FOREST GROVE, Ore. – Returning to Northwest Conference play after a two-week break, the Puget Sound Loggers fell in both ends of a NWC doubleheader with the Pacific Boxers on Saturday in Forest Grove, Ore.  In the first game, the Boxers earned a 12-4 win while Miranda McNealy pitched a no-hitter in the second game as Pacific won 10-1.

In the first game, the Loggers got on the board first as Aryn Grause (Corvallis, Ore./Crescent Valley) hit a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the first to score Carolyn Moore (Seattle, Wash./Holy Names).  The Boxers answered right back with three in the bottom of the inning and then one more in the second inning to take a 4-1 lead.

The Loggers added another run in the third as Grause singled to right field to score Moore again as the Loggers cut the gap to 4-2.  Pacific added two more runs in the bottom of the third and then put the Loggers on the ropes in the fourth with five runs on six hits.

Grause picked up her third RBI in the fifth as an RBI triple scored Megan Janes (Littleton, Colo./Arapahoe) and then Brianna Huber (Chico, Calif.) hit a sacrifice fly to score Grause.  Pacific ended it in the sixth with a home run that invoked the eight-run rule that gave the Boxers the 12-4 win.

In the second game, the Loggers held the Boxers scoreless through the first frame but Pacific blew the game wide open with six runs in the second and four more in the third as they took the 10-0 lead.  The Loggers got a run in the top of the fourth, taking advantage of some Pacific miscues.  The lone Puget Sound score came on a fielding error with Grause at bat as Moore was able to score from second.

Neither team plated a run the rest of the way as McNealy collected the five-inning no-hitter in the 10-1 Pacific win.

The Loggers' weekend won't get any easier on Sunday as they head to McMinnville, Ore. for a pair against 16th-ranked Linfield.