WNCC softball picks up two more wins Saturday in fall season

The Western Nebraska Community College softball team picked up two more wins in dominating fashion Saturday, dropping the University of Colorado 8-0 and 18-2 at Volunteer Field.

The Cougars two wins Saturday was dominated by pitching as Ashton Hughes, Aria Agle and Sarah Ward-Haddan combined for 25 strike outs in the two games.

In the opener, Hughes tossed three innings in striking out seven. Agle finished off the game striking out seven in four innings. The two hurlers allowed two hits in the contest.

The Cougars pounded out 13 hits in the opener, scoring three times in the second and four times in the fourth. Agle, Megan Bourdon, Rae-lee Tresierra, Sarah Hawryluk and Amanda Saldivar all had two hits for the Cougars.

Bourdon went 2-for-2 with a runs scored, double and RBI; Agle went 2-for-4 with a triple and two runs scored; Tresierra went 2-for-2 with a double and RBI; Hawryluk went 2-for-4 with two doubles, run scored and a RBI; and Saldivar went 2-for-4 with a double, 3 RBIs and a run scored.

The Cougar bats were more explosive in the second game of the doubleheader as they pounded out 18 hits in scoring their 18 runs. Joclyn Stubbs had the big stick, finishing 4-for-5 with a home run, four RBIs and three runs scored.

Stubbs led off the second inning with her towering shot, which ignited the Cougars to a nine-run inning. Other big hits in the second inning, which put the Cougars up 11-0, included a double and single by Bree Bitton, and a two run-scoring single by Stubbs in her second at bat in the inning.

WNCC added more runs in the fifth inning on seven hits. Chelsi Townsend and Saldivar each had doubles in the frame.

Ward-Hadden picked up the win, throwing five innings and striking out seven. Agle tossed the final two innings, striking out four. Each pitcher allowed one run.

Bitton went 2-for-3 with two runs scored and a double; Jordan Schoepflin went 2-for-3 with a run scored; Saldivar went 2-for-3 with a double, RBI and run scored; Bourdon went 3-for-4 with three runs scored; Townsend went 2-for-5 with a triple, double, and two runs scored.

WNCC will be back in action today when they travel to Ft. Collins, Colo., to face Colorado State University and the University of Northern Colorado beginning at 10 a.m.