Game 1 Boxscore
Game 2 Boxscore

MONMOUTH, Ore. - Western Oregon got shutout pitching from Kelsey White and Jessie Lessard and got all its RBIs from the bottom third of its order in sweeping a GNAC softball doubleheader from Northwest Nazarene Friday at Monmouth.

In the opener Kelsey White hurled the Wolves (11-8, 9-5) to a 2-0 ictory over the Crusaders (4-14, 4-14). Lessard then pitched Western Oregon to a 1-0 win in the nightcap.

White, who is now 5-0 and has a 1.00 ERA, walked one and fanned four in outpitching Chelsey Anderson, who issued four walks and struck out three.

Lessard (3-3) didn't walk a batter and struck out nine in outdueling Nicole Grummons, who also didn't walk a batter and struck out four in the 69 minute second game.

"Nicole pitched great, we just need to get the offense going," commented NNU head coach Julie Coert.  "A couple errors hurt us in game one, but we were solid in game two...but just couldn't get one across the plate."

Catcher Ellen Bogardus, batting seventh, doubled in the bottom of the fifth to drive in the only runs in the first game. Bogardus' extra-base hit drove in Jessica Hallmark who had singled and Amanda Fleer who had walked.

Hallmark went three for three and Tierra-Lyn Cuba had two hits to lead the Wolves seven-hit attack. Anderson had two of the five NNU hits off of White.

Alyssa DesBiens, WOU's eighth place hitter, had the game's only RBI in the fifth inning of the nightcap. Fleer started the decisive frame with a single, advanced on an error and a bunt and then scored on a double by DesBiens.

The Wolves managed just three hits in the game, while NNU had six, two by Emily Renfrow.