Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 | Box Score 3 | Box Score 4 EPHRAIM -- The Snow College softball team got a much-needed sweep last weekend, taking all four games played at Colorado Northwestern Community College (CNCC) in Rangely. The Badgers won Friday's doubleheader by scores of 8-0 and 15-5, and then completed the sweep on Saturday by winning 16-1 and 6-2. The wins put Snow at 7-13 in the Scenic West Athletic Conference (SWAC) and keep the Spartans of CNCC winless in league play.

Badger first baseman Karlee Manzione, who leads the team with a .447 batting average, continued her hot bat collecting seven hits in 14 at-bats during the series. Her hits included three homeruns and a double while driving in nine runs. 

Shortstop Cassidy Anderson led off for the Badgers in each game and finished with seven hits and five walks in 12 at-bats. Anderson scored eight times and also drove in six runs in the series. BritLee Anderson finished the series with five hits in 16 at-bats and outfielder Kenzie Rasmussen collected five hit in seven at-bats. Outfielder Kayla Larson smacked a homer in the series opener on Friday, and BritLee Anderson, Rasmussen and Brooke Davis each had a pair of doubles in the Game 3 blowout win. Davis finished six for 14 in the series with five doubles and six RBI.

Riley Cox was exceptional in the circle for Snow, shutting out the Spartans in Friday's Game 1 on two hits while walking three and striking out four. In Saturday's opener, Cox limited the Spartans to only one unearned run on one hit with just one walk and five strikeouts.
The Badgers were shaky out of the gate in Saturday's Game 3 opener, failing to score in the top of the first and then committing two of the three errors they would commit in the entire series in the bottom of the first to give up an unearned run. CNCC's Abi Thompson led off the first with a single, eventually scoring on the two Badger errors, but Cox would not allow another baserunner other than a walk in the fifth inning. Snow would go on to score five times in the top of the second, four more times in the third and seven in the fourth to earn the 16-1 win.

Sophomore hurler Belle Stoddard picked up the other two wins for Snow, going four-and-a-third innings in Game 2 while striking out six before yielding to southpaw reliever Riley Cleverly who shut down the Spartans on no hits the rest of the way while striking out two.
The Stoddard and Cleverly duo was overpowering again in the series finale on Saturday with Stoddard going the first four innings for the win and Cleverly again relieving her in the fifth to earn a save. Together they held the Spartans to two runs on only four hits while striking out a season-high 13 batters and walking only one. The 13-strikeout performance, Stoddard with eight and Cleverly five, represents the highest single game total in the SWAC so far this year, surpassing four other games in which ten strikeouts have been registered.

The Badgers begin the second round through the SWAC this weekend, hosting second ranked Salt Lake Community College in doubleheaders this Friday and Saturday. Friday's first pitch will be at 1:00 p.m. and Saturday's doubleheader will begin at noon.