BURNABY, B.C. – Simon Fraser lost 10-1 and 13-4, both in five innings, in Saturday's Great Northwest Athletic Conference softball doubleheader at Northwest Nazarene in Nampa, Idaho. The team concluded the 2022 regular season with a record of 18 wins and 24 losses (9-15 GNAC).
 
GAME 1 | Northwest Nazarene 10, Simon Fraser 1 (five innings)

Senior Chelsea Hotner put SFU in front 1-0 in the third inning. She drove a triple, her first of the season, to center field to score sophomore Megan Duclos, who led off the inning with a single.

However, NNU replied with six runs in the home half of the third. The big blow was a Charlotte Forniss grand slam home run to give the Nighthawks a 6-1 advantage.

The hosts added a run in the next inning, and then three more in the fifth to round out the scoring.

SFU got a pair of players on base in each of the final two innings but couldn't add to its run total.
 
Senior Georgia Ogg led SFU by going 2-for-2 at the plate. Duclos, senior Hanna Finkelstein, and Hotner had the team's other hits.
 

GAME 2 | Northwest Nazarene 13, Simon Fraser 4 (five innings)

The two teams combined for nine runs in the opening inning, with five being unearned.

SFU went ahead 3-0, with the first run batted in by freshman Janique Balcaen. She hit a two-out single to left field to score Finkelstein. Senior Rebecca Kirkpatrick then singled to center field, allowing Hotner to come home. A Georgia Ogg single loaded the bases and kept the inning going. In the next at-bat, Balcaen scored on a wild pitch.
 
The Nighthawks answered with a half-dozen runs in the bottom of the first. Maia McNicoll hit a bases-loaded double down the left-field line for three runs to tie the score. She came home on an error on the next at-bat. NNU posted a two more runs – both unearned – later in the inning to go in front 6-3.
 
In the second, Finkelstein hit a two-out solo home run down the left-field line. Her team-leading eighth home run cut SFU's deficit to 6-4.
 
However, the visitors were unable to get any closer as the Nighthawks posted seven runs in the last two innings.
 
Finkelstein and Kirkpatrick had a pair of hits each, while Finkelstein also scored a couple of runs.
 
Alex Ogg finished her career with 47 stolen bases, the most in school history, and the top overall batting average (.411) in SFU's NCAA era. She's tied for the most NCAA-era triples (five) for SFU and is second in hits (183) and total bases (225).

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