Box Scores - Game 1, Game 2

ASHLAND, Ore. -- The Eastern Oregon University softball team won one of two conference games at Southern Oregon University.

The Mountaineers (7-1, 1-1) won the opener 7-1, with the Raiders coming back to take a 10-2 mercy-rule shortened nightcap.

The trip to Southern Oregon (5-11, 1-1) marked the beginning of the 2010 Cascade Collegiate Conference schedule for the Mountaineers. Eastern's 7-0 start of the season is one of its best in school history.

"It's great to get a win on the road against a good team like SOU," EOU head coach Missy Wheeler said. "We need to focus on being more consistent and aggressive at the plate though."

In the opener, Eastern's Jen McDonnell held the Raider offense to just four hits on the mound, and hit a home run and a double to score three of Eastern's seven runs. The freshman is now 6-0 to begin her collegiate career.

The Mountaineers scored a pair of runs off of three hits in the second inning. McDonnell's two run home run provided the game's next scoring in the top of the fifth inning. EOU added another run in that inning and two more runs in the seventh.

McDonnell was 3 for 4 in Game 1 with 4 RBI. Krista Kountz was 2 for 3.

In the second game, Rayna Okimoto delivered a one-out triple to start a big first inning rally. Meghan Laughlin got the Raiders on the board with a single and Bailey Price and Jessica Flores delivered back-to-back singles to put the Raiders up 2-0.

Junior Sarah Wharton then unloaded on her second home run of the season, a deep shot over the wall in left to give the Raiders a 5-0 lead after the first.

In the second, Katie Moy led off with a single and scored on a double by Laughlin. Price then made it 7-0 with a run-scoring single.

The Raiders went up 9-0 after a pair of un-earned runs in the fourth and won it in the sixth with a single and two-base error by Price and a game-winning infield single by Wharton.

Ashli Hughes was 3 for 3 in Game 2 for EOU. She scored one of the Mountaineers two runs in the top of the sixth inning.

Junior Karri Johnson picked up her first win as a Raider, going six innings and allowing just five hits.

Eastern plays Saturday at Oregon Institute of Technology, games starting at 11 a.m.