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Jackets Make Short Work of Beavers (Apr. 25, 2005)
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Game 2 Box Score

BILLINGS, MT – Montana State-Billings wasted little time in sweeping a non-conference doubleheader against visiting Minot State on Monday.  The Yellowjackets won the first game 3-0 in just an hour and ten minutes.  They followed up with an 8-0 win that lasted just over an hour to improve to 30-12 on the season. 

MSU Billings wraps up the regular season on Saturday and Sunday when the Yellowjackets host PacWest rival Western New Mexico for a pair of doubleheaders.  Saturday’s games start at 3:00 p.m. and Sunday’s begin at 1:00 at Cenex Stadium.  In the latest NCAA West Region poll, MSU Billings was ranked third and Western New Mexico was ranked tenth.  The Jackets will be trying to secure their first postseason berth in the program’s history.

The Jackets rode the right arm of Joey Ehnes (Great Falls, MT) in Monday’s first game.  The senior hurler struck out 14 while giving up just one hit in seven innings to improve to 23-9.  The Beavers’ Erica Cochrane broke up the no-hit bid with a dribbler up the middle in the second inning.

Minot’s Whitney Friesen was nearly as effective, scattering seven hits and three runs over six innings.  The three runs came courtesy of a pair of Yellowjacket home runs.  Theresa Campbell (Sr., Great Falls, MT) hit a two-run blast in the bottom of the fourth, driving in Rachel Quarnburg (So., Billings, MT) who had walked.  It was Campbell’s eleventh home run of the year. 

Sara Hanley (Sr., Kalispell, MT) capped the scoring with a leadoff homer in the bottom of the fifth.  It was Hanley’s first home run of the season.  Hanley was 1-for-1 in the game.  Campbell went 2-for-3, and Quarnburg was 1-for-2 with a walk.

The Jackets blew the second game open early after Beavers starter Brittany Mellors got herself in trouble with four walks.  MSUB plated two in the first and four in the second before ending the game via the eight run rule with two runs in the fifth inning.  Mellors gave up seven hits and eight earned runs in four innings. 

The Jackets’ Jordan Waverek (Sr., Kalispell, MT) earned the win to improve to 4-0.  She gave up just one hit and one walk in three innings.  Megan McCrae (Sr., Brandon, Manitoba) pitched the final two innings, allowing one hit.

Cami Rainey (Sr., Terreton, ID) led off the Jackets’ half of the first with a double to the fence in right center.  Two batters later Campbell hit her second home run of the day and her school-record twentieth of her career.

Aysha Blatter (So., Richland, WA) started the second inning barrage with a double to center.  Two walks later, Rainey hit a bases loaded double, driving in three runs.  She advanced to third on the throw to the plate and scored on an Ehnes sac fly on the next at bat.

After being held scoreless in the third and fourth innings, the Jackets struck quickly in the fifth.  Following a Theresa Campbell double to right center, Christy Wankel (Jr., Great Falls, MT) homered the opposite way to end the game.  It was Wankel’s fifth home run of the season and the Jackets’ league-leading 41st.

Campbell was 2-for-2 with two runs and two RBI.  Rainey was 2-for-3 with two runs and three RBI.  Wankel went 1-for-3 with a pair of runs batted in.

Notes:  With 14 strikeouts in Monday’s first game, Joey Ehnes has 255 strikeouts on the season.  She needs just six more to tie the single season school record of 261 which she set last year as a junior.  Her 623 career Ks are also a school record.  The next NCAA regional poll should be released on Wednesday (although some of the polls this year have been released on Thursdays).  The Jackets held a narrow edge on No. 4 San Francisco State for the third spot last week.  The Gators were 4-1 at last weekend’s tournament in Bakersfield, including an upset of second-

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