KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. – Oregon Tech put on a power display to close out a weekend series with Warner Pacific, hitting six home runs, including a school-record tying five in Game 2, as the Lady Owls completed a 4-game series sweep at Stilwell Stadium.
 
Tech (23-3, 8-1 CCC) rode a stellar start from Kristine Schmidt to a 9-0 win in Game 1, before the long ball led the hosts to a 10-3 victory in the late game.
 
Schmidt was outstanding in the opener, limiting WPU (10-12, 5-4) to two hits, striking out eight batters, in the four inning start. The junior tossed 11 shutout innings during the 4-game set.
 
OIT took a 2-0 lead in the second, as Hayden Rockwell doubled home a run and scored on a Gina Allen single, while Allen added a second RBI single and Sawyer Stenson gapped a run-scoring double to extend the lead to 5-0 after three innings. Addison Kachnik slugged a solo homer to start a 4-run fourth to put the game away.
 
Five players had 2-hit games – Allen, Kachnik, Rockwell, Nita Cook and Malia Mick – with Mick scoring three of the nine runs.
 
The Knights took a lead in Game 2, as Nikki O'Reilly lined a 3-run homer in the fourth inning to give the visitors a 3-1 edge. Tech answered in the bottom of the frame – tying the game on back-to-back homers from Kachnik and Puakea Milbourne, with Stenson and Leah Huffman ripping back-to-back doubles to give the Owls the lead.
 
OIT put it out of reach in the sixth, as freshman Maggie Pizano hit her first collegiate homer and Allen followed with her second home run of the game, pushing the lead to 10-3.
 
Jenna Gorden went the first four innings for the Owls, allowing just five hits for the victory, with four players – Allen, Milbourne, Stenson and Huffman all recording two hits.
 
O'Reilly was 3-for-3 in the loss for WPU.
 
The Lady Owls hit the road next weekend, heading to Canada for a first-place showdown at British Columbia.