After beginning the Tremendous Regionals with two dramatic wins, the Clark Faculty baseball group noticed its season finish with a pair of losses to Umpqua on Friday in Roseburg, Ore.
The Penguins opened the Tremendous Regionals on Thursday with an elimination sport, beating Yakima Valley 4-3 in 10 innings.
Morrie Solam drew a bases-loaded stroll to tie the sport within the ninth earlier than Kaiden Hernandez hit a walk-off single within the tenth. Evan McGuire pitched 5 2/3 innings of scoreless reduction, permitting simply two hits and putting out 4.
That arrange a best-of-three collection towards Umpqua, the Northwest Athletic Convention’s South Area runner-up and Tremendous Regional host.
Clark received the opener 3-1 on Thursday. Quentin Anguay went 2 for 4 together with an RBI single that put the Penguins forward 2-1 within the sixth inning. Andrew Israel went 3 for 4 and singled house an insurance coverage run within the seventh.
That was sufficient run help for Taylor Langworthy and Rylan Taguchi, who mixed to carry Umpqua to simply 4 hits.
Nevertheless it was Umpqua’s pitchers who dominated on Friday because the Riverhawks scored a pair of 3-0 wins.
Umpqua ace Sam Coffman improved to 7-1 in Friday’s opener, holding Clark to a few hits over six innings. Penguins starter Kenneth Corridor went the space, permitting simply 5 hits.
Within the decisive Recreation 3, 4 Clark pitchers allowed simply three hits. However the Penguins had been hobbled by six errors, together with miscues that allowed runs to attain within the sixth and seventh innings.
Umpqua’s Jordan Lennartson tossed a whole sport, permitting simply 4 hits because the Riverhawks secured one in all eight berths to the NWAC Championships this weekend in Longview.
Clark (21-23) reached the postseason for the third consecutive 12 months.
Softball
Final week: The Penguins put up a combat earlier than falling 12-11 to Clackamas in an elimination sport on the NWAC Championships on Thursday at Portland’s Delta Park.
No. 16-seeded Clark trailed 5-0 after the primary inning, however battled again with three runs within the second and two within the third.
Clackamas, the No. 9 seed, pulled again in entrance 9-5 with a grand slam within the fourth inning. However Clark responded when Evergreen Excessive grad Zoey Mikkelson hit a three-run house run within the fifth.
Mikkelson added to her five-RBI day with a two-run double that gave the Penguins a 11-10 lead within the prime of the sixth. However Clackamas pulled even within the backside of the sixth and received on a walk-off floor ball within the seventh.
Clark opened the event with a 13-0 loss to top-seeded Decrease Columbia. The Crimson Devils went on to win their eleventh championship, going 48-0 to turn into the primary group in NWAC historical past to go undefeated.
Monitor and Area
This week: The Clark women and men can have a number of contenders for titles on the NWAC Championships on Monday and Tuesday at Mt. Hood Faculty in Gresham, Ore.
