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Weekend features home run chase, rivalry games
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| Amanda Doherty |
March 22, 2007
While Oregon Tech's baseball team continues its travels, the softball team finally gets to play at home - with plenty on the line.
The Hustlin' Owls host Northwest Christian College, which will join the Cascade Collegiate Conference next season, at 11 a.m. Saturday and will take a 12-2-1 record into the doubleheader.
At noon Sunday, OIT will host Southern Oregon as both teams open league play.
Throughout it all, All-American shortstop Amanda Doherty will continue her assault on the OIT record book.
Doherty has five home runs this season, and she missed four games because of basketball, to push her career home run total to 43, one shy of the school record.
Meagan Webber hit 44 during her All-American career at OIT.
“If (Doherty) does do it this weekend, that means she's still swinging the bat pretty well,” OIT coach Greg Stewart said, adding that it's nice to finally play at home.
“I hope the weather is good,” he said.
The early forecast is for temperatures in the upper 50s, cloudy and dry.
Doherty is coming off a weekend effort for which she was named NAIA Region I Player of the Week, while the Hustlin' Owls' Jenni Bittle was named regional Pitcher of the Week.
Big weekend
Doherty went 7-for-16 and hit two home runs and a triple, drove in eight runs and scored seven in the Owls' 3-0-1 effort against Dominican of California.
Bittle pitched two complete-game wins, including a perfect game. In 14 innings, she allowed three hits, two unearned runs, struck out 14 and walked one.
OIT's week got better Wednesday when the first regular season poll of the year came out and the Hustlin' Owls moved up three spots and now are ranked No. 12 in the country.
The Owls were within 10 points of the No. 11 spot which is held by Vanguard.
When the conference season begins Sunday, the doubleheader at OIT will pit the defending league champion Owls against SOU, which was second in the league a year ago.
- Steve Matthies
While Oregon Tech's baseball team continues its travels, the softball team finally gets to play at home - with plenty on the line.
The Hustlin' Owls host Northwest Christian College, which will join the Cascade Collegiate Conference next season, at 11 a.m. Saturday and will take a 12-2-1 record into the doubleheader.
At noon Sunday, OIT will host Southern Oregon as both teams open league play.
Throughout it all, All-American shortstop Amanda Doherty will continue her assault on the OIT record book.
Doherty has five home runs this season, and she missed four games because of basketball, to push her career home run total to 43, one shy of the school record.
Meagan Webber hit 44 during her All-American career at OIT.
“If (Doherty) does do it this weekend, that means she's still swinging the bat pretty well,” OIT coach Greg Stewart said, adding that it's nice to finally play at home.
“I hope the weather is good,” he said.
The early forecast is for temperatures in the upper 50s, cloudy and dry.
Doherty is coming off a weekend effort for which she was named NAIA Region I Player of the Week, while the Hustlin' Owls' Jenni Bittle was named regional Pitcher of the Week.
Big weekend
Doherty went 7-for-16 and hit two home runs and a triple, drove in eight runs and scored seven in the Owls' 3-0-1 effort against Dominican of California.
Bittle pitched two complete-game wins, including a perfect game. In 14 innings, she allowed three hits, two unearned runs, struck out 14 and walked one.
OIT's week got better Wednesday when the first regular season poll of the year came out and the Hustlin' Owls moved up three spots and now are ranked No. 12 in the country.
The Owls were within 10 points of the No. 11 spot which is held by Vanguard.
When the conference season begins Sunday, the doubleheader at OIT will pit the defending league champion Owls against SOU, which was second in the league a year ago.
- Steve Matthies
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