NORTH
PLATTE -- Bianca Duran and Lindsey Shiels-Brophy each had two home runs and the
17th-ranked Western Nebraska Community College softball team swept a
doubleheader from North Platte Community College Wednesday in North Platte.
Duran,
Shiels-Brophy and Shelby McGraw each homered in game one as the Cougars pounded
out 13 hits in the 11-1 win. WNCC was just as explosive in game two behind a
3-hit pitching performance from McGraw in getting the 11-3 win.
The
wins move the Cougars to 32-7 on the year. More importantly, it was WNCC's
ninth straight win as they enter an important conference doubleheader against
39-3 Otero Junior College and Trinidad State Junior College Friday and Saturday
at Volunteer Field.
The
Cougars played well in both games, combining for 27 hits and committing just
two fielding errors. In the opening game, the Cougars had four players register
two more hits. Angel Council led the way with a 3-for-4 game with two runs
scored. Duran, Jennifer Cottle, and Shiels-Brophy each had two hits. Duran had
three RBIs and a home run, while Cottle had a double, two runs scored.
Shiels-Brophy had a home run and three RBIs.
It
didn't take long for the Cougars offense to get cranked up. Duran led off the
game, taking the second pitch and hammering it over the leftfield fence for the
1-0 lead. WNCC added two more in the second inning as Hailee Mecham doubled and
then Duran delivered a 2-run scoring single.
The
Cougars opened up the game in the third inning with five runs. Council led off
with single followed by Cottle getting a double. McGraw followed with a 3-run
home run. Shiels-Brophy followed with a solo shot to help WNCC lead 8-0.
Duran
picked up the win, going three innings in allowing two hits, one run and
striking out three. McGraw tossed the final two innings in striking out two and
not allowing a hit.
Game
two saw the same kind of offensive explosion as three different players
registered three hits apiece. Duran, Council, and Cottle all had three hits.
McGraw and Shiels-Brophy each had two hits in the win. Duran had a home run,
three runs scored and a RBI from her lead-off spot, while Council had two RBIs.
Cottle had two RBIs in the contest.
WNCC
scored three times in the first on four singles, and then added two runs in the
second on three singles. Shiels-Brophy started the long ball with a solo shot
in the third before Duran had a solo shot in the fourth inning.
The
Cougars put the game away in the fifth with four runs with McGraw getting a
double and Cottle smacking a 2-run single.
McGraw
picked up the win in the circle, going four innings, allowing three runs on
three hits while striking out two. Ravae Herrera tossed the final inning in
striking out two.
First Game
WNCC 125
30 -- 11 13 2
North Platte 001
00 -- 1 3 1
WP -- Bianca Duran; 2B -- Duran, Danielle Hearn, Hailee
Mecham; HR -- Duran, Lindsey Shiels-Brophy, Shelby McGraw.
Second Game
WNCC 321
14 -- 11 14 3
North Platte 110
10 -- 3 3 0
WP - -McGraw, 2B -- McGraw; HR -- Duran, Shiels-Brophy.
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