GAME NOTES
 

• The Snow College softball team will continue its longest homestand of the season as it takes on the College of Southern Idaho Friday and Saturday in Ephraim.

 

• Friday's doubleheader is scheduled to start at 1:00 and 3:00 p.m. with Saturday's game slated to begin at 12:00 and 2:00 p.m.  For video streaming and live stat information, visit snowbadgers.com.

 

• Snow College is coming off a four-game series against Salt Lake Community College in which the Badgers were swept.  Snow College was defeated 8-0 and 22-18 in Friday's doubleheader followed by 18-4 and 11-2 losses Saturday.  The four-game losing streak is the longest of the season for the Badgers.

 

• McCall Maxfield went 7-14 over the four games while hitting two homers, driving in five RBIs, and scoring seven runs.  Maxfield currently leads the team in runs batted in with 43 and is second on the team in home runs with eight.

 

• August Cowan reached base eight times in 13 at-bats going 6-13 with two walks.  She recorded two doubles, drove in four RBIs, and scored twice. 

 

• CSI enters the weekend matchup with a 25-12 overall record and a 13-7 mark within the Scenic West Athletic Conference.  Snow College defeated the Golden Eagles twice in a four-game series March 27-28 in Twin Falls.

 

• CSI as a team averages just under 10 runs per game and has a team batting average of .396.  The Golden Eagles are coming off a four-game sweep over Colorado Northwestern Community College in which they scored a total of 97 runs throughout the series.

 

• The Badgers are 27-83 all-time against the Golden Eagles dating back to 2010.  Snow College is 15-32 against CSI at home. The two teams have split their last ten meetings in Ephraim.

 
UP NEXT
 

• Snow College will travel to Price to take on Utah State University Eastern April 14 and 15.  This will be the first meeting between the two teams this season as their previously scheduled series was postponed due to weather conditions. 

 

• USUE is 18-9 overall on the season and 8-8 within the SWAC.  They are coming off a series split against the College of Southern Nevada and will head to Taylorsville this weekend to take on SLCC.

 

• The Badgers are 33-14 all-time against the Eagles and went 5-4 against the birds last season.  Friday's matchups will begin at 1:00 and 3:00 p.m. with Saturday's games to start at 12:00 and 2:00 p.m.  For video streaming and live stat information, visit snowbadgers.com.

 
LAST TIME OUT
 
The Snow College softball team was swept by No. 16 Salt Lake Community College over the weekend in Ephraim.
 
The Badgers entered the weekend coming off a series split against the College of Southern Idaho Monday and Tuesday in Twin Falls.  The games against the No. 19 Golden Eagles were make-up games for the four-game series that was postponed earlier in the season. After losing both games in Monday's doubleheader, the Badgers turned around and swept the two games Tuesday, winning 13-3 and 14-12.
 
The Bruins entered Friday's games atop the Scenic West Athletic Conference Standings with a 20-7 overall record and a 14-2 mark within SWAC play.  SLCC has won five games in a row including a sweep over the College of Southern Idaho in Henderson, Nevada.  
 
Snow College was shut out for just the third time all season in game one of the series.  The Badgers managed just five hits against Ephraim native and Manti High School Alum Tiffany Hermansen.  Hermansen pitched a complete game and struck out four while shutting out the Badger's offense.
 
Snow College's defense committed six errors in the field which led to six unearned runs.  Kaci Smith, who started inside the circle for the Badgers, didn't allow an earned run until the seventh inning. The Badgers would drop game one 8-0.
 
The second game of Friday's doubleheader was an extra-inning thriller.  Snow College opened up a 3-0 lead through the first two innings before SLCC scored four runs in the third.  The Badgers scored a run in the bottom of the inning on an August Cowan double to left center.
 
Both the Badgers and the Bruins traded blows in the fourth inning scoring six runs apiece to bring the score to 10-10.  Hadlee Walker blasted a three-run homer to bring the Badgers level again.  
 
SLCC's offense carried the momentum from the previous inning and scored six runs over the next two innings. Snow College entered the bottom of the sixth trailing 16-10. Andrea Sweat singled with the bases loaded to score a run, followed by a walk by Kiley Mitchell to score another run.
 
A pair of fielder's choices drove home two more when McCall Maxfield delivered the tying runs on a two-run homer to left field.  The seventh inning would go down scoreless, and the game entered extra innings, the first such game of the season for the Badgers.
 
After a scoreless eighth inning, the Bruins used a triple, an infield single, a home run, and a sacrifice fly to score six runs in the top of the ninth inning.  Snow College would respond with two in the bottom of the inning but could not overcome the deficit and would suffer a 22-18 defeat.
 
The bats for the Bruins continued their momentum into the first game Saturday scoring five runs in the first three innings before exploding for 11 runs in the fourth to take a 16-2 lead.  Snow College scored a pair of runs in the first and fourth innings before losing 18-4 in five innings via mercy rule.
 
The Bruins used another big inning in the series' final game as they won 11-2.  SLCC scored six runs in the third inning to take an 8-1 lead. They would add three more runs in the fourth before holding the Badgers quiet over the final two frames to earn the win.  
 
Maxfield paced the Badgers offensively as she went 7-14 over the weekend hitting two homers, driving in five RBIs, and scoring seven runs.  Cowan reached base safely eight times in 13 at bats totaling six hits, and two walks while driving in four RBIs.
 
Snow College (16-11/8-8) will continue its eight-game home stand as it welcomes CSI to town for a four-game series.  The Badgers will look to win three of four from the Golden Eagles over the weekend to win the season series against the flaxen birds.