BOX SCORE EUGENE – A trio of players hit home runs to highlight a 16-hit attack in the first game, and Corban finished off a suspended contest with a victory Tuesday afternoon as the Warriors swept two non-conference softball games from Northwest Christian at James Park.

The Warriors won the regularly scheduled first game, 15-11, before finishing off the final two innings of the suspended game with a 7-1 decision. Corban is now 6-2 for the season while Northwest Christian falls to 1-8.

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McCayla Hoffman hit a three-run round-tripper, Aubrene Blas clubbed a two-run homer and Kyrianna Sorensen added a solo blast as the Warriors won the regularly scheduled seven-inning game, 15-11.

The Warriors took an early 8-2 lead only to see the host Beacons score seven times in the bottom of the fifth inning. Samantha Gutwig came on in relief with a runner on base and one out, and she pitched the remainder of the game to improve her season record to 1-1. Gutwig allowed one run on one hit while walking two and striking out three in 3 2/3 innings of work.

The Beacons scored twice on two hits – including a RBI single by Jill Suratt – and a Corban error in the bottom of the first, but the Warriors tallied five times on six hits in the second inning and three more on just two hits in the third to take a six-run lead.

Sorensen and Lounette Jackson started the five-run second with consecutive doubles and Kylie Durre followed with a single to drive in Sorensen. An out and error later, Taylor Eilders bunted for a base hit, driving in Durre. Annie Owen followed with a run-scoring double, and Breonna Bejaran drove in the final two runs of the inning with a single.

Sorensen led off the third with a solo homer, Hoffman drove in a run with a double, and Blas added a sacrifice fly.

NCU scored a run in the bottom of the third on a double by Randi Kostner, and then took a 10-8 lead in the fourth, scoring seven runs on six hits and an error. Laynee Bevans knocked in the first two runs with a single, Kostner hit a single for the next run, and Parker Bonife cleared the bases with a three-run double. She then scored on a single by Suratt.

The Warriors responded with four runs in the top of the fifth to regain the lead. Blas hit her two-run homer in that inning, followed by a run-scoring single from Courtney Castronovo and a sacrifice fly from Jackson.

Northwest Christian got a run back in the bottom of the sixth to make it a 12-11 game, but in the seventh inning Hoffman hit her decisive homer with two outs to give Corban three insurance runs.

Kostner was 4-for-4 with three runs scored and two RBI, Bevan was 2-for-5 with two runs scored and two driven in, and Suratt had two hits and three RBI to lead NCU.

Owen and Sorensen both had three hits and Hoffman added two hits and four RBI to pace Corban.

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Jessica Slate finished off what she started back on Feb. 19, pitching the seven-inning distance and limiting the Beacons to one run on eight hits while walking two and striking out two. With the win, she improves her season record to 2-0.

After NCU plated its only run of the game in the top of the first, Corban struck for four runs on five hits in the second inning. Owen drove in a run with a single, Blas stroked a run-scoring double, and Bejaran finished the frame with a two-run base hit.

The Warriors added a run in the third inning when Sorensen hit a double and scored on a single by Raeann Dorcas, and the final two runs came in the fifth when Sorensen blasted a home run following a single by Jackson.

Corban finished the game with 11 hits including two each by Sorensen, Dorcas and Durre in the six, seven and eight spots in the lineup.

Bevan led the Beacons offense with two hits.

"The girls competed very well today and kept fighting even when NCU put some pressure on us and took the lead a couple of different times," Corban head coach Nathan Ohta said. "We had a couple of defensive miscues and NCU definitely took advantage of them, but I tell the girls all the time that if you hit the ball it will make up for a lot. The weather has kept us from being on the field much lately and defensively it showed a bit, but we have had plenty of time to get things dialed in offensively in the cages, and I am really pleased with how we have been swinging the bats."

The Warriors travel to Southern California during the first week of March to play doubleheaders on five consecutive days, starting with Vanguard University in Costa Mesa on March 3.