Cody Rice’s two-out single in the bottom of the ninth gave the Clark College baseball team an 8-7 victory over Chemeketa in the first game of an NWAC South Region doubleheader on Saturday at Kindsfather Field.
The Penguins’ sophomore third baseman had hit a three-run home run in the bottom of the eighth inning to tie the game at 7-7.
Rice also doubled in the seventh and finished 3 for 5 with four RBI.
Chemeketa rallied late in the second game to beat Clark 7-5. Trailing 4-1 going into the sixth, Chemeketa scored five in the sixth and added one more in the seventh.
Clark got one run back in its half of the seventh on Bryce Roesch’s single, but the Penguins stranded two runners on a popup and groundout to end the game.
Roesch was 2 for 4 with a solo home run. Ben Wagner was 2 for 3 with a double and triple.
Clark (11-6, 3-2) takes on Clackamas next week. The Penguins travel to Clackamas on Tuesday and Saturday, and host the Cougars at 1 p.m. Friday in a doubleheader.
Softball
LOWER COLUMBIA 15-5, AT CLARK 5-3 — The Red Devils from Longview took a pair from the Penguins in Vancouver on Saturday.
In the first game of the NWAC South Region doubleheader, Clark had a 5-1 lead after the second inning before LCC scored the next 14 runs to end the game after five innings.
Mary Schorn was 2 for 3 with a triple and three RBI for the Penguins.
In the second game, Clark was down 3-2 before tying the game with a run in the fifth inning.
LCC (14-6, 6-2 NWAC South) scored twice in the sixth to retake the lead. Clark tried to rally in the bottom of the seventh by getting two runners on base with two outs.
Shaz Nakoa-Chung walked and Chloe Blehm singled, but LCC pitcher Nizhoni Wheeler struck out Brooklyn Ochoa for the final out.
Schorn and Blehm were each 2 for 4 with an RBI for Clark.
The Penguins (4-11, 2-6) next host Chemeketa at 3 p.m. Tuesday, and then Southwestern Oregon at 3 p.m. Wednesday.
