Softball | 4/24/2010 6:04:49 PM

Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 | Box Score 3 [Game 1 box score] [Game 2 box score] [Game 3 box score]

MONMOUTH, Ore. - Western Washington took two of the three games of a softball tripleheader from Western Oregon, Saturday, Apr. 24. The Vikings won game one 6-3 and game two 9-0, before the Wolves bounced back to take game three 5-2.

The losses ended Western Oregon's (27-16, 21-9 GNAC) seven-game winning streak and dropped the team two games out of first place in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference, as Central Washington swept a five-game series from Northwest Nazarene. The wins brought Western Washington's record to 21-20 on the season and to 17-13 in the GNAC.

Game 1
Kelsey Anderson went 3-for-3 with two RBI and two runs scored, and Krista Bickar added a game-winning three-run homer to lift Western Washington to a 6-3 win in game one.

The Wolves led 3-2 entering the bottom of the sixth inning before the Vikings put four runs on the board. After Michelle Wrigley had singled and Meghan Flem received an intentional walk, Anderson doubled in the left center field gap to tie the game at 3-3. Kelsie Bickar then stepped to the plate with two runners in scoring position and belted her fourth home run of the year to give the Vikings the 6-3 lead.

Sarah McEnroe (9-8) earned the win in relief. She gave up just one hit and no earned runs while striking out five in her 3.1 innings of work.

Jessie Lessard (6-7) was saddled with the loss after surrendering five hits and five runs.

WWU pitchers struck out 10 WOU batters in the contest compared to just one strikeout for the Wolves' pitchers.

Bailey Rueck delivered her seventh home run in the fourth as part of a three-run inning for the Wolves.

Game 2
Sarah McEnroe (10-8) extended her scoreless inning streak against WOU to 9.1 innings as she delivered a complete game shutout in a 9-0 game two victory. She gave up seven hits and walked no one while striking out seven, while the Western Washington offense put up three runs in the second, fourth and sixth innings for the win.

WWU had just seven hits but two of those were three-run homers as Samantha Rutherford and Krista Bicker both went deep off Wolves' starter Jessica Wood (5-6).

Tyler Sutherland and Amanda Fleer both collected two singles for WOU, to account for four of its seven hits.

Game 3
Jessica Hallmark accounted five of Western Oregon runs in a 5-2 win as she went 3-for-3 with two two-run homers and three runs scored, and WOU salvaged the final game of the tripleheader against Western Washington with a 5-2 victory.

Brittany Reeves (6-2) also delivered a strong performance on the mound with a complete game. She allowed nine hits and two runs while striking out three to keep WOU in the game.

Jessica Hallmark hit the first of her two home runs in the second to put WOU in front 2-1. She then connected on her second of the game and her 11th of the season in the fourth inning to break a 2-2 tie and put WOU in front for good. Her 11 home runs this year breaks her own school record which she set in 2009 with 10.

WWU outhit WOU 9-7 in the game but stranded 10 runners compared to just three for the Wolves.

Next games
Western Oregon and Western Washington will complete its five-game series with a doubleheader tomorrow (Apr. 25), starting at 11:00 a.m.