Softball | 4/12/2012 9:29:00 PM

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

NAMPA, Idaho - The Western Oregon softball team ran its season-best winning streak to six games as it completed a four-game series sweep of Northwest Nazarene with a 4-2 and 17-9 doubleheader win on Thursday, Apr. 12.

This was the second straight series win for the Wolves who ran their Great Northwest Athletic Conference record to 9-12.

Game 1
Hannah Pomeroy went seven inning allowing six hits and two earned runs while striking out five to lead Western Oregon to a 4-2 win in the opener.

The Wolves were forced to come from behind in the game as they scored all four of their runs in the final three innings. Trailing 1-0 entering the fifth, WOU knotted up the game with doubles from Ashley Worthey and Ashlie Garnder. Western Oregon would grab its first lead of the game in the sixth on an error which allowed Amanda Evola to trot in from third base.

NNU would tie the game back up in the bottom of the sixth on a solo home run, but the Wolves answered with two more in the top of the seventh for the deciding 4-2 margin of victory. Gardner would lead off the inning by reaching on an error and eventually came around to score the game-winning run on a wild pitch. Ali Parkerson would also add an insurance run later in the inning on NNU's second wild pitch of the inning.

Worthey was the only member of either team to record a multi-hit game. She went 2-for-2 with a run scored and a double. Western Oregon was outhit in the game 6-4 but found other ways to create offense as they tacked up four steals and five walks.

Game 2
Andrea Bailey went 4-for-4 with five runs scored and Jourdan Williams drove in five runs to lead Western Oregon to a 17-9 slugfest victory over Northwest Nazarene in the nightcap.

Bailey and Williams helped fuel a Wolves' offense that cranked out 17 runs while leaving just five runners on base. The top four spot in Western Oregon's lineup combined to go 10-for-15 with two homers, 10 RBI and 14 runs scored. Williams finished the game 3-for-4 with a home run, three runs scored and a career-high five RBI. Danielle Harcourt also knocked in three runs out of the No. 5 hole in the lineup and Kendra George came off the bench to go 2-for-3 with two runs scored and two RBI.

Western Oregon scored in all but the third inning. It put up four in the first capped off by a three-run homer from Williams. The Wolves would add three more in the second, three in the fourth, five in the fifth and two more in the sixth.

Hannah Pomeroy (5-7) picked up her second win of the day as she came into the game in relief and pitched the final 2.2 innings allowing just two hits and a run.

Arielle Chao led the Crusaders' offense by going 2-for-3 with two runs scored and four RBI.

Next games
Western Oregon will now travel home to host a pair of doubleheaders. The Wolves will face Central Washington on Saturday, Apr. 14th as part of their annual 'Pink Out' Day at Noon. Western Washington will then be in town on Sunday to take on WOU in a doubleheader starting at 11:00 a.m.