CALDWELL, Ida. – For anyone looking for an example of how to wipe the slate clean between one game and the next, the UBC Thunderbirds (11-7, 6-5) provided a perfect example on Friday. The road warriors shook off an 11-3 loss to the College of Idaho Yotes (14-4, 8-3) in the first game of their weekend series and walked away with a 10-3 win less than two hours later.

Shae Sever was the star of the second outing, as she both recorded the win on the mound while also being the team's top batter. She pitched 3.2 innings in relief, surrendering as many hits as she herself recorded at the plate (three), and allowing just two runs while tallying four RBIs.

The Thunderbirds served the Yotes – ranked No. 20 in the NAIA rankings – their first loss since February 28th, snapping an 11-game win streak that stretched through the first half of the day's doubleheader.

 
GAME ONE

That 11th win in a row for the Idaho outfit started out a little slow, as neither team scored in the first two innings and recorded just one hit combined. That all changed in the bottom of the third, when the Yotes broke the game open with a three-run homer from Lolo Walker that helped put her side up 4-0.

The T-Birds responded in the fourth with an offensive outburst that began when Marin Jorgenson came home on a fielder's choice. Then with two outs, Keona Nordquist singled to right to bring home another run. A couple batters later Clare VanSpall walked with the bases loaded to make it a 4-3 ballgame, but UBC was unable to bring home any extra runs after that.

They were made to pay for leaving three runners on base, as the Yotes notched four runs in the bottom half of the inning to fully re-establish control. The home team's pitching locked in as well, denying the T-Birds a hit for the rest of the game.

 
GAME TWO

The second game of the day could not have been more of a different story, as the T-Birds scored in five of the seven innings en route to a comfortable blowout win of their own. In addition to Sever, three other UBC players recorded multiple hits in this one – Nordquist, Jorgenson and Jessica Heutink.

Kaitlyn Eng and Sever got the party started with back-to-back RBI singles in the second, before UBC got three more runs in the third and fourth off of a Heutink RBI groundout, a Kennedy Ainge bases loaded walk and a Casey Lo sacrifice fly.

The Yotes got a pair on the board in the bottom of the fourth to make it 5-2, but the T-Birds kept their foot on the gas. Sever got the biggest play of the day by punching a three-RBI double in the sixth to put the game well and truly out of reach.

The big win snapped a four-game losing skid for the T-Birds, all away from home against nationally-ranked opposition. The final pair of contests on their 15-game road trip are on Sunday in a rematch doubleheader against the Yotes.

The first game of the day starts at 11:00 a.m. (PT), before the two teams face off for a final time at 1:00 p.m. (PT). The second game of the day will not count in the Cascade Collegiate Conference standings.