CLAREMORE, Okla. (April 24, 2017) – Katera Eltsosie's back-to-back grand slam home runs in game one and Addison Ard's three home runs on the day help the Lubbock Christian University Lady Chaparrals complete the series sweep of Rogers State 11-3 and 12-3 Monday at the Diamond Sports Complex on the RSU campus in Claremore, Okla.
 
BEHIND
The Lady Chaps (33-15) got behind early with Rogers State (27-22) jumping on the scoreboard in the first inning scoring two runs when Hillcat first baseman Taylor Santistevan singled down the right field line two score Harli Wheeler and Kenzi Lloyd. RSU added another run in the third inning when Lloyd was safe at home on a double-steal attempt to go up 3-0.
 
GRAND (x2)
With only one hit through the first four innings the Lady Chaps got eight hits in the final two innings of play. In the fifth inning Lindzi Clemmer got the Lady Chaps on the scoreboard with a sacrifice fly to center field to score Casey Ingram. Then with the bases loaded Katera Eltsosie jacked a ball over scoring herself along with Sara Ralston, Courtney Medina and Sydney Beuthien. Addison Ard immediately followed with a solo-shot to put LCU up 6-3. In the sixth inning Medina drove in Ingram prior to Eltsosie coming up again with the bases loaded to hit her second grand slam home run of the game in as many at bats to complete the scoring with the Lady Chaps up 11-3.
 
IN THE CIRCLE
Monique Garcia (10-6) started in the circle for the Lady Chaps and went the distance allowing three runs off six hits striking out seven Hillcats on way to her 10^th victory this season. Edie Fairchild (3-3) got the start for Rogers State pitching 5.1 innings giving up 10 runs on seven hits while walking six to suffer her sixth loss of the year. Mayra Helguera came in to get the final two outs giving up a run on two hits.
 
LONG BALL
In game two the Lady Chaps scored four runs in the first inning, the first coming when Beuthien doubled down the left field line off the third base bag to drive in Medina. Eltsosie would hit a sacrifice fly to right field to plate Ingram. Addison Ard followed with a home run to left field before Haley Hardison drove in Clemmer. In the second inning Beuthien hit a solo bomb over the center field fence to add another run and a sacrifice fly in the third inning off the bat of Logan Grado scored Ard to put LCU up 6-0.
 
MORE BOMBS
The Lady Chaps scored three more runs in the fifth inning to go up 9-0 when Ard led off the inning with a shot over the left field fence that cleared the outer fence of the complex went over the road and ended up in the pasture across the street. Averi Miller doubled to score Adelae Vayas and Medina drove in Miller. LCU would allow the Hillcats to score three in the bottom half of the fifth to keep the game going. In the sixth Eltsosie hit a solo blast over the left field fence to put LCU up 10-3. Then in the seventh Eltsosie hit a shot to right center field to score Beuthien from first base before Ard's hit to right field brought Eltsosie home to complete the scoring.
 
CIRCLE
Katlyn Holmes (7-4) started for the Lady Chaps in the circle going 4.2 innings allowing three runs off four hits striking out four to notch her seventh win of 2017. Eltsosie came in to throw the final 2.1 innings not giving up any runs on one hit striking out three more Hillcats. Edie Fairchild (3-4) got the start for RSU and went the distance giving up 12 runs off 17 hits walking six to fall for the fourth time this year.
 
NOTEABLES
Eltsosie's back-to-back grand slam home runs are a first for the LCU as no other Lady Chap has ever had two grand slams in the same game, much less in back-to-back plate appearances. Her eight runs-batted-in for the game set a Heartland Conference single-game record for the most in a game this season and ties her for the LCU single-game record set by Kim Frazier back on February 19, 2010 against Graceland University and is the fifth most runs produced in a single game this season in all of NCAA Div. II.
 
LONG BUS RIDE
The Lady Chaps will hit the road again next weekend for the long bus ride down to hot Laredo, Texas to face the Dustdevils of Texas A&M International in the final series of the regular season where the forecast calls for game time temperature to be in the triple digits. You can catch all the action at www.lcuchaps.com.