PORTLAND, Ore.—Four Lewis & Clark College pitchers combined to allow two runs over 14 innings, to help Softball complete the Northwest Conference sweep of Whitworth University on Sunday afternoon at the Huston Sports Complex. 
 
THE BASICS 
 
Lewis & Clark 7, Whitworth 2
Lewis & Clark 5, Whitworth 0
(Lewis & Clark 5-5, NWC 4-0) 
(Whitworth 0-10, NWC 0-6) 

HOW IT HAPPENED 
 
Seniors Maggie O'Leary and Charlize Pope, junior Ryan Jurischk and first year Sammy Santa Ana combined to limit Whitworth to nine hits, seven walks and two runs in Sunday's doubleheader sweep. The River Otters pitching staff tacked on 11 strikeouts. 
 
Junior Harper Campanella paced Lewis & Clark offensively. She posted multiple hits in both games and finished 4-7 with two runs, two RBI, a double and a home run. 
 
GAME ONE RECAP 
 
Lewis & Clark struck for five runs in the third inning and O'Leary and Jurischk held the Pirates offense in check to clinch the series victory. 
 
O'Leary picked up her second win of the weekend. The senior scattered three hits, no walks, one run and one strikeout over four innings. Jurischk came on in relief and allowed five hits, no walks and one run across the final three frames. The junior struck out two to earn her first save of the season. 
 
Junior Makena Dahir, Campanella, senior Emily Patton and first year Kodie Ancheta all posted two hits in the win. Dahir finished 2-4 with a run scored, three RBI and a home run. Campanella chipped in a homer of her own, two hits and two runs scored. Patton went 2-2 with a run scored and Ancheta chipped in two hits, a run scored, an RBI and a triple. 
 
After 2.5 scoreless innings, Lewis & Clark blew the game open in the third. Senior Gina Ozuna reached on an error to start the frame and she raced home on an Ancheta RBI triple to the wall in right field. Ancheta made it 2-0 moments later when she sprinted home on a wild pitch. With two down, Campanella blasted a home run to straight-away center field. Senior Lacey Marglin followed with a double to center and Dahir crushed a home run that landed well past the fence in left field. 
 
Lewis & Clark expanded the lead to 7-1 in the fourth. Patton started the rally with a one-out, hit by pitch and moved to second on a Campanella single. The River Otters made it 6-0 when the Pirates threw the ball away on a grounder that allowed Patton to score from second. Dahir closed out the scoring for the home team with an RBI single through the left side. 
 
Whitworth cut the deficit to 7-2 with two down in the seventh but Jurischk induced a pop up to strand two runners and seal the win. 
 
GAME TWO RECAP 
 
Santa Ana and Pope held Whitworth to one hit and Lewis & Clark scored five runs in the first four innings to complete their first four-game sweep of the season. 
 
Santa Ana shut down the Pirates for a second-straight day. The first year allowed one single and five walks across five scoreless innings. She added six strikeouts to move to 2-0 in two career starts. Pope retired six of the seven batters she faced (one hit by pitch) and struck out three in her first appearance of the weekend. 
 
The top four in the River Otters lineup combined to do most of the damage. Ancheta, senior Madison Scroggins, Patton and Campanella went 6-12 with three runs, four RBI and a walk. Scroggins recorded two hits, a run scored and an RBI. Campanella added two hits, an RBI and a double. Ancheta and Patton each recorded an extra-base hit, a run scored and an RBI. 
 
Senior Gina Ozuna was the third Lewis & Clark hitter to finish with multiple hits. Ozuna went 2-3 with two runs scored. 
 
Lewis & Clark leapt out to a 3-0 lead after just four batters in the bottom of the first inning. Ancheta reached on a throwing error by the third baseman and raced to second base on the overthrow. Scroggins made it 1-0 when she laced an RBI single to center field and advanced to second on the throw home. Patton extended the lead to 2-0 when she ripped a triple to center field to score Scroggins. Campanella added an RBI double to center field to stretch the lead to 3-0. 
 
Whitworth put together their only rally of the game in the second. The visitors used a pair of walks and a single to center field to load the bases with two outs. Santa Ana settled in and struck out Natalie Singer to get out of the jam. 
 
The River Otters added a fourth run in the second. Ozuna and Scroggins each reached on infield singles to put runners at the corners with two down. The hosts used a delayed double steal to score Ozuna from third base to make it 4-0. 
 
Lewis & Clark capped off the scoring in the fourth. Ozuna laced a single to center with one out and she was easily able to score when Ancheta blasted a double to right-center to push the lead to 5-0. 
 
Whitworth put three runners on base in the final three innings but Santa Ana and Pope did not allow a runner to reach third base, to secure the team's second shutout win of the weekend. 
 
BY THE NUMBERS 

• Lewis & Clark earned their 10^th and 11^th-straight wins over the Pirates. The River Otters have now earned back-to-back season sweeps of Whitworth and won the season-series in three-straight seasons. Lewis & Clark has outscored Whitworth 87-21 during that span. 
• In 10 innings of work this weekend, Santa Ana allowed three hits, seven walks and no runs. She added the first 14 strikeouts of her career. 
• Patton and Campanella each finished the weekend hitting .600 (6-10). Ancheta (7-12) and Ozuna (5-9) also finished above .500 and Ancheta led the team with five extra-base hits and 13 total bases. 
• The River Otters pitching staff combined for a 1.35 ERA (five earned runs in 26 innings) and struck out 27 batters. They held Whitworth to a .183 batting average for the weekend. 
• Ozuna posted five assists and two putouts in game one.  

WHO'S NEXT 
 
Lewis & Clark will travel to Atlanta to play two 2025 NCAA DIII Tournament Teams. The River Otters will play host #13 Emory University on Friday at 7 am Pacific/10 am Eastern. Lewis & Clark will take on Pfeiffer University at 11 am Pacific/2 pm Eastern.