The Fort Lewis College softball team and UC-Colorado Springs combined to hit nine home runs in Sunday’s doubleheader, and it was the home team that supplied most of the power.
The Mountain Lions hit six home runs in the two games and battered Fort Lewis pitching for 16 runs on the day en route to a 6-3, 10-3 sweep of the Skyhawks.
UC-Colorado Springs dominated the four-game weekend series outscoring Fort Lewis 31-12 and winning all four games.
The Skyhawks (3-18, 0-8 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference) have had impressive individual performances on offense in recent games, but they’ve had trouble stringing hits together as a unit.
It was Jeovanna Rios, Missy Fundora and Denae Fisher who did the damage for FLC on Sunday. Rios had a home run in each game while Fundora was 4-for-7 at the plate on the day.
Fisher was 2-for-3 in game one and knocked a second-inning home run that got the Skyhawks on the board. The Mountain Lions (9-4, 6-2 RMAC) scored six runs in the first three innings off FLC pitcher Victoria Johnson.
Johnson, however, kept her team in the ballgame by shutting the door on the UCCS offense in the late innings. She went the distance in the circle allowing seven hits, six runs and six walks while fanning six Mountain Lions.
With their ace dialed in, the Skyhawks narrowed the gap on Nikki Klepfer’s fourth inning single to left field that drove in Fisher. In the last half inning, Rios blasted her first home run of the day over the left field fence, but the Skyhawks couldn’t mount a late rally.
In game two, Angelique Elemen gave the Skyhawks the lead with a first-inning double that plated Fundora. The home team responded with a run in the bottom half and four in the second inning off Skyhawks pitcher Olivia Goldberg.
After the Mountain Lions’ third home run of the game gave them a 6-1 fourth inning lead, Klefper singled to left field to score Rios, who launched her second home run of the day to right field in the sixth inning.
The two losses extend the Skyhawks’ losing streak to 13.
Fort Lewis will return home for a noon doubleheader Saturday at Aspen Field against Colorado Christian.
The two teams will play another doubleheader at 11 a.m. Sunday.
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