Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 | Box Score 3 | Box Score 4 EPHRAIM – The Snow Lady Badgers split their series last weekend against the third-ranked Golden Eagles of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls. CSI won Friday's first game 9-8, with Snow taking the second, 4-2. The Badgers won Saturday's opener 5-4, and CSI took the finale, 15-13. Both CSI wins came on walk-off hits in the bottom of the last inning. 

In the series opener on Friday, Snow scored three times in the first and once in the second to take an early 4-0 lead. CSI tallied six runs in the bottom of the second, however, to take the lead and the Badgers fought back to try to get even again the rest of the game. Finally, in the seventh Emily Adams singled to bring home Emily Street to tie the game at eight. But a walk-off double by CSI's Marissa Johnson brought in the winning run with two outs in the bottom of the seventh to give the Eagles a 9-8 win.

Catcher Brooke Davis had a pair of doubles while going three-for-four and driving in three runs to lead the Badger attack. Street also finished three-for-four for Snow, and Kayla Larson and Kenzie Rasmussen both doubled as they each went two-for-four. Adams also finished two-for-four and scored three times for the Badgers. Johnson had a homer for the Eagles in addition to her game-winning hit and drove in three runs.

Freshman southpaw Riley Cleverly was brilliant in four innings of relief, giving up only one run on two hits, but both hits and the run came in the bottom of the seventh and Cleverly was tagged with the loss.

Friday's second game was a tense classic as Badger sophomore hurler Belle Stoddard battled CSI's ace Kelsey Christensen in a game that was scoreless until Snow's Karlee Manzione led off the fourth with a solo homer to left. The Badgers manufactured a pair of runs in the top of the six, scoring on a fielder's choice and a wild pitch, to stretch the lead to 3-0.

CSI finally got to Stoddard in the bottom of the sixth with Brytni Gurney hammering a two-run homer to bring the Eagles to within a run at 3-2. Cleverly again come on in relief and shut down the Eagles in the sixth, and after the Badgers scored an insurance run in the top of the seventh, shut them down again in the seventh to earn the save. BritLee Anderson had a pair of hits for Snow.

Snow took a 2-1 lead in the series winning Saturday's opener 5-4. The Badgers held a 5-1 lead going into the bottom of the fifth when Gurney hit a three-run homer off Snow starter Riley Cox to pull the Eagles to within one. But for the third time in three games Cleverly entered the game in relief and again the freshman lefty shut down the Eagles the rest of the way to get credit for the save.

Rasmussen was three-for-four with a double to lead the Badgers, while Davis had a pair of hits and Manzione doubled. Anderson drove in a pair of runs for Snow with a single.

The last game of the series was back and forth slugfest with the Badgers taking a 9-0 lead in the top of the third with a three-run homer by Anderson in the first and a two-run triple by Rasmussen in the second doing most of the damage. But CSI scored four times in the bottom of the third, three times in the fourth and twice more in the fifth to tie the score at nine. Adams homered for Snow in the sixth to put Snow back up by one, but Shea Ibrahim hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the inning, her nation-leading 22nd of the season, to put CSI back ahead, 11-10.

The seventh inning was more of the same as Snow scored on a single by Mariah Peterson which drove in Rasmussen before Larson doubled to drive in two more and put Snow ahead, 13-11. Again the third-ranked Eagles battled back scoring four times with two outs, the game winner coming on a three-run homer by Markii Ashton to end the game.

Rasmussen finished three-for-four for Snow with Anderson, Street, Larson, Adams and Cassidy Anderson each collecting two hits. BritLee Anderson drove in four runs and Larson drove in three for the Badgers.

In the series Rasmussen finished eight-for-16 with four doubles and four RBI. BritLee Anderson, Adams, Larson and Street each had six hits in the series, Anderson driving in eight runs and Larson stroking a pair of doubles and driving in four. Each team scored 30 runs in the series, while the Badgers had a total of 48 hits in the series to 37 for the Eagles.

The Badgers now return home to end the regular season with a pair of four-game series over the next two weekends. This week the Badgers host Western Nevada College (WNC) in a doubleheaders beginning at 1:00 p.m. on Friday and at noon on Saturday. WNC is currently in fourth place in the Scenic West Athletic Conference with a record of 13-18. Snow is right behind with a record of 10-22 and could overtake the Wildcats with a sweep. CSI sits in second place in the SWAC with a record of 25-6, a game-and-a-half behind first place, and nationally top-ranked, Salt Lake which is 27-5.