carly Lepoutre (Pickering, ON) went two for three in the game with two runs batted in and three runs scored while
Kaitlyn Cameron (Langley, BC) and
Danielle Raison (Langley, BC) each went two for two.
Cameron scored two runs and drove in one while Raison drove in two and scored one.
Rachel Proctor (Surrey, BC) went two for four in the game with two RBI's and a run scored for the Clan while
Nicole Ratel (Langley, BC), who ended the first game on
Saturday against Montana State University Billings with a walk off grand slam, had the only home run of the game.
The Clan had a 3-0 lead after the first inning. SFU would score two more in the third while UGF scored two in the second and one in the third. The run in the third was the last of the offence for UGF in the game, as SFU took the mercy shortened affair, 11-3 in six innings.
Lukawesky started in game two, throwing an inning and a third, allowing one run on two hits and striking out three.
She was relieved by
Mackenzie Bender (St. Albert, AB) who pitched four and two thirds innings, allowing seven hits and two runs while also striking out three.
Raison went three for three in the game with two runs scored and four RBI's, a walk and a home run.
Lepoutre went two for three in game two, scoring three runs and
Stephanie Caron (Delta, BC) scored twice, going one for three at the plate.
The Clan jumped out to an early lead, scoring five runs in the first two innings of game two to take a 5-0 lead.
It was 8-0 after the top of the third when SFU scored three more runs before the Argonauts got on the board with a pair of runs in their half of the third inning.
The two teams held each other off the scoreboard in the fourth and fifth before the Clan tacked on three more in the sixth.
UGF pushed one across in the bottom of the sixth but it was not enough to avoid the mercy as the Clan won 11-3 once again, this time pumping out 11 hits.
With the sweep, the Clan finish the regular season with a record of 27-21, after wrapping up conference play on
Saturday with a record of 15-9, finishing third in the GNAC.
The GNAC playoffs will get underway on
Thursday in Billings, MT when the Clan face second seeded Western Oregon at 11:00 a.m. PT.
