UW fastpitch faces CWU in Selah return||

YAKIMA — The queens of the Pacific-10 diamond are returning to Selah this fall.

The University of Washington fastpitch team will be making its annual trek to Selah’s Carlon Park Sept. 25-26.

The Huskies, who won the 2009 College World Series and the past two Pac-10 championships, will play defending GNAC champion Central Washington on Saturday, Sept. 25.

The Wildcats are coming off their first conference title and postseason berth.

The game is scheduled for 11 a.m. That night there will be a fundraising dinner and auction at the Selah Civic Center starting at 6.

The Huskies will host two clinics Sunday, Sept. 26, the first from 8:30-10:30 a.m. and the second starting at 11 a.m. and lasting until 1 p.m.

Players can sign up for the clinics at www.washingtonsoftballcamps.com. For more information about the dinner and auction or to purchase tickets, call Bill Harris at 509-961-5588.

ELLENSBURG, Wash. — Already part of the program’s most memorable moments, Mallory Holtman on Friday was named the head coach of the Central Washington fastpitch team.

Holtman becomes the program’s third head coach since it began in 1993. Nancy Katzer coached the Wildcats for two seasons before Gary Frederick took over and led the program for 16 years.

Western Oregon's Sara Tucholsky is carried around the bases by Central Washington's Liz Wallace, left, and Mallory Holtman after injuring her knee following her home run during their softball game Saturday April 26, 2008, in Ellensburg, Wash. With two runners on base and a strike against her, Tucholsky uncorked her best swing and did something she had never done, in high school or college. Her first home run cleared the center-field fence. But it appeared to be the shortest of dreams come true when she missed first base, started back to tag it and collapsed with a knee injury. (AP Photo/Blake Wolf)

As a Wildcats player in 2008, she and teammate Liz Wallace earned national recognition when they helped Western Oregon’s Sara Tucholsky around the bases after she hit a home run but suffered a knee injury when she missed first base and went back to tag it.

The display of sportsmanship won the “Best Moment” ESPY at ESPN’s annual awards show in 2008.

Last year, as a graduate assistant coach, she helped guide the Wildcats to their first postseason berth.

“I am excited to remain in Ellensburg and to be a continued part of Central softball,” Holtman said in news release from the school. “I have been proud to be a part of the success that has been created over the past seven years with this program, but I also look forward to leading this program into the future.”

Holtman set several CWU records and capped her career by being named the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Player of the Year honors in 2008. She is one of only two players in GNAC history to earn first-team all-conference honors four times.

She batted .365 for her career with school records in home runs (35), RBI (128) and hits (206).

“Mallory is a rising star in the sport of softball,” CWU athletic director Jack Bishop said in the release. “She has been the face of this program for quite a long time now.”

ELLENSBURG — After coaching Central Washington University’s softball program for all but two seasons in its 18-year history, Gary Frederick has resigned as head coach, ending a multi-sport coaching career that spanned over 40 years.

The 72-year-old Frederick lifted the program to its two best seasons in 2009 and 2010, earning Great Northwest Athletic Conference Coach of the Year honors each of those seasons.

“I have enjoyed my many, many years coaching at Central,” Frederick said in a CWU release. “I would like to remain active with the program in any way that I can. I am still healthy and still love coaching.”

The Wildcats set a school record for victories in a season with 33 in 2009, and then broke that mark with a 40-15 campaign and the program’s first-ever conference championship this past spring.

Frederick, a 1959 Central graduate, was far more at CWU than just the softball coach. He spent 11 seasons as the head baseball coach (1968-1978), 11 more seasons as the head women’s basketball coach (1982-1993), served as the school’s athletic director from 1980 to 1999 and was also an assistant football coach for 17 years.

ELLENSBURG, Wash. — Central Washington’s Dani Monson and Kelsey Haupert have earned All-American status for their performances during the Wildcats’ historic fastpitch season.

Monson, a senior center-fielder, was a first-team selection on the Louisville Slugger/NFCA Division II squad. Haupert, a junior corner infielder, made the Daktronics, Inc. D-II All-American second team.

The NFCA teams are selected by a committee from the National Fastpitch Coaches Association. The Daktronics squads are chosen by sports information directors.

Monson batted a school-record .511 with a D-II record 40-game hitting streak from her leadoff position and Haupert hit .353 wtih school records of 18 homers and 65 RBI.

Central won the GNAC championship and, in its first playoff performance, finished second in the West Regional tournament last weekend in Hawaii.

ELLENSBURG, Wash. — Central Washington’s Lauren Hadenfeld, Kelsey Haupert, Dani Monson and Samantha Petrich have been named to the Daktronics Division II All-West Region fastpitch first team.

The foursome led Central to the best season in the program’s history, finishing 40-15 and reaching the West Region playoff finals.

Haupert, a junior third baseman-first baseman, was named Player of the Year while Hadenfeld, another junior, was Co-Pitcher of the Year.

Haupert hit .353 with 18 home runs and 65 runs batted in. Hadenfeld was 24-6 with a 2.26 earned run average. She pitched seven shutouts and had a region-best 207 strikeouts.

Monson, a senior center fielder, batted .511 with a Division II-record 40-game hitting streak. She hit safely in 48 of 52 games before being on the forearm with a pitch that ended her season in the regional tournament.

Petrich, a junior shortstop, batted .382 with 16 homers, 16 doubles and 64 RBI.

PREP BASEBALL/FASTPITCH

WIAA makes ticket offer to youth

The WIAA is presenting an offer to fans 12 and younger for next week’s state baseball championships and Class 3A and 4A fastpitch championships.

Each paying adult may bring up to five youth baseball or softball players for free admission providing the youngsters wear a team uniform, shirt or hat and bring a WIAA coupon.

The coupons are available on the WIAA Web site.

The offer is good next Friday and Saturday, May 28-29, for Class 4A and 3A baseball at Safeco Field, Class 2A and 1A baseball at Yakima County Stadium, Class 2B and 1B baseball at Parker Field and Class 4A and 3A fastpitch at SERA Fields in Tacoma.

Other state softball is not included due to space limitations at the host venues.

KANEOHE, Hawaii — On the brink of elimination all weekend, the Central Washington fastpitch team came up one victory short at the NCAA Division II West Region tournament on Sunday.

The Wildcats needed nine innings to defeat Hawaii Pacific 3-2 in Sunday’s first game, forcing a decisive afternoon matchup with the Sea Warriors in the double-elimination tournament.

In the regional championship game, the Wildcats fell 1-0.

In the opener, Lauren Hadenfeld set a school record with her 24th victory.

Lifting Hadenfeld to that victory were RBI from Kelsey Haupert, Jennifer Schwartz and Meghan Kopczynski.

Central Washington finished the season 40-15, a school record for most victories in a campaign.

Hawaii Pacific advances to the super regional, where it will host Chico State in a best-of-three series next weekend.

Game 1

Central Wash.    100    001    001    —    3    9    0
Hawaii Pacific    000    200    000    —    2    8    1
Hadenfeld and Kopczynski; Musquiz and Morrow.
CWU highlights: Kelsey Haupert 2-4, RBI; Jennifer Schwartz 2-5, 2b, RBI; Taylor Trautmann 1-1, 3b; Samantha Petrich 1-4 2b; Meghan Kopczynski 1-4, RBI.

Game 2

Hawaii Pacific    100    000    0    —    1    6    0
Central Wash.    000    000    0    —    0    6    0
Musquiz and Morrow; Hadenfeld and Kopczynski.
CWU highlights: Petrich 1-2, Keilani Cruz 1-3, Haupert 1-3, Schwartz 1-3, Daunell Root 1-3, Trautmann 1-4.

KANEOHE, Hawaii — Surviving two elimination games Saturday, Central Washington will meet Hawaii Pacific today for the NCAA Division II West Region title.

Central needed eight innings to defeat Hawaii Hilo 2-1 in its first game Saturday, and then got a three-hit shutout from Lauren Hadenfeld in a 2-0 victory over Cal State Monterey Bay in a second loser-out game.

Today, the Wildcats (39-14) get a rematch with Hawaii Pacific (43-6), which beat Central 6-1 in Friday’s opening round. Hawaii Pacific needs to win just once, while Central must win twice in order to claim the region title.

Central started Saturday’s play at Okita Field by clipping Hawaii Hilo on Megan Kopczynski’s single through a drawn-in infield in the bottom of the eighth. Samantha Petrich led off the inning with a double, Kelsey Haupert walked and both moved up on Ashley Fix’s sacrifice bunt.

It was Kopczynski’s second hit of the game. Jennifer Schwartz also had two hits and drove in Central’s first run.

Hadenfeld earned the victory, allowing six hits in going the distance. She walked one and struck out four.

She was even sharper in the second game, scattering three singles and one walk, while striking out eight.

Central did all its scoring in the fifth against Monterey Bay, capped by Haupert’s two-run double, part of a 3-for-3 game for the third baseman.

Central 2, Hawaii Hilo 1 (8)

Hawaii Hilo    100    000    00    —    1    6    3
Central             010    000    01    —    2    7    3
Weisskopf and Schatz, Hardy (7); Hadenfeld and Kopczynski.
Highlights: Lauren Hadenfeld (CWU) 4 Ks; Megan Kopczynski (CWU) 2-4, RBI; Jennifer Schwartz (CWU) 2-3, RBI; Samantha Petrich (CWU) 1-4, 2b, run; Michelle Torre (CWU) 1-3, run.

Central 2, CS Monterey Bay 0

Central                        000    020    0    —    2    5    1
CS Monterey Bay    000    000    0    —    0    3    3
Hadenfeld and Kopczynski; Ortiz and Olds.
Highlights: Hadenfeld (CWU) 8 Ks; Haupert (CWU) 3-3, 2 2b, 2 RBI; Carrina Wagner (CWU) 1-3, run; Schwartz (CWU) 1-3; Kellani Cruz (CWU) run.

KANEOHE, Hawaii — Central Washington’s fastpitch postseason debut was not successful Friday, with third-ranked Hawaii Pacific riding Sherise Musquiz’s three-hitter to a 6-1 victory in NCAA Division II West Region play at Okita Field.

The Wildcats (34-7) must now win four consecutive games to claim the title. Their next test will come today against Hawaii Hilo (42-6).

Musquiz struck out three and walked one, improving to 26-1 for the season. She held CWU hitless until the fifth inning when Ashley Fix’s single was followed by Meghan Kopczynski’s double which scored the Wildcats’ lone run.

Against Central ace Lauren Hadenfeld (21-5), the Sea Warriors got an RBI single from Maile Kim in the first and a two-run homer, also from Kim, in the second.

Hadenfeld’s nine-game winning streak was snapped, as was CWU’s 13-game success skein.

Central Wash.    000    010    0    —    1    3    9
Hawaii Pacific    102    003    x    —    6    9    0
Hadenfeld, Reime (6) and Kopczynski; Musquiz and Morrow.
CWU highlights: Keilani Cruz 1-3, Ashley Fix 1-3, run; Meghan Kopczynski 1-2, 2b, RBI.

INDIANAPOLIS — The Central Washington fastpitch team learned who it will play against and where on Monday as the NCAA Division II Softball Championship field was announced.

The GNAC champion Wildcats (37-13 overall) are the No. 8 seed and will travel to Kaneohe, Hawaii, to face top-seeded Hawaii Pacific University (41-6) in the opening round Friday at 4:30 p.m. Pacific time.

Joining the two teams in the regional are Cal State Monterey Bay (32-18) and Hawaii Hilo (35-14). The other four-team West regional will be played in Rohnert Park, Calif.

The regional tournament is a double-elimination format, with the winners of each of the regionals squaring off in a best-of-three super regional May 21-22.

Central faced two of the three regional opponents in the regular season, defeating both Hawaii Pacific (3-0) and Cal State Monterey Bay (5-0) at the Tournament of Champions in Turlock, Calif., in March.

The Wildcats are arguably the hottest team in the West region, having won 13 consecutive games to end the regular season. Central boasts one of the top offenses in Division II, batting .348 with 50 home runs, led by senior centerfielder Danielle Monson and junior infielders Samantha Petrich and Kelsey Haupert.

Monson batted a conference- and school-record .522 during the regular season, including a Division II record 40-game hitting streak.

Petrich (.401, 16 HR, 64 RBI) and Haupert (.351, 18 HR, 62 RBI) combined for 34 home runs and 126 runs batted in.

Petrich’s current RBI total is a single-season record for both CWU and the GNAC.

In the pitching circle, Central boasts one of the top pitchers in the region in junior Lauren Hadenfeld, who went 21-4 with a 2.39 earned-run average and 187 strikeouts in 1611/3 innings. Senior Katriina Reime was 7-0 with four saves and a 2.31 ERA.

SPOKANE — Central Washington outfielder Danielle Monson and pitcher Lauren Hadenfeld have been selected the GNAC Softball Player of the Year and Pitcher of the Year as the Wildcats nearly made a clean sweep of the special awards on the GNAC all-star team.

Dr. Gary Frederick, who coached Central Washington to a school-record 37 victories, was selected GNAC Coach of the Year and CWU first baseman Kelsey Haupert was voted the Newcomer of the Year.

The only award that eluded the playoff-bound Wildcats was the Freshman of the Year award, which went to Joslyn Eugenio of Saint Martin’s.

Central Washington led the all-star selections, placing five players on the first team and one on the second team. Two of its first-team selections — Monson and Hadenfeld — were unanimous. Turn to Page 2B for a complete list.

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Prep Golf

West Valley’s boys golf season will continue as the team had five players earn a spot in the regional tournament Friday at Spokane’s Wandermere Golf Course.

The Rams’ Eric Gravbrot, a junior, captured Player of the Year honors for the CBBL’s 3A Classification, edging out Scott Kim of Hanford. Gravbrot will be joined by seniors Kameron Lamb, Steven Snipes and Jerrod Daily, and sophomore Matt Mickelson.

Nathan Espinoza of Sunnyside also finished in the top 12 and earned a spot.

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CBBN

GIRLS

At Wenatchee, par 72

Team scores: Richland 356, Hanford 392, Wenatchee 405, Eastmont 410, West Valley 426, Kamiakin 430, Eisenhower 437, Chiawana 446, Southridge 457, Moses Lake 459, Pasco 465, Kennewick 478, Davis inc., Sunnyside inc.

Eisenhower: McKenzie Bond 97, Cortney Munson 99, Adrienne Jensen 116, Melanie Stevenson 125, Stefanie Tanasse 127.

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CWAC

GIRLS

At Mount Adams, par 72

Team scores: Ellensburg 473, Wapato 488, Toppenish inc.

Medalist: Ruby Lopez (W) 103.

Ellensburg: Jessica Schademan 107, Alex Gumeson 116, Autumn Grassel 126, Taylor Canini 124.

Wapato: Jaylene Gomez 104, Michelle Baluca 129, Darlene Baluca 152.

Toppenish: Vikki Sergura 107, Erica McGee 152.

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Non-league

INLAND EMPIRE TOURNAMENT

At Spokane CC, par 72

Team scores: Coeur d’Alene 309, Mt. Spokane 312, Lewis & Clark 314, Clarkston 317, Kamiakin 324, Mead 324, Southridge 327, Walla Walla 327, Richland 332, Moses Lake 337, West Valley-Yakima 340, Central Valley 341, Ferris 343, Colville 353, Eastmont 353, Gonzaga Prep 355, Shadle Park 356, East Valley-Spokane 363, Pasco 363, University 369, Wenatchee 369, Deer Park 375, Chiawana 379, Kennewick 389, NC 404.

Top 10: 1, Riley Hayfield (Kam) 72; 2, Garrett Howard (Fer) 73; 3, Tyler Carlson (Cl) 74; 4, Alex Pounds (Coe) 74; 5, Hunter Kraft (Coe) 74; 6, Cole Lorenzo (Ri) 75; 7, Peter Gullickson (LC) 76; 8, Peter Williams (LC) 76; 9, JM Larson (LC) 77; 10, Evan Dyar (Md) 77.

West Valley: Kamerson Lamb 79, Eric Graubrot 81, Kameron Schmidt 89, Mike Bradley 91, Bryce Gowt 92.

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Prep Fastpitch

North Central 2B

KITTITAS 5-22, PATEROS 3-2: At Pateros, Dallas Maupin pitched two complete games, giving up five runs and nine hits combined while striking out 22 total batters for the Coyotes (14-0, 19-0) as they finished league play undefeated.

Maupin also helped herself offensively, going 6-for-8 with a double, home run, five runs scored and four RBI for the day.

Kayvonne Vaver went 5-for-7 with a triple, four runs scored and four RBI combined for Kittitas.
Game 1

Kittitas    400    100    0    —    5    7    7

Pateros    000    100    2    —    3    3    4

Maupin and Calahan; Richardson and Kesci.

Highlights: Kayvonne Vaver (K) 2-3, 3b, run, 2 RBI; Dallas Maupin (K) 3-4, 2b, run, 14 K’s; Jordyn Hudson (K) 2-4, run.

Game 2

Kittitas        534    19    —    22    17    2

Pateros        101    00    —    2    6    7

Maupin and Calahan; Richardson, Gill (4) and Kesci.

Highlights: Sareena Calahan (K) 2-3, 2 runs, 2 SB; Vaver (K) 3-4, 3 runs, 2 RBI; Jorean Paul (K) 2-4, 2 runs, RBI; Maupin (K) 3-4, HR, 4 runs, 4 RBI, 8 K’s.

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CWAC

OTHELLO 18-18, TOPPENISH 0-0: At Othello, Miranda Martinez went 5-for-7 with four RBI combined for the Huskies (14-2) as they swept Toppenish in a CWAC league doubleheader.

Eden Garza went 2-for-3 with a triple, a homerun and six RBI in the first game for Othello, and Daisy Salgado went 3-for-4 with three RBI in the second game.
Game 1

Othello        860    04    —    18    12    1

Toppenish        000    00    —    0    1    5

Garza and Martinez; DJ A. and Darian A.

Highlights: Kylee Mollotte (O) 3-3, RBI; Kim Bullis (O) 2-2, RBI; Miranda Martinez (O) 2-3, 2 RBI; Eden Garza (O) 2-3, 3b, HR, 6 RBI; Brenda Rodriguez (O) 2B.

Game 2

Othello        (10)24    20    —    18    10    0

Toppenish        000    00    —    0    1    5

Rodriguez and Martinez, Montemayor (3); Amber J. and Darian A.

Highlights: Martinez (O) 3-4, 2 RBI; Daisy Salgado (O) 3-4, 3 RBI; Kim Bullis (O) RBI.

MONMOUTH, Ore — Central Washington tuned up for its first-ever playoff appearance Saturday by sweeping Western Oregon 12-1 and 1-0 in GNAC play.

The Wildcats, who concluded their regular season with 13 straight wins, will learn where and who they’ll play Monday morning when the NCAA Division II sites and pairings are announced.

Samantha Petrich hit a pair of two-run homers in the first game. Lauren Hadenfeld pitched a three-hitter with five strikeouts to improve to 21-4.

In the second game, Lindy Baxter pitched a one-hitter and Ellensburg’s Meghan Kopczynski hit a second-inning homer.

Leadoff hitter Dani Monson went a combined 4-for-6 to finish with a .522 batting average.

CWU finished its conference-championship season 32-8 in the GNAC and 37-13 overall.

Game 1

Central Wash.    602    22    —    12    9    0
W. Oregon            001    00    —    1    3    0
Hadenfeld and Kopczynski, Carter (5); Lessard, Albrecht (3), White (4) and Little.
CWU highlights: Dani Monson 2-3, 2 runs; Samantha Petrich 3-4, 2 HR, 4 RBI; Meghan Kopczynski 1-1, run, 3 RBI; Michelle Torre 1-2, run, RBI.

Game 2

Central Wash.    010    000    0    —    1    6    0
W. Oregon           000    000    0    —    0    3    1
Baxter and Kopczynski; Wood and Bogardus.
CWU highlights: Monson 2-3; Kopczynski 3-3, HR, RBI.

Wildcats sweep W. Oregon, grab first postseason berth ||

MONMOUTH, Ore. — They’re in.

Central Washington’s fastpitch team earned the program’s first playoff berth in style Friday, riding Lauren Hadenfeld’s one-hitter to a GNAC title-clinching 2-0 win over Western Oregon in the first game of a doubleheader.

The championship assured the Wildcats an NCAA Division II playoff berth.

For good measure, Central won the second game 5-3, extending its school-record winning streak to 11 games.

Hadenfeld struck out five and walked none while improving her record to 20-4. Dani Monson was 2-for-4 and drove in the only run Hadenfeld needed.

Monson and Samantha Petrich had two hits apiece in the second game, with Petrich doubling and driving in three runs.

Lindy Baxter and Katrina Reime combined to scatter nine hits for Central, which improved to 30-8 in conference play and 35-13 overall.

Central began its four-game series with the Wolves with a two-game conference lead, and thus needed only one win to secure the title.

The D-II tournament field, including site hosts and pairings, will be announced at 7 a.m. Monday.

Monson, a senior from Marysville, raised her season hit total to 92, breaking the previous conference record of 88.

Pitching, power, Ichiro-like leadoff hitter lead Central to a school-record 33 wins ||

YAKIMA, Wash. — They had struggled mightily through their first 17 years, posting just three winning records. And the first, in 2004, was accomplished by the barest of margins at 22-21.

This year, center-fielder Dani Monson’s batting average (.518) is higher than that season’s won-lost percentage (.512). And Central Washington’s fastpitch Wildcats, 33-13 to date, need but one win in their final four games to secure the first playoff berth in school history.

Central Washington’s Lauren Hadenfeld pitches earlier this season during a game in Ellensburg. (Photo courtesy of CWU Sports Information)

“Sometimes things just come together,” mused 72-year-old Gary Frederick, who’s in his 16th season at the program’s helm, “and you get a group of players who overcome your coaching. These kids have a very relaxed approach and do things before a game that I would never have allowed when I was coaching baseball here.

“But whatever works.”

What has worked for the Wildcats, big-time, has been the infusion of several new players to a core of returnees from last year’s 33-20 squad, many of whom have dramatically elevated their games.

Witness Monson, a cat-quick, 5-foot-2 senior leadoff hitter who has been clocked at 2.69 seconds from batter’s box to first base.

“She’s a slapper,” Frederick said. “She’s like Ichiro, she bats left-handed, gets the ball on the ground and is just very difficult to throw out.”

As evidenced by an NCAA Division II-record 40-game hitting streak — four short of the all-divisions mark — and a school-record on-base percentage of .544.

Last year, Monson hit .326.

CWU’s Dani Monson is hitting .518 this season, highlighted by an NCAA Division II-record 40-game hitting streak. (Photo courtesy of CWU Sports Information)

Another key has been pitcher Lauren Hadenfeld, a junior transfer from Mount Hood Community College. Needed to replace 2009 ace Linse Vlahovich, who was 23-8 with a 2.16 earned run average, Hadenfeld is 19-4 with a 2.53 ERA and 14 complete games.

“I wasn’t planning on playing after Mount Hood,” she said, “because I’m working on a mechanical engineering degree and I just wanted to focus on school. But our coach at Mount Hood is really good friends with one of the girls on this team, Christyne Alley, and she — excuse my language — annoyed the hell out of me about playing. So I am, and obviously I’m glad.”

Pitching is obviously the most crucial element in fastpitch, but it’s nice to also have power. And Central has gotten that, times two, from third baseman Kelsey Haupert and shortstop Samantha Petrich.

Haupert, who initially went to Purdue out of Black Hills High School, was found by Frederick at South Puget Sound Community College in Olympia.

“We heard she might want to play again,” he said, “and I’ll tell you, she’s the real deal. She can miss a pitch and still knock it out. The ball jumps off her bat.”

To the tune of a school-record 18 home runs (four more than Mallory Holtman hit in 2006) and a school-record 61 RBI (17 more than Holly Rossman produced in 2009) to go with a .368 average.

“At Billings,” Frederick said, “their field pretty much abuts a sheer cliff. With the wind blowing hard left to right, Kelsey (a right-handed hitter) hit a ball that went at least 50 feet beyond the fence and probably 40 feet up that bank.”

Petrich, a transfer from Lower Columbia College, has 14 homers, 57 RBI and is hitting .405 while scoring a team-record 53 runs.

In all, nine Wildcats are hitting better than .300. The team average is .354, its on-base percentage is .413 and the slugging mark is .515.

No wonder Central has won nine straight after going 2-2 during an early-April series at Northwest Nazarene. At 28-8 in GNAC play, the Wildcats are two games up on second-place Western Oregon going into their four-game set that starts Friday on the Wolves’ field.

They also have broken 10 single-season team records, five single-game records and nine single-season individual marks.

“We lost Linse, who won 23 games last year,” Frederick said, “and we lost Holly Rossman and Liz Wallace, who drove in 95 runs. At the start of the season, I didn’t think we had the players to pick all that up.

“These kids, obviously, have proven otherwise.”

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BILLINGS, Mont. — Central Washington hit six home runs in the first game of a 14-8, 13-3 doubleheader sweep of Montana State Billings, and then equaled the school’s single-season record for victories in the second game Sunday at Cenex Stadium.

Central charged out to a 7-0 lead in the opener, keyed by Samantha Petrich’s grand slam — one of her three homers in the game — followed by a blast by Kelsey Haupert.

Petrich and Haupert would hit back-to-back homers again in the sixth inning, which also featured a three-run homer from Carrina Wagner.

In the second game, Central did its scoring in bunches — five runs in the third inning and six more an inning later.

Haupert matched her game one performance with two homers in the second game.

Of CWU’s 17 hits, three of them were by senor Danielle Monson, who tied a GNAC single-season record with 88 hits. Monson also added four RBI.

Central improved to 33-13 on the season and 28-8 in the GNAC, tying the school’s wins record that it set last spring when CWU went 33-20.

Game 1

Central Wash.    005    206    1    —    14    20    2
MSU Billings       000    026    0    —    8    11    2
Hadenfeld, Reime (6) and Kopczynski. Trenary and Parsons, Smith (5).
CWU highlights: Ashley Fix 4-4, RBI; Kelsey Haupert 3-4, 2b, 2 HR, 2 RBI; Michelle Torre 3-4, 2b; Samantha Petrich 3-5, 3 HR, 7 RBI; Danielle Monson 2-4; Carrina Wagner HR, 3 RBI; Jennifer Schwartz RBI.

Game 2

Central Wash.        015    61    —    13    17    4
MSU Billings           010    20    —    3    4    0
Baxter, Reime (4) and Kopczynski. Grotbo and Parsons.
CWU highlights: Danielle Monson 3-4, 2b, 4 RBI; Meghan Kopczynski 3-4; Michelle Torre 2-3, 2b; Carrina Wagner 2-3, 2b, 2 RBI; Samantha Petrich 2-4, 2b, 2 RBI; Kelsey Haupert 2-4, 2 HR, 3 RBI; Keilani Cruz RBI; Jennifer Schwartz RBI.