After some tough luck during the North Medford Spring Break Invitational and a conference-opening sweep at the hands of the No. 1 softball team in the state, the Black Tornado found itself in an unfamiliar situation with a five-game losing streak.

Whatever bad vibes that may have created has gone by the wayside during the past week, however, and North Medford continued to surge Thursday with a 13-1 victory over South Eugene in Southwest Conference play.

The Black Tornado (8-6, 4-2 SWC) has now won four straight games leading into Monday’s doubleheader at South Medford, outscoring its opponents 43-7 over that span.

Junior pitcher Gabbi Urban limited the Axe (4-9, 1-6) to three hits Thursday, striking out 12 with three walks in a game played at Sheldon High.

Offensively, the Black Tornado broke out the bats to finish with 16 hits and used four-run outbursts in the third and fourth innings to break away for good from South Eugene.

Alexis Wadley got things going in the third with an RBI single, which was followed by an RBI triple from Rhyan Hamlin and run-scoring double by Samara Miles. Urban later added an RBI single.

Wadley again started the scoring in the fourth with an RBI single, with Urban capping the scoring surge on a two-run single.

Presley Lawton connected for a two-run double in the seventh inning and finished with three RBIs overall, while Urban was 4-for-5 with three RBIs and Miles went 4-for-5 with three runs and one RBI.

Hamlin posted a 2-for-4 effort with four runs and two RBIs, while Natalie Tlascala and Kaida DeHaven each added two hits for the Black Tornado.

North Medford 104 410 3 — 13 16 0

South Eugene 100 000 0 — 1 3 3

Urban and Lawton; Langan-Forbe and Ransford. W — Urban. L — Langan-Forbe. 2B — NM: Miles, Lawton, Tlascala. 3B — NM: Hamlin.

EAGLE POINT 24, CHURCHILL 8, 4 inn.: At Eugene, Jade Lierman, Jocelyn Hanan and Hailey Waldon each drove in four runs to propel Eagle Point to its fourth straight win in the Midwestern League contest.

Lierman also scored five times and Taylor Slayton went 2-for-4 with three runs and one RBI for the Eagles (8-3, 4-0 MWL), who were led inside the circle by freshmen Madisyn Dean and Brylee Leonardo.

Eagle Point 880 8 — 24 11 1

Churchill 400 4 — 8 8 4

Dean, Leonardo (4) and Slayton; Deedon, Pierson (3), Conway (4) and Wiscovich. W — Dean. L — Deedon. 2B — EP: Hanan 2, Mullen, Slayton; C: Schanze, Wiscovich. HR — EP: Lierman, Waldon; C: Phillips.

CASCADE CHRISTIAN 17-5, COQUILLE 2-3: McKenzie Bonner went 2-for-2 with three runs and four RBIs and Ashlyn Cooper pitched a one-hitter in the four-inning opener for Cascade Christian at Lithia & Driveway Fields.

Danika Brackett was 4-for-5 with four runs and two RBIs and Josie Scaglione drove in three runs in the opener for the Challengers (5-7, 4-2 FWL), who have won four straight games. Maile Scaglione and Cooper also added two RBIs apiece, and Michaela Lopez went 2-for-2 with two runs and one RBI.

Cooper struck out 10 in Game 2 and drove in two runs, while Bonner, Lopez and Katelynn Reed each had two hits.

FIRST GAME

Coquille 101 0 — 2 1 2

Cascade Chr. 163 7 — 17 14 1

Little and Mecca; Cooper and Brackett. W — Cooper. L — Little. 2B — CC: Bonner. 3B — CC: Brackett.

SECOND GAME

Coquille 210 000 0 — 3 7 1

Cascade Chr. 100 202 x — 5 11 3

Brugnoll and Mecca, Sanchez; Cooper and Brackett. W — Cooper. L — Brugnoll. 2B — CC: Cooper. 3B — C: Carn; CC: Bonner.

Baseball

NORTH MEDFORD 7, SOUTH EUGENE 2: At Eugene, Frankie Rutlgliano went 3-for-4 with four RBIs and Dominic Daffron went the distance and allowed five hits to boost North Medford to a Southwest Conference win.

Daffron struck out six with no walks for the Black Tornado (10-1-1, 6-0 SWC).

Trey Newmann hit a leadoff home run in the fourth inning to kick-start a five-run frame that included a two-run double by Rutigliano, who had a two-run single in the third.

Aiden Horsley went 2-for-4 with two runs and one RBI.

North Medford 002 500 0 — 7 8 2

South Eugene 000 101 0 — 2 5 2

Daffron and Robbins; Moses and Santiago. W — Daffron (3-0). L — Moses. 2B — NM: Rutigliano, Carr; SE: Lea. HR — NM: Newmann.

CASCADE CHRISTIAN 10-12, COQUILLE 0-1: Owen Thompson posted 16 strikeouts in 6⅔ innings with one hit allowed and Liam Benade went 2-for-5 with three RBIs in Game 1 to help spur Cascade Christian to a Far West League sweep at L&D Fields.

Triston Wallace went 3-for-3 with two runs and one RBI and CJ Bonner drove in a pair of runs in the opener for the Challengers (11-2, 6-0 FWL).

Cole Stofflet allowed five hits in the five-inning nightcap, with Ashton Moody and Wallace each connecting for home runs while Benade and Keith Reed had triples. Moody, Reed and Wallace finished with two RBIs apiece, and Bonner was 3-for-3 with one RBI.

FIRST GAME

Cascade Christian 100 114 3 — 10 10 0

Coquille 000 000 0 — 0 1 3

Thompson, Shields (7) and Wallace; Luckman, Hoyle (5), Fisher (6) and Houston. W — Thompson. L — Luckman. 2B — CC: Shields, Wallace. 3B — CC: Wallace.

SECOND GAME

Cascade Christian 036 12 — 12 12 1

Coquille 000 01 — 1 5 4

Stofflet and Wallace; Tucker and Luckman. W — Stofflet. L — Tucker. 2B — C: Ferren 2. 3B — CC: Reed, Benade. HR — CC: Moody, Wallace.