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April 23, 2006 Bellingham, WA --- Saint Martin's University suffered a sweep against Western Washington, 1-0 and 5-3, in a Great Northwest Athletic Conference softball doubleheader Sunday at Viking Field. The Vikings improved to 19-23 overall and 7-9 in league play. Saint Martin's dropped to 7-31 overall and 3-16 in GNAC action. In the first game, WWU’s Ashley Osman scattered five hits, struck out one, did not issue a walk and allowed just two Saints to reach second base. Tana Lingl (Jr., Auburn, WA) was the tough-luck loser for Saint Martin's. She gave up just four hits in 6-1/3 innings, striking out two and walking two. The game's only run came in the bottom of the seventh inning when Western's Devin Dykstra drew a leadoff walk, advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt and scored on a single to leftfield by Osman. Courtney Cunningham (Fr., Benton City, WA) was 2-for-3 for Saint Martin's. In the second game, Western took a 3-0 lead in the first inning. After Saint Martin's knotted the score at 3-3 with three unearned runs in the top of the fifth, WWU doubled in what proved to be the winning run in the bottom of that frame, eventually scoring on an error. Lisa Holombo (Fr., Bonney Lake, WA) got the loss for the Saints, going 4-2/3 innings, before being relieved by Lingl.
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