BOX SCORES – GAME #1 | GAME #2

PORTLAND, Ore. – Corban's magical season came to an end Saturday afternoon in the Cascade Collegiate Conference Championship Series following a pair of losses to the NAIA's No. 4-ranked Cavaliers of Concordia, 4-3 & 8-1, at Delta Park.

The Warriors concluded their record-breaking season at 24-23 overall marking the first winning season in program history. Meanwhile, Concordia punched its ticket to the NAIA Softball Championship improving to 34-5 this season.

Senior Rachel Kazmierski (Eugene, Ore.) belted her second home run of the season in Game #1, while freshman Tamara Feb (Oregon City, Ore.) accounted for the Warriors' other three runs on the afternoon with a pair of run-scoring singles in the first inning of each game.

Junior Makenzie Marchbanks (Sweet Home, Ore.) would suffer the loss in Saturday's opener allowing four earned runs on nine hits in a complete game performance that included four strikeouts. Meanwhile, sophomore Brittany Wagner (Oregon City, Ore.) was saddled with the loss in the finale allowing three earned runs on nine hits in 2.2 innings of work before turning the ball over to Marchbanks for the final 4.1 innings of the season.

GAME #1 – CONCORDIA 4, CORBAN 3

Needing just one win to advance to the program's first-ever NAIA Softball Championship, Corban came out in the opening inning of Game #1 and quickly took a 2-0 lead on a Feb RBI single through the left side that scored the all-conference duo of junior Jessie Jones (Gladstone, Ore.) and freshman Liane DeHart (Kent, Wash.).

Corban would extend its lead to three runs (3-0) in the bottom of the third inning when Kazmierski belted a two-out home run over the left field fence for her second long ball of the season and the Championship Series.

Unfortunately, Concordia did not let the Warriors' opening runs put an end to their magical season and scored three runs in the top of the fourth inning to tie things at 3-3 on a two-run single to center field by Mallory Callahan with two outs.

Concordia would score the eventual game-winning run in the top of the sixth inning when Callahan drove in her third run of the game via a RBI single to left field that scored Kyndell Andrews for a 4-3 Cavalier lead.

The host Warriors would register only one more hit in its final two at-bat, as a third and deciding game was needed to punch the conference's automatic ticket to the national championship tournament.

Senior Jessica Schell (Portland, Ore.) led Corban's offense with a 2-for-3 performance, while six other Warriors – Jones, DeHart, freshman Stephanie Nippert (Rocklin, Calif.), Feb, Kazmierski, and senior Jessica Pierce (Kennewick, Wash.) – registered a hit each in the loss.

Concordia got two-hit performances from Kayla Vickaryous, Callahan, and Andrews, while Danielle Pulfrey went the opening 3.0 innings for the Cavaliers allowing three earned runs on six hits before turning the ball over to CCC Pitcher of the Year Renee Santos for the game's final 12 outs.

GAME #2 – CONCORDIA 8, CORBAN 1

In a winner-take-all mid-afternoon game, Corban got on the scoreboard in the bottom of the first inning on a two-out RBI single to left field by Feb that scored DeHart following her single to right center and stolen base.

Unfortunately, Concordia's high-scoring offense was not shut out as the Cavaliers scored eight unanswered runs in the third, fourth, and fifth innings with the highlights coming off the bats of CCC Player of the Year Ali Paz and Cameron Way via back-to-back home runs in the fifth inning to cap the game's scoring.

Feb led the Warriors' offense with a 2-for-4 performance that included one RBI, while five other Corban players – Jones, DeHart, Kazmierski, Schell, and freshman Erica Fitzgerald (Beaverton, Ore.) – all registered hits in the season-ending loss.

Concordia would get a 4-for-5 showing from Way that included three runs scored and one RBI, while Santos went the opening 2.1 innings allowing one earned run on two hits before handing the ball to Pulfrey for the final 4.2 innings en route to picking up the win.

Corban's season comes to an end with the Warriors setting 10 single-season hitting records that includes highest batting average (.303), most at-bats (1,312), most hits (398), most runs scored (236), most doubles (67), most triples (11), most runs batted in (198), most total bases (589), most walks (132), and most stolen bases (95).

In the circle, the Warriors' pitching staff either tied or broke eight single-season records that includes lowest Earned Run Average (2.85), most complete games (33), most shutouts (5), most innings pitched (317.1), fewest runs allowed (174), fewest hit by pitch (12), fewest wild pitches (10), and fewest triples allowed (2).

The Warriors' 2010 season included a school-record nine-game winning streak heading into Saturday's Championship Series, while Corban also set the record for most wins in a single season with 24 breaking the 2004 inaugural team's previous mark of 20 victories. Head coach Nathan Ohta completed his third season at the helm of the Warriors and has compiled a school-record 58 victories in 127 games.