KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. – Tara Moates had 8 RBI as Oregon Tech improved to 7-1 in Cascade Conference play with a doubleheader sweep of the UBC Thunderbirds 11-0 and 7-0 Friday afternoon at the OIT Softball Complex. 

Oregon Tech improved to 12-11 on the season with UBC dropping to 4-11 overall and 4-4 in CCC play. UBC will travel to Ashland, Ore. to play No. 16 Southern Oregon with the first pitch scheduled for 11 a.m. 

Game 1
Tech's Tara Moats had three hits and four RBI and Anne-Marie Guischer picked up her sixth win of the season as Oregon Tech earned the shutout victory 11-0. UBC had five hits in the five-inning run rule shortened game, including a pair from left fielder Paige Harbord (Delta, B.C.).

OIT scored three in the first inning, followed that with four in the second, and put the Thunderbirds away with three runs in the third and one more in the fourth on a Sadie Birch home run. 

Game 2
Ali Graham pitched seven shutout innings allowing just two hits with three strikeouts. Oregon Tech pounded out 12 more hits including home runs by Ali Graham (4), Moates (5), and Alyssa Davis (2). 

Tech once again jumped out early, scoring a run in the second inning, before adding three in the third on the Moates blast.

It stayed 4-0 until the bottom of the sixth when Davis led off the inning with a towering shot over the left field fence to put OIT up 5-0. The Owls would scratch across two more runs on an error and a pair of singles by Sydni Scott and McKenzie Shrum to take a 7-0 lead into the seventh. Graham retired the Thunderbirds in order to pick up her second consecutive win, both by shutout, to improve to 4-6 on the year. 

UBC had a pair of hits in the game, from centre fielder Shayla Kaplen (Richmond, B.C.) and second baseman Quinn Dhaliwal (Delta, B.C.)