PORTLAND, Ore.—Lewis & Clark College softball honored their seniors pregame and then kept the celebrations going, during a doubleheader sweep of Pacific University on Senior Day.
THE BASICS
Lewis & Clark 9, Pacific 0 (5 Innings)
Lewis & Clark 9, Pacific 1 (5 Innings)
(Lewis & Clark 26-14, Northwest Conference 21-7)
(Pacific 16-22, NWC 11-16)
HOW IT HAPPENED
Lewis & Clark honored their 11 seniors prior to their final regular-season contest. The group earned their 99
thand 100
th career wins on Sunday to become the first class in program history to reach the century mark.
Megan Yanagi,
Emily Patton,
Charlize Pope,
Maggie O'Leary,
McKenna Zehnder,
Gina Ozuna,
Cami Restagno,
Tallulah Sickels,
Lacey Marglin,
Lola Jarrette and
Madison Scroggins all played their final career games at the Huston Sports Complex.
Pope and O'Leary dominated in the circle. Pope posted her third career shutout in game one by allowing four hits across five innings. O'Leary allowed one unearned run and five hits across five innings.
GAME ONE RECAP
Lewis & Clark struck for six runs in the first and all nine of their runs in the first two innings, to cruise to their second mercy-rule win of the weekend.
Pope limited the Boxers to four singles and two walks and struck out two, to earn her fourth win of the season.
The River Otters started all seniors and had no problems against Alissa Hermansen – who had held Lewis & Clark to one run on Saturday.
Sickels came through with the best offensive game of her career. Sickels went 2-3 with a double and three RBI. Restagno and Scroggins each chipped in two hits, two runs scored and an RBI. Patton chipped in two hits and two runs scored and Marglin registered a run scored and two RBI.
Lewis & Clark erupted for six runs in the first. After an Ozuna walk, Scroggins laced a single to right center and Ozuna came all the way home from first base. Restagno added an RBI single of her own and Marglin made it 3-0 when the Boxers couldn't handle her ground ball. Zehnder pushed the lead to 4-0 with an RBI single and two more runs came in when Pacific committed an error on a Sickels' grounder.
The River Otters tacked on three more runs in the second. With the bases loaded and no outs, Marglin made it 7-0 with a sacrifice fly to right that plated Scroggins. Sickels came through with a two-out, two-run double to right center to push the advantage to 9-0.
Pacific would put a runner on in every inning but Pope only allowed two runners to reach second base to earn her first shutout of the season.
GAME TWO RECAP
After engaging in a pitcher's duel for four innings, Lewis & Clark struck for seven runs in the bottom of the fifth inning to pick up their fifth win in seven NWC series.
O'Leary held the Boxers to five singles and one walk and struck out one. She allowed one unearned run in the fourth inning to snap her 24.1 scoreless inning streak.
Junior
Makena Dahir, who was the only non-senior to start in either game on Sunday, led the team with two doubles, a run scored and three RBI. Patton chipped in a hit, a run scored and an RBI and Scroggins scored twice on a hit and walk.
In the bottom of the first inning, Scroggins walked, stole second and was able to trot home on a Dahir two-out RBI double.
Pacific managed to tie the score in the fourth. The visitors loaded the bases on a walk and two errors and Abby Surowiec came through with an RBI single through the right side to tie the score at 1-1. Jordan Ingram followed with a line drive but Restagno reached up and made the catch at third base to strand the bases loaded.
Lewis & Clark took advantage of a pair of Boxers errors to edge back ahead in the bottom of the fourth. Restagno started the rally with a two-out hit by pitch and was safe at second base on a drop by the shortstop. Junior
Harper Campanella plated Restagno when she hit a hard grounder that the shortstop failed to field - to make it 2-1.
The River Otters poured it on in the fifth inning to seal the win. Patton started the scoring with a one-out RBI single to plate Ozuna. Dahir made it 5-1 with a two-run double to left and advanced to third on a throwing error. Restagno followed with a suicide squeeze bunt to tack on a sixth run. Marglin and Zehnder worked back-to-back walks and the Boxers committed their fourth error of the game on a throw to second that went wildly into right field to score two more runs. First year
Kodie Ancheta capped off the home season (15-1) with an RBI single to left field that scored first year
Cici Fortuno and put the mercy-rule into effect.
BY THE NUMBERS
- Pope posted her first shutout since April 5, 2025, when she threw five scoreless innings in a 13-0 win over Whitworth.
- Sickels posted career-highs for a single-game in hits (two) and RBI (three) in game one.
- This year's Senior Class finishes up their career 41-9 (82% winning percentage) in their three years on the renovated Huston Sports Complex Field. They went 53-15 (77.9%) across their four seasons at home.
- O'Leary and Pope combined to allow 1 earned run in 19.1 innings pitched this weekend. Lewis & Clark finished the weekend with a 0.91 team ERA.
- Scroggins led Lewis & Clark on the weekend with a .556 batting average (5-9) and tacked on five runs and two RBI.
WHAT'S NEXT
Lewis & Clark will travel to top-seeded Pacific Lutheran University on Friday for the Northwest Conference Tournament. The River Otters will take #8 Linfield University in their first game of the tournament with the start time TBA.
