The Linfield junior varsity scored early and often as the Wildcats held off the Lower Columbia College -- LCC, a two-year institution in Longview, Wash. -- Red Devils, 7-3, in nonleague women’s softball on Thursday in McMinnville, Ore.
According to The Daily News of Longview, LCC trailed 5-0 after four innings.
In the fifth, the Devils scored three runs, highlighted by a two-run triple from Ashley Kelly.
In the fifth, the Devils scored three runs, highlighted by a two-run triple from Ashley Kelly.
The Wildcats added solo runs in the fifth and sixth innings.
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LCC athletics website says the teams played twice on March
24, with Linfield winning the first game, 7-3, and LCC winning the second, 8-6.
See game recap at link below and game photo above.
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Speaking of LCC:
--Linfielders Don Porter and Jack Riley were coaches and
athletic directors at LCC way back when.
--In the first game of Linfield’s varsity 1948 football season,
Linfield beat LCC 14-7 on LCC’s field in Longview. According to the Linfield
football record book, it was the only time Linfield’s varsity played LCC. It
was first game of Paul Durham’s storied career at Linfield head football coach.
See story below from Sept. 19, 1948, Sunday
Oregonian about the game.
