GAME NOTES
 

• The Snow College softball team will head north to take on No. 12 Salt Lake Community College in a four-game series this weekend in Taylorsville.  Game one of the series will begin Thursday at 1:00 p.m. with Friday's game scheduled to start at 12:00 p.m.

 

• The Badgers are coming off a 1-3 weekend against the No. 15 College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls.  Following the four-game series, the Badgers dropped to 19-10 overall and 8-4 within the Scenic West Athletic Conference.

 

• The four-game series with the Bruins will be the Badgers' penultimate road series of the season.  Due to a scheduling change earlier in the season, the Badgers will play all five of their home series following the matchup with the Bruins.  They will terminate their season in a road series against Colorado Northwestern Community College in Rangely.

 

• Ayden Fitch led the Badgers offensively over the weekend against the Golden Eagles.  She went a combined 7-11 (.636/.667/1.273) with a pair of homers, a double, and drove in seven RBIs.

 

• As a team, the Badgers hit nine home runs in the series against CSI.  Hallie Young also hit two homers as she went 4-10 (.400/.500/1.100) from the plate over the weekend.  The Badgers have hit a total of 28 home runs this season led by Kamryn Allen, who has seven.

 

• The Badgers remain one of the nation's best teams at hitting extra-base hits.  They rank 14^th overall as a team in extra-base hits including ninth in doubles with 67 and 12^th in triples with 14.

 

• The Bruins are coming off a four-game series in which they swept Utah State University Eastern.  SLCC scored a total of 51 runs and outscored the Eagles by an average of nearly nine runs per game.

 

• The Badgers are 10-100 against the Bruins since 2010.  They have defeated the Bruins just twice since 2019 and are just 1-12 against them in their last 13 meetings.  The Badgers' lone victory against SLCC last season was a 13-2 win in Taylorsville.

 
UP NEXT: The Badgers will play its first home series of the weekend as they take on Colorado Northwestern Community College Friday and Saturday in Ephraim.  The Spartans are winless this season after beginning the year with an 0-22 overall record.  The Badgers are 92-7 all time against CNCC and have won each of the previous 33 meetings between the two teams.  Friday's doubleheader will start at 1:00 p.m. with Saturday's twin bill slated for a 12:00 noon first pitch at the Snow College Softball Complex.  For video streaming and live stat information, visit snowbadgers.com.
 
LAST TIME OUT: The Snow College softball team collected one victory in a four-game series against the No. 15 College of Southern Idaho over the weekend.  The Badgers earned a 14-10 victory in game four of the series to avoid the sweep.
 
Snow College was coming off a four-game sweep against the College of Southern Nevada the previous weekend.  With the victories and a 7-1 start to Scenic West Athletic Conference play, the Badgers entered the matchup with the Golden Eagles atop the conference standings.
 
It was a Tasia Shibuya double in the first inning of game one that opened the scoring.  CSI quickly turned things around putting up three runs in the bottom of the inning to take the lead.  Hallie Young singles and plated Brenley Boydston in the second inning as the Badgers cut into the deficit.  The Golden Eagles added a run in the fourth inning and would go on to earn the 4-2 victory.
 
CSI took the first lead of game two with a pair of runs in the opening frame.  Another Golden Eagle tally in the fourth inning preceded a run from the Badgers in the fifth as Dailee Maughan drove home Ayden Fitch.
 
A two-run homer in the bottom of the fifth inning gave the Golden Eagles a 5-1 lead.  The Badgers cut the four-run lead in half as both Fitch and Boydston singled to drive in runs, but the comeback was thwarted, and Snow College suffered a 5-3 defeat.
 
The Golden Eagles pounced on the Badgers early and scored two runs in each of the first two innings to begin game three. Fitch and Hailey Mangum started the fourth inning off with back-to-back homers to trim the lead to 4-2.
 
Hadlee Walker also blasted a homer in the fifth innings, but the Golden Eagles put up a trio of runs in both the fourth and the fifth innings to take a 10-3 lead.  A Young homer and a two-RBI single from Fitch in the seventh inning wasn't enough as the Badgers suffered the 10-6 loss.  
 
The Badgers surrendered two runs in the second inning of game four but turned the game around in the third inning.  The first five batters of the inning had hits including a leadoff double from Shibuya and a single from Hadlee Walker.  Kamryn Allen drove home a run on an infield single before both Fitch and Young doubled to plate three more as the Badgers took a 4-2 advantage.
 
CSI recaptured the lead with three runs in the bottom of the third, but the Badgers matched it in the top of the fourth. Shibuya drove home two runs on a home run to center field while Allen singled and drove home walker two batters later.
 
The game continued to teeter-totter as the Golden Eagles scored three runs in the bottom of the fourth.  Reata O'Neal led off the fifth inning with a homer before Allen blasted a three-run shot to left field to give the Badgers an 11-8 lead.
 
Following a two-run bottom of the fifth from CSI, Young led off the sixth inning with a homer to left.  Fitch capped off the series with a two-run home run in the top of the seventh inning to give the Badgers a 14-10 victory.
 
Fitch led the way for the Badgers offensively as she went 7-11 (.636/.667/1.273) while hitting two homers, driving in seven RBIs, and scoring four runs.  Walker went 6-13 (.462/.533/.769) with two extra-base hits, including a home run, and scored five runs.