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March 25, 2006 Lacey, WA --- Seattle hit a combined six home runs on Saturday in sweeping a Great Northwest Athletic Conference softball doubleheader from Saint Martin's by scores of 5-2 and 8-1 at Saints Field. The Redhawks (13-9, 3-1 GNAC) needed nine innings before winning game one. SU sensation Jane Purdy drove in two runs in the top of the ninth inning to lead the late charge to take game one. Seattle led 2-0 after two innings. The Saints (3-19, 1-6 GNAC) then tied the game in the third as Katee Nauert (Fr., Mead, WA) stole home and Alicia Fuchs (So., Randle, WA) had a RBI single. The game then remained tied until the ninth when Seattle loaded the bases on a hit batter, walk and error and then got a run on a walk. Purdy then singled for a pair of insurance runs. Carleen Lessard (Jr., Longview, WA) pitched the complete game for the Saints and took the loss allowing four earned runs with six walks and five strikeouts on five hits. Erin Kemper started game one and allowed two runs on five hits in 3.2 innings before Erin Martin came in and finished the game allowing two hits with five strikeouts in 5.1 innings for SU. In the second game, Purdy hit a pair of solo home runs and three other SU players all went deep to account for all but two of the Redhawks runs. Saint Martin's scored its lone run in the seventh as Courtney Cunningham (Fr., Benton City, WA) led off the inning with a double, advanced on a ground out and scored on an error. That was the only run Erin Martin gave up on the day in 12 innings. In the opener, she pitched the final 5 1/3 innings, allowing two hits and fanning five to record the victory. She pitched a six-hitter in the nightcap, improving to 8-4, fanning six and walking just one. For the Saints, Tana Lingl took the loss allowing seven earned runs on 12 hits in five innings.
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