The North Platte Community College Knights softball team swept a doubleheader over the Hastings College Junior Varsity Lady Broncos by scores of 9 – 4 and 9 – 6 at the Wayne Dowhower Memorial Softball Complex on Tuesday.

In game one, the Knights jumped out to an early 2 – 0 lead on a single by Jessica Jarvis, a double by Sara Villalobos and a single by Tara Crouch in the first inning.  The Knights added to their lead in the third when Crouch doubled to bring in Shannon Lieber and Mehana Chang to make the score 4 – 0.

The Lady Broncos were held at bay during the first three innings by Lieber.  Lieber during the first three innings allowed no runs and no hits.  She had two strikeouts and four ground balls hit back to her for four assists.

In the fourth the Lady Broncos got on the scoreboard by scoring three runs in the inning.  Alexis Grimmett drove in Denae Anderson on a double. Alexis Ferguson drove in Grimmett and Allie Matousek on a double

to cut the Knight lead to one, 4 – 3.

The Knights added to their lead in the fourth by scoring three runs.  Jarvis reached on an error, Villalobos walked and Lieber walked to load the bases.  Sara Runia singled to drive in Jarvis and Villalobos. Lieber scored on a single by Chang.

The Knights added two more runs to make the score 9 -3.  Caroline Motis singled, advanced to second and then on to third on two passed balls.  Motis scored on a single by Brittney Odum.  Odum scored on a single by Villalobos.

The Lady Broncos scored one run in the sixth on a home run by Grimmitt.

Lieber pitched seven innings, allowed four runs on six hits.  She struck out seven batters for the win.

In game two, the Lady Broncos started the scoring by scoring two in the top of the first. Denae Anderson scored on a sacrifice fly by Jamie Oligmueller. Matousek scored on a single by Grimmett.

Villalobos reached base on an error and scored in the bottom of the first on a double by Runia.

The score remained at 2 – 1 until the bottom of the third when Lieber scored on a ground out to the second baseman by Odum to make the score tied at two.

Motis scored in the fourth to give the Knights the lead on a ground out by Jarvis.  Villalobos doubled to score Tara Crouch to take the lead 4 – 2.

The Lady Broncos retake the lead 6 – 4 on runs by Oligmueller, Ferguson, Katie Johnson  and Maddie Gudenkauf in the top of the fifth.

Chang homered to lead off the bottom of the fifth to cut the Lady Bronco lead  to 6 – 5.  The Knights take the lead 7 – 6 on a double by Jarvis to score Odum and Motis.

The Knights scored two more runs in the bottom of the sixth to seal the game on solo home runs by Odum and Runia.

Runia pitched 4.2 innings and allowed six runs.  Baileigh Oleson came in and pitched a hitless fifth, sixth and seven innings to get the win

The Knights move to 13 – 19 on the season,

The Knights have a break and will not take the field again until they host Region IX Division II foes Central Community College on April 10 and Southeast Community College on April 11.

The games against Central are at 3 p.m. and 5 p.m..  The games against Southeast are at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.  All times are CDT.

The games can be heard on ESPN 1410 radio and on the web at www.northplattepost.com. They will be live streamed on www.coachesaid.com.