EUGENE, Ore. – Freshman Brooke Davis (pictured, above) needed the final game of the season to get it done, but she finally broke through with her school-record eighth home run of the season on Friday. In addition, Brittany Robles (pictured, below) batted 4-for-6 on the day to bump her batting average to .384, claiming the all-time best single-season batting average crown. The Beacons finished the season with a pair of losses, dropping a double-header to Concordia, 6-5 and 13-5, despite holding leads in both games.

The Beacons scored three runs in the fifth inning of game one, which featured a two-RBI single by Megan Mazanec. Corrie Gustafson cranked a lead-off home run in the sixth, and the Beacons were cruising with a 5-2 lead. However, the Cavaliers rallied in the bottom of the sixth, manufacturing four runs on five hits to claim the victory.

Davis (6-11) took the loss for NCU, striking out a pair of batters and allowing 11 hits in six innings. Mazanec and Robles each had two hits for the Beacons and Jonni Byrne went 3-for-3, scoring one run.

The NCU bats continued to roll in the second game. Cassie Bishop led off the game with a home run, her fifth of the season and school-record 12th of her career. Three batters later Davis crushed the record breaker, a two-run shot that staked the Beacons to a 3-0 lead.

Concordia, however, came back to tie the game in the bottom of the second inning, and after the Beacons made it 5-3 in the top of the third, the Cavs put it away in the bottom frame, scoring seven runs as twelve batters came to the plate, collecting nine hits. Concordia then ended the mercy-rule victory with three runs in the bottom of the sixth, capped off by a walk-off two-run triple by Kayla Vickaryous.

Bethany Dempster picked up her second victory of the day for Concordia, allowing five runs on 13 hits while striking out four batters. Kalyssa Koontz (4-8) ended her season on a bit of a sour note. The freshman was unable to get out of the third inning, finishing with 10 earned runs in 2.1 innings.

Five batters had multiple hits for the Beacons in game two, led by a 3-for-3 day for Gustafson. The top four batters in the lineup combined to go 8-for-14, with Bishop, Robles, Davis and Lissa Hatefi grabbing two hits apiece.

The Beacons had been scheduled for a double-header at Corban College on Saturday, but those games were cancelled due to poor field conditions after a weekend rain storm. Northwest Christian (12-19, 5-17) finishes the season with a sixth-place finish in the Cascade Collegiate Conference. The Beacons were two-wins better in the CCC than a year ago, and improved on their overall win total of ten from last season.

Robles finished the season hitting 38-for-99, to finish just one point ahead of the old single-season batting champ, Kathy Richard, who hit .383 in 2006. Robles also bumped her career batting average from .263 last year to .297, moving her to sixth on the all-time list.