Softball | 2/27/2009 6:38:34 PM

Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 [Game 1: Box score]  [Game 2: Box score]

NAMPA, Idaho - Amanda Fleer went 5-for-7 in the doubleheader with two home runs and two doubles as the Western Oregon University softball team took two games from Northwest Nazarene, 7-3 and 12-0, Friday, Feb. 27, at Halle Field.

The wins moved Western Oregon to 4-2 in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference as NNU fell to 1-5. 

"We played solid defense and had some good pitching but we also really hit the ball today." said WOU head coach Pam Knox. "We were really excited to get to play and we were very sharp all day."

Game 1
Second baseman Amanda Fleer hit two home runs and Jessica Wood pitched a complete game while striking out 10 Crusaders hitters to lead Western Oregon to a 7-3 victory in game one.

Wood went seven innings for her second complete game of the season, giving up just nine base runners and three runs, two earned, to improve to 2-0.

Fleer went 2-for-3 in the game with three RBIs as she went deep in the third and seventh innings. Her homer in the top of the third stretched the Wolves' lead to 5-2 and would prove to be the deciding runs.

Western Oregon jumped on NNU's pitching in the top of the first, scoring three runs, with the big blow coming on a one-out two-run homer by cleanup batter Jessica Hallmark.

Wood also helped her cause at the plate, as she went 2-for-4 with an RBI. Krysta Pennington went 2-for-4 with an RBI and two runs scored. Rocky Knuth reached base in all three of her plate appearances as she went 2-for-2 with a walk and a stolen base. Tyler Sutherland collected three walks out of the leadoff spot with a stolen base and a run scored.

Score by Innings R H E
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Western Oregon...... 303 000 1 - 7 9 0
Northwest Nazarene.. 020 000 1 - 3 5 3
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E - Hevern(4); Refsland(1); Chao(1). DP - Crusaders 2. LOB - Wolves 7;
Crusaders 5. 2B - Lowery(1); Chao(1). HR - Hallmark(1); Fleer 2(2). HBP -
Knuth. SH - Kenagy(1). SB - Sutherland(3); Knuth(2); Kenagy(1);
Duckworth(1). CS - Sutherland(2); Knuth(2).

Western Oregon IP H R ER BB SO AB BF
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Wood................ 7.0 5 3 2 4 10 25 29

Northwest Nazarene IP H R ER BB SO AB BF
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Duckworth,Cara...... 7.0 9 7 6 6 4 27 35

Win - Wood (2-0). Loss - Duckworth (1-2). Save - None.
WP - Wood(1). HBP - by Duckworth (Knuth). PB - Little 2(3).
Umpires -
Start: 1:30pm Time: 1:37 Attendance: 67
Game: NNU05


Game 2
Jessie Lessard was once again dominant in the second game of a doubleheader, as she pitched five shutout innings allowing only one runner past second base to lead the Western Oregon University softball team to a 12-0 victory in the nightcap.

Amanda Fleer was one of three Wolves to go 3-for-4 at the plate in the five inning game as she registered a single, two doubles and two runs scored to go along with an RBI. Leadoff batter Tyler Sutherland scored two runs and had an RBI to go along with her three hits. No. 2 hitter Rocky Knuth was a homerun away from the cycle as she scored two runs and collected two RBIs. Krysta Pennington led the team with three RBIs. On the day the Wolves' No. 1-5 hitters were 12-for-19 with 10 runs, seven RBIs and six extra base hits.

Lessard gave up just three singles in her five innings of work while striking out two. This was the second complete game of the season for Lessard as she improved to 2-1.

WOU was leading just 1-0 going into the top of the fourth inning before exploding for eight runs. The big hits in the inning were two-run singles by Pennington and Lessard.

Score by Innings R H E
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Western Oregon...... 010 83 - 12 16 0
Northwest Nazarene.. 000 00 - 0 3 0
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LOB - Wolves 8; Crusaders 3. 2B - Sutherland(3); Knuth(2); Hallmark(1);
Fleer 2(3). 3B - Knuth(1). HBP - Hancock. SH - George(2).

Western Oregon IP H R ER BB SO AB BF
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Lessard............. 5.0 3 0 0 0 2 18 18

Northwest Nazarene IP H R ER BB SO AB BF
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Anderson,Chelsey.... 5.0 16 12 12 1 3 32 35

Win - Lessard (2-1). Loss - Anderson (0-3). Save - None.
HBP - by Anderson (Hancock).
Umpires -
Start: 3:45 Time: 1:24 Attendance: 67 

"You can get excited about the victories but you have to go back out and do it again tomorrow," noted Knox.

These teams will play another doubleheader tomorrow (Feb. 28) beginning at 11:00 a.m. (mst).