Junior outfielder Meara Sain continued to crush the ball last weekend in a four-game series sweep at NWC-rival Whitworth, earning her first Northwest Conference Softball Athlete of Week honor this season.
 
The Eugene, Oregon native went 8-for-13 at the dish (.615), notching eight doubles and a pair of home runs to drive in a team-high nine runs in the series. Linfield's bats cruised past Whitworth, ending three of the four games early via the run-rule. Sain slugged 1.462 in the four games, walking once and striking out just once in her 13 at bats.
 
Sain ranks as the Northwest Conference's top hitter with a .524 batting average and an OPS of 1.452. The junior also leads the NWC in doubles and on-base percentage. Nationally, the outfielder is No. 19 in batting average, No. 3 in doubles, No. 9 in hits and No. 17 in runs batted in. 
 
A former First Team All-NWC honoree, Sain is the daughter of Erin Moser and Dustin Sain and is currently majoring in Exercise Science at Linfield.
 
Softball is back on the road this weekend in Forest Grove, Oregon, taking on the Pacific Boxers in a four-game NWC series beginning Friday at 5 p.m. and Saturday at 1 p.m.
 
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