The Pacific University softball team dropped both games of a doubleheader to Whitworth on Friday in Spokane.

The Pirates (25-9, 19-5 NWC) took game one, 12-0 in five innings in game one and game two, 7-2. The loss drops the Boxers to 23-14 overall and 17-9 in the Northwest Conference.
 
Whitworth held the Boxers to just a Montana Vaught double in game one. The Pirates scored in every inning including a three-run first for the early lead. Whitworth had 13 hits including five-different players with two hits – Desi Graham, Rheanne Lewis, Kinsey McNaught, Michelle Silva and Maddy Thomas. Graham and Sara Gayer each had two RBI plus four of the top five batters in the lineup each accounted for two runs.
 
All the offense was ample support for Whitworth starter Drea Schwaier-Wolf, who went all five innings and striking out four to raise her record to 14-3. Pacific starter Cheyenne Datan went 1.2 innings, allowing five hits, five runs (four earned) in the loss to fall to 2-2.
 
The nightcap saw the Pirates break open a scoreless contest, plating two runs in the third inning. Then, they added to their lead with a five-run fifth before the Boxers got on the board with a run each in the sixth and seventh.
 
Katelyn Macatis-Smith had three hits and Kaitlynn Donaca added two more hits to lead an eight-hit attack for Pacific. Kinsey McNaught had two more hits to lead an eight-hit effort for Whitworth. Rheanne Lewis drove in a pair of runs for the Pirates in the win.
 
Boxers' starter Carly Bursch scattered six hits in a four-inning effort and striking out to fall to 4-3. Pirates starter Madelyn Carlson went all seven innings, allowing eight hits and striking out one in the win to improve to 10-6.

The two teams will wrap up the weekend series with another doubleheader on Saturday at noon in Spokane.