Snow tosses shutout, No. 13 Storm sweep Penguins

8-0 in 5 innings followed by 14-10 slugfest in windy conditions

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SAINT GEORGE - Mattie Snow (Tooele, UT/Tooele High School) tossed a complete game three-hitter in the first game of a Pacific West Conference doubleheader Saturday against Dominican University to lead No. 13 ranked Dixie State to a sweep, 8-0 (5) and 14-10.

Snow struck out seven in five innings in the run-rule shortened contest. She pitched four and one third no-hit innings, walking three as she cruised to the victory.

The Storm pounded out 13 hits in the opener, including three hits for Courtney Hine (San Dimas, CA/San Dimas High School) and Siera Phillips (Mesa, AZ/Red Mountain High School). HIne added two RBI and Phillips had two triples and three RBI. Anna Cue (Murrieta Valley, CA/Murrieta Valley High School) and Courtney Sherwin (Mesa, AZ/Red Mountain High School) each added two hits.

In the second game, DSU knocked around 18 hits and survived allowing six errors to hold on for victory. Autumn Woodfall (Kaysville, UT/Davis High School) had 4 RBI off the bench.

After jumping to dominating the first three innings by leading 10-0, the Red Storm kicked the ball around committed six errors over the final four frames that allowed just four of the Penguin runs to become earned.

Starter Michelle Duncan (Gilbert, AZ/Gilbert High School) struck out three, but walked six that forced her to vacate the circle early and allow Kate Coffey (Fallon, NV/Churchill County High School) to come in and secure the victory for the Red Storm.

With the score tied at 10-10, the Penguins retired the first two DSU batters, but Kristie Johnson (Temecula, CA/Chaparral High School) tripled to right center and Kyle Bufton followed with an RBI single to right center that gave DSU the 11-10 lead. Hine followed with a deep infield single to shortstop and Woodfall worked her magic with a 2RBI double off the left center field fence. She just missed a home run by two feet. Cue capped off the Red Storm scoring with and RBI double to center field.

Coffey improved to 1-1 and had four strikeouts in relief of Duncan.

Sherwin, Johnson and Bufton each had three hits and three RBI. While Woodfall, Hine, Anna Cue (Murrieta Valley, CA/Murrieta Valley High School), each added two hits.

The Red Storm improve to 11-4 overall and 2-0 in the PacWest, while Dominican drops to 4-8 overall and 2-0 in the PacWest.

Dixie State hosts Notre Dame de Namur next Saturday March 2 at 12:00 pm at Karl Brooks Field.

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