STERLING, Kan. -- The Western Nebraska Community College softball team blasted seven home runs, including grand slams by Kara Ryman and Alec Voci to register a double header sweep over Sterling College Junior Varsity Friday afternoon.
The Cougars blasted three home runs in a 21-0 win in the first game, and then had four home runs in the second game as the Cougars won 18-2. The wins give the Cougars 40 wins on the season.
“We swung the bats real well,” WNCC coach Maria Winn-Ratliff said. “Natasha [Dypchey] and Jessica [Pexton] did a nice job in the circle.”
WNCC had little trouble with Sterling College on the day. In the opener, the Cougars had 24 hits in the 21-0 win. Natasha Dypchey picked up the win, going five innings while scattering four hits and striking out four.
The Cougars started the hit parade with a bang as lead-off hitter Lauren Mills led off with a home run. Two batters later, Jessica McNabb blasted a 3-run shot for a 3-0 lead. In the fifth, Ryman recorded the third home run of the game as she blasted a grand slam in a 10-run inning.
Ryman paced the team with a 4-for-5 performance, including three runs scored, five RBIs and three singles. Also Mills went 3-for-3 with a single, double, home run, three runs scored and two RBIs, Lauren Bourdon going 3-for-4 with three singles and two runs scored, Lauryn Smith going 2-for-2 with a double, Voci going 2-for-3 with two runs scored, and Whittany Foster going 2-for-3 with two runs scored, two RBIs and a double.
WNCC continued their hitting in game two, collecting 17 hits and scoring 18 runs. The Cougars had four home runs, as Voci finished with two homers. Voci had a grand slam in the first inning and then hit another dinger over the 275-foot slow-pitch fence in the fifth inning. Also collecting home runs were Ryman in the fourth and Smith in the fifth.
Mills and Bourdon each went 3-for-4. Mills had a double and two runs scored, while Bourdon had four RBIs, two runs scored and a double.
Amanda Hensley finished with a 2-for-4 game with three runs, while Ryman went 1-for-4 with the 2-run home run. Kayli Allen also finished 1-for-1 with a double, while Smith went 2-for-2 with a triple, home run and two RBIs.
Pexton picked up the win going five innings and striking out three.
WNCC, 40-6, will continue it’s Kansas swing with a double header at Friends College Junior varsity today.
First Game
WNCC 342 2(10) -- 21 24 3
Sterling 000 00 -- 0 4 0
WP -- Dypchey; 2B -- Mills, McNabb, Smith, Foster; HR -- Mills, McNabb, Ryman.
Second Game
WNCC 610 74 -- 18 17 1
Sterling 000 20 -- 2 3 1
WP -- Pexton, 2B -- Mills, Bourdon, Allen; 3B -- Smith; HR -- Voci (2), Ryman, Smith.
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