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CALDWELL, Idaho – The College of Idaho Yotes used two strong pitching performances and kept the Eastern Oregon University softball teams offense quiet for the majority of the day as the Yotes swept the Mountaineers, 3-0 and 6-3, in Cascade Collegiate Conference action on Wednesday.  The Mountaineers were limited to nine hits on the day and only scored in the final inning of game two.
 
Game One – Nickayla Skinner kept the Mountaineers off balance during game one, as she struck out 12 batters, walked one and hit one batter in seven innings of work to defeat Eastern Oregon, 3-0.
 
Mariebeth Watanabe led off the game with a double down the left field line. She advanced to third base on a Katie Martell ground out. With two out and a runner on third Stephanie Maestretti drew a walked but both Watanabe and Maestretti were stranded on base and Cassie Wendt grounded out to end the inning.
 
The Yotes broke the scoreless tie in the bottom of the second inning. Destiny Turner led off the inning with a walk. With Katie Rowe up to bat, Turner stole second base and advanced to third on a throwing error by the Mountaineer's catcher. Turner scored on a fielding error by EOU and took a 1-0 lead. McKensie Stanton drove home the second run of the inning for College of Idaho as she doubled to left center.
 
College of Idaho added to its lead in the bottom of the fourth inning. The Yotes loaded the bases with two outs, but a passed ball allowed Skinner to score from third base to extend its lead to 3-0 over the Mountaineers.
 
After the first inning the Mountaineers did not get a runner past first base. Brittnee Carman-Rice recorded the second hit for EOU in the top of the fifth inning but the next three hitters were retired.
EOU dropped game one, 3-0, to College of Idaho.
 
Game Two – The Yotes and Mountaineers were locked in a pitching duel to start the second game as neither team's offenses could figure out the pitchers.  Lindsey Walchli and Cortni Pena kept the teams off the bases until the bottom of the fourth.

College of Idaho broke the game wide open in the bottom of the fourth inning as the Yotes scored six runs in the frame. With the bases loaded and one out, Paige Gabiola singled to left field, which scored the first two runs of the game. College of Idaho was not done, as the Yotes loaded the bases after a Briana Brace walk. With the bases loaded and Ashley Van Horne at bat, Walchli threw a wild pitch which allowed every runner to advance a base and put College of Idaho on top 3-0. Van Horne followed with a single up the middle to score two more and extend the lead to 5-0. Van Horne came around to score on a single by Turner extending the Yotes lead to 6-0 after four innings of play.
 
The Mountaineers offense came to live in the top of the seventh inning. With one out, Andrea Roeder singled to lead off the inning. She advanced to second base on a wild pitch by Pena. With Roeder on second base, Pena got Watanabe to fly out for the second out of the inning. JoElla Smith reached base on a Yotes fielding error, which scored Roeder putting EOU on the board. On a 2-2 count Katie Martell put the Mountaineers down three, 6-3, after hitting a two run home run over the left field fence. However that would be all the Mountaineers would get as EOU dropped game two, 6-3.
 
Eastern Oregon recorded seven hits in the second game and was led by Mariebeth Watanabe and Katie Martell, who had two hits apiece.