Trio of Clark softball players get hot over last 4 games

The Clark College softball team had the bats going in doubleheaders against Centralia and Grays Harbor last week.

The Penguins (5-13 overall, 3-7 NWAC South) pounded out 34 hits over the four games as they swept Centralia 7-2 and 4-2, and split against Grays Harbor, winning 9-2 and losing 11-7.

Union High grad Ashley Griffith, a sophomore third baseman for Clark, was a single shy of a cycle in the first game win over Centralia.

Over the four games, Griffith was 7 for 11 with three doubles, a triple, two home runs and nine RBI to bump her batting average to .364.

Hudson’s Bay grad Promise Bond, a Clark freshman, also had seven hits in the four games with four triples and seven RBI.

And Columbia River grad Gabriela Ventura, a sophomore, went 6 for 13 and scored seven runs.

This week: The Penguins have a pair of road trips scheduled to Salem on Wednesday to play Chemeketa and then to Coos Bay, Ore., on Friday to face Southwestern Oregon. Clark returns to Vancouver to play Mt. Hood in a doubleheader on Saturday at noon and 2 p.m.

Baseball

Record: 7-8 overall.

Last week: The Penguins split a pair of doubleheaders against Mt. Hood. On Saturday, Clark won 7-4 and lost 7-2 and then on Sunday, Clark had a 6-1 win and a 10-9 loss.

This week: Clark has its first NWAC West games of the season, taking on Tacoma in a pair of doubleheaders. Saturday is at Kindsfather Field in Vancouver (1 p.m. and 4 p.m.), and Sujnday is at Tacoma.

Track and Field

J’Quan Collins earned three top-five finishes, while Koynn Williamdyke, Max Ensinger, Wyatt Galipeau and Hayden Day also had top finishes as the Clark men placed fifth out of 11 teams in the Pacific Open at Forest Grove, Ore.

Collins, a Fort Vancouver grad, was third in the 200 meters with a wind-aided time of 22.06 seconds. He was fifth in the 100 (11.15), and third in the long jump (6.40m).

Ensinger, a Camas grad, was second in the 400 hurdles and fourth in the 110 hurdles.

Williamdyke finished second in the 400 in 49.41, Day was second in the high jump (1.86m), and Galipeau was fifth in the shot put (12.95m).

For the Clark women’s team, Sydney Allen was fourth in the 100, Emily Peabody was fourth in the 400, Vaughn Shimko fifth in the 5,000, Sarah Money fifth in the 100 hurdles, Dani Buttrell fifth in the 3K steeplechase, Lucille Ware fifth in discus, and Nico Field third in high jump as the Penguins were seventh out of 12 teams.

This week: The Penguins will compete in the Jenn Boyman Memorial Invitational on Saturday at Linfield University in McMinnville, Ore.