FOREST GROVE, Ore. – This time around it was a much different story as the University of Puget Sound softball team fell twice to Pacific. When the Boxers (20-8, 10-6 NWC) visited Tacoma, the two teams split a couple of one-run games, but this time around the Boxers exploded for 18 runs with a 10-3 win early and an 8-0 win in the nightcap.
 
Christina Demuelenaere tallied three of the Loggers (7-18, 5-9 NWC) five hits on the day and scored all three runs.
 
Game 1 – L, 3-10
The Boxers jumped out to an early lead with four runs in the second inning. Brooke Toy smashed a three-run homer in the inning to highlight the scoring.
 
The homer broke a 1-1 tie after each team pushed across one run in the first frame. Demuelenaere knocked her first hit of the day in the top of the first and scored when Anthea Aasen grounded out. However, Lauren Tuey knotted the game up at 1-1 in the bottom half of the inning with an RBI-single for the Boxers.
 
Demuelenaere went on to score all three Logger runs in the 10-3 loss, scoring in the third and fifth. In the third she singled to center and walked in the fifth.
 
The Boxers continued to pour on the offense hanging up one more run in the third, three more in the fourth and one more insurance run in the fifth.
 
Game 2 – L, 0-8 (6 inns.)
The Loggers were held to just one hit in the nightcap as the Boxers broke away for a shortened 8-0 win. Demuelenaere tallied the Loggers lone hit in the first inning and was hit by a pitch in the sixth.
 
Auriel Sperberg had matched her counterpoint Chelsey Chamberlain from Pacific step for step until the sixth inning. Through the first five innings, Chamberlain had five strikeouts while Sperberg tallied seven Ks in the circle.
 
Chamberlain had allowed just one hit and the only other Logger reached base on an error while Sperberg had allowed two hits and issued two walks. No runner from either team had advanced past second base.
 
In the sixth, the Boxers bats exploded for eight runs on six hits to clinch the run-rule victory. Jordan Mittseldorff smashed a three-run homer to end the game.
 
The Loggers will travel to McMinnville, Ore. tomorrow for a doubleheader with Linfield.