Following a disrupting loss to Clackamas, Friday, the Mt. Hood Community College softball team has pulled ahead once more with a four-game winning streak, blazing them straight to the top of the NWAACC Southern Region league standings with a record of 17-1, 19-4 overall.

The Saints are actually second only to regional rivals Lower Columbia (.880 and 23-3) in winning percentage through the entire NWAACC, at .830.

The loss to Clackamas, ending a 13-game winning streak executed by the Saints, featured a 12 hit, 7-run blowout executed by the Cougars in the first game of Friday’s doubleheader. The second game was rained out and rescheduled for Thursday. Results were unavailable at press time.

After Friday’s loss, the Saints bounced back and swept Southwestern Oregon (SWOCC) at a doubleheader Saturday afternoon, 4-2 and 8-6.

“It was hard to come back, but we really came back in the second game,” said head softball coach Meadow McWhorter. “It was tough because it was a four-and-a-half hour drive and the SWOCC fans are really crazy.”

Infielder Megan English-Young led the offense Saturday, hitting two triples in game two of the doubleheader. “Both games were good, but game two was the dog-fight,” said McWhorter.

During game one of the Saints’ doubleheader victories against Pierce Tuesday, 10-0 in five innings and 9-1 in six innings, left-hander Samantha Stockfleth pitched a one-hit shutout with eight strikeouts. She was also a prominent force at the plate, going two for three with a walk.

“I’m pumped-up that I got to pitch and that’s why I think I did so well,” she said.
Other offensive threats during the doubleheader were infielder Allison Grice, who went three for three and was a single short of a cycle, outfielder Amanda Moutsanides who went two for two with a pair of doubles, and catcher Jill Quesenberry who went two for three. Both Moutsanides and Grice hit their first home runs of the season during game one.

“They had timely hitting, we didn’t. They found holes and we didn’t,” said Pierce shortstop Rachel Kalac. “You have to hit the ball to win and that’s what they did.”
McWhorter agrees. “They needed confidence, they got it.”