Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 ELLENSBURG, Wash (Apr. 13) – The Central Washington University softball team earned its third straight conference sweep, defeating Saint Martin's University 9-3 and 3-1 Saturday afternoon on senior day at Gary and Bobbi Frederick Field.
 
With the wins the Wildcats improve to 25-14 on the season with a 14-6 mark in Great Northwest Athletic Conference play, and clinched a birth in the GNAC tournament that starts on May 1 in Richland.  Saint Martin's fell to 20-17 on the season and 9-6 in the GNAC.
 
The bat of freshman first baseman Kailyn Campbell (Duvall, WA, Cedarcrest), who was 3-for-4 with six RBI, which is second most in school history, dominated game one.  Campbell had three singles in the game, each of which scored two runs.
 
The Saint's looked to be in control early, taking a 3-0 going into the bottom of the fourth inning.  Central Washington battled back scoring four runs in the third inning on one of Campbell's base knocks and a run scoring single by Andrea Hamada (Walla Walla, WA, Walla Walla).
 
From that point, senior pitcher Maria Gau (Woodinville, WA, Woodinville) put a stop the SMU offense as she won her 14th game of the season, and her fourth win this week.  She threw all seven innings to add to her school record of 61 complete games, giving up just one earned run and striking out two batters.
 
Campbell and Jill McDaniels (Walla Walla, WA, Walla Walla) sealed the deal in the sixth inning with both scoring runs on singles to give the Wildcats the final 9-3 advantage.
 
Saint Martin's would again strike first in game one, taking advantage of a throwing error to score one run in the top half of the first inning, but that is all the scoring senior pitcher Taryn Smith (Olympia, WA, Timberline) would allow the Saints have.
 
Smith pitched her also threw all seven innings, allowing five hits and did not walk a single batter to improve to 2-4 on the season.
 
Michaela Hazlett (Purcell, OK, Purcell) tied the game up at 1-1 scoring Campbell on a single through the left side of the infield.  It wasn't until the sixth inning that CWU added its final two runs on RBI singles by McDaniels and senior outfielder Jordan Zurfluh (Adna, WA, Adna).
 
Central Washington will next travel to Nampa, Idaho for a pair of doubleheaders against Northwest Nazarene in two weeks before competing in the conference tournament on May 1.