Softball: Lady Tigers take 2 of 3 in Susanville

Despite intermittent snow throughout the first day of the Susanville Tournament, the Douglas softball managed to get in three games.

Of those, the Lady Tigers picked up two big wins and battled two a late-inning loss against Oroville.

The snow ended up forcing the cancellation of Saturday's games.

"Many teams were only able to play 1 or 2 games," Douglas coach Andy Mitchell said.

Douglas opened the tournament with a 12-1 win over Lassen, pounding out 16 hits as a team.

Stephanie Harper struck out 11 and walked two in picking up her fifth win of the season.

Katrina Morgan cracked the team's first home run of the year and drove in three runs while Mackenzie Cauley belted a triple and drove in two runs of her own.

Emily Weaver and Lauren Hoppe each drove in two runs and Harper and Rebecca Trute each drove in one.

The Tigers dropped a 5-1 decision against Oroville in the next game as Oroville scored five runs in the top of the sixth.

Douglas bounced back with an 11-1 win over Shasta to close out the day.

Hoppe hit her 15th and 16th career home runs while driving in three, Morgan Blomstrom hit her first career home run with three RBIs of her own and Cauley drove her team-leading RBI total to 10 with a hit and two RBIs.

Weaver doubled and Trute tripled while senior pitcher Dorothy Sliva picked up her second win of the year, allowing four hits and striking out one.

Douglas improved to 7-2 overall on the year and took on Carson in a doubleheader Tuesday afternoon.