VANCOUVER – The UBC softball team established a school record for runs in a single inning Monday afternoon. The Thunderbirds put 15 runs across the plate in the third inning of the series finale at Chaminade to earn a 16-2 triumph.

The win allowed the T-Birds to earn a split of the four-game set after an 8-0 loss in Game 1 Monday. Chaminade is 3-4 on the season while UBC is 2-2. 

The 15 runs were also just two shy of the NAIA record of 17 set by College of Idaho in 2007.  

Game 1

The T-Birds trailed 4-0 before surrendering four runs in the sixth inning to conclude the game. Avery Hilpert, Cassa Courtney, Michaela Moore, and Shelby Kempel got the hits for UBC. It was the first career hit for the rookie Kempel.

Game 2

The Thunderbirds trailed 2-1, with Gabby Freer knocking in a run with a single to the shortstop, before unleashing an offensive output in a single inning never before seen in the program's history.

Sierra Sherritt began the proceedings in the top of the third with a ground-rule double to left field. Mia Valcke singled up the middle to bring home Sherritt, and scored on the next play on an error to put UBC up 3-2, giving the team a lead it wouldn't relinqish.

The runs kept coming for the Thunderbirds. Moore knocked a single through the left side to plate starting pitcher Damara Begin to make it 4-2. Moore got to second on a wild pitch and came home on the next play, an RBI single by Kaia Gyorfi. Next up was Nicole Salas, who singled home Gyorfi and got to second on the throw. Logan Bailey hit a one-strike pitch down the right-field line for an RBI when Salas touched home plate to make it 7-2.

Two batters later, Taylore Jones hit a single through the right side for UBC's sixth-consecutive hit, which also scored Bailey.
 

Facing a new hurler, Sherritt came to bat for the second time in the inning, and walked on four pitches.

Valcke and Begin were hit by pitches on consecutive at-bats, forcing Freer and Jones home, respectively to increase the UBC advantage to 10-2.

The Silverswords made another pitching change but Moore continued the hit parade with a two-RBI double to left centre to plate Valcke and Sherritt. Gyorfi was then hit by a pitch to reach base.

Salas knocked a two-RBI single through the left side to make it 14-2, before Bailey singled to load the bases.

An ensuing wild pitch allowed Gyorfi to score while Salas advanced to third base before touching home plate on a fielding error by Chaminade's catchee for the final two runs in the inning for the Thunderbirds, batted around twice without an out being recorded.

The hosts managed to record three outs against the next four UBC batters.

In total, UBC scored 15 runs on 11 hits and three errors, leaving two on base in the inning. Sherritt and Valcke came to the plate three times.

There was no more offence in the contest, and the T-Birds finished the run-rule triumph in five innings to earn the series split.

Bailey finished the game with three hits, while Freer, Moore, Salas, and Valcke contributed two apiece. Moore and Salas recorded three runs batted in to lead UBC offensively.

Begin pitched three complete innings to improve to 2-0.

The Thunderbirds will wind up their trip to Hawai'i with a neutral-site doubleheader against Marymount California of the Golden State Athletic Conference.