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SALEM, Ore. – In the second game of the 2013 Cascade Collegiate Conference Softball Championships, Corban's No. 8-ranked softball team was upset by The College of Idaho, 2-1, as the Warriors fell into the loser's bracket Thursday on Warrior Field.

Corban (39-12) would get a pair of hits from senior Brittany Chestnut, while four other Warriors – senior Stephanie Nippert, senior Erica Fitzgerald, senior Chynna Sandhop, and junior Courtney Castronovo – also tallied hits with Chestnut driving in the home team's lone run of the game. Senior Chelsea Schriber went the distance for Corban in the circle allowing two earned runs on nine hits to go along with three strikeouts.

The College of Idaho (32-21) was led offensively by a trio of Lady Yotes – Molly Mills, Alexis Macias, and Nickayla Skinner – with two hits each, while Mills and Macias drove in the runs for C of I. Mills would provide the game-winning run thanks to her seventh home run of the season, while Skinner went the distance for COI allowing one earned run on seven hits with a game-high four K's.

Corban had a chance to get on the board in the bottom of the first inning when senior Rachel Conard flew out to center field only to have C of I's outfielder throw Nippert out at home attempting to score the game's opening run.

In the top of the third inning, The College of Idaho would break the scoreless tie going ahead by a single run (1-0) when Macias laced a run-scoring single to left field that allowed Mills to score after she reached on a fielder's choice one batter earlier.

Two innings later, Mills would provide the much-needed insurance run when she belted a leadoff home run over the left field fence to give the visiting Lady Yotes a two-run lead (2-0).

In the bottom of the fifth inning, Corban would finally get on the board thanks to an infield single by Chestnut that allowed Sandhop to score pulling the Warriors within a single run (2-1). Corban would not quit there, as the Warriors loaded the bases on an infield single by Castronovo with one out only to have Nippert thrown out at home once again on a groundout to first base that kept C of I with a one-run lead.

Corban would not threathen for the remainder of the game, as C of I's pitching and defense stepped up to the challenge holding the Warriors without a base runner past first base over the final two inning.

The College of Idaho advanced in the winner's bracket to take on Oregon Tech, while Corban moves to the loser's bracket later today against No. 19-ranked Concordia beginning at 4:30 p.m. on Warrior Field in Salem.