Walk-Off Home Run Lifts No. 14 OSU Over Pacific

The Beavers (13-7) will face Liberty University on Thursday.

Senior Mia Longfellow hit a 3-run walk-off home run to lead OSU past Pacific, 3-2. Photo: OSU Athletics

HONOLULU - Mia Longfellow’s two-out 3-run seventh inning walk-off home run lifted the No. 14 ranked Oregon State softball team to a 3-2 victory over Pacific in Wednesday’s second game of the Hawaiian Airlines Spring Fling Tournament.

Longfellow sent the game-winning shot lofting over the 200-foot marker in right field.

The home run was the third of the season for the senior shortstop and couldn’t have come at a more opportune time.

Sophomore second baseman Paige Lowe reached base in the seventh on a bunt single and Stefanie Ewing got aboard after getting hit by a pitch, to set-up Longfellow’s home run.

Pacific (11-4) broke the scoreless game open in the top of the fifth inning when Jennifer Curtier hit a two-out 2-RBI triple over the out-stretched glove of Beaver rightfielder Dani Chisholm.

The Tigers scored a pair of unearned runs on the play.

Senior hurler Brianne McGowan (7-4) earned the complete game victory, while Pacific pitcher Chelsea Engle (4-4) suffered the loss after retiring 13 straight batters until Lowe’s bunt single in the seventh.

The Beavers (13-7) will face Liberty University on Thursday at 4:00 PM PST and then will meet Hawaii at 8:00 PM PST

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