SOU softball coach Jessica Pistole, center, stands with Cayla Williams and Riley Donovan as they watch a new pitcher warm up earlier this spring in Ashland.

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Southern Oregon softball coach Jessica Pistole became a 500-game winner as the No. 2-ranked Raiders took both ends of a doubleheader Friday evening at Arizona Christian.

Katie Machado was on the winning end of a pitchers’ duel in a 1-0 Game 1 decision, then picked up an eight-out save after SOU’s offense came alive for a 5-1 victory in Game 2. The sweep made the Raiders 5-2 overall, and brought Pistole’s record with the team to 378-116 in her ninth season. The three-time NAIA Coach of the Year split the other 122 wins between five combined seasons at Biola (Calif.), Jessup (Calif.) and University of San Diego.

Machado pitched a complete-game shutout in the opener, allowing only two hits with three strikeouts and no walks. The Raiders pushed the lone run across in the sixth after Piper Love led off with a double down the right-field line. She moved to third base on a bunt and later scored via Kennedy Kila’s deep sacrifice fly into center.

Love, who went 4-for-6 on the day, started Game 2 by driving in a run with a single in the first inning. Still leading 1-0 in the bottom of the fourth, the Raiders called for a pitching change with two on as Mayze Menefee came on for Kila and got a strikeout to end the threat. In SOU’s next at-bat, Lina Sanchez added another run with an RBI blooper into right field.

Machado entered in relief in the fifth with runners on the corners and one out and escaped the jam. In the top of the sixth, Hailey Seva’s double down the third-base line drove in two runs. Hannah Clavelle added more insurance in the seventh with an RBI single off the left-field wall.

Machado, who improved to 3-0 on the season with the Game 1 win, closed out her save by allowing just an unearned run over the final two innings. Menefee got the decision.

Men’s Basketball

SOU 92, BUSHNELL 81: At Eugene, a 13-for-23 display from 3-point range, Southern Oregon’s best in a couple months, was the difference in a key Cascade Conference win.

Ethan Blythe and Elijah Jackson headed SOU’s long-distance barrage, Blythe by going 4-of-5 downtown and Jackson by hitting all three of his attempts from 3 as they respectively scored 12 and 11 points. Dominic McGarvey logged team-highs of 18 points, eight rebounds and two blocked shots while shooting 8-of-13 inside, Teron Bradford finished with 13 points, seven rebounds and five assists, and Casson Rouse scored 11 with five assists off the bench.

The Raiders (15-10, 13-6 CCC) entered the night in a three-way tie for the No. 4 seed in the conference, which would give them homecourt advantage in the quarterfinal round of the upcoming CCC Tournament. They dropped the Beacons (15-10, 12-7) out of the tie, while Corban fell out with a 79-74 loss to Oregon Tech.

The Raiders shot 53% from the field, their second-best clip of the season behind only a December trip to lowly Evergreen (Wash.). They led 45-41 at halftime thanks to Jackson’s 4-of-4 performance in seven minutes of action, then never trailed in the second half and were up by as many as 15 after Khalil Chatman’s three-point play with 14:30 to go.

Stevie Schlabach scored 21 to lead the Beacons.

Women’s Basketball

SOU 64, BUSHNELL 56: At Eugene, Southern Oregon hit depth-challenged Bushnell with a fourth-quarter storm for the second time in as many matchups, keeping pace in the Cascade Conference title race and its winning streak intact.

The No. 22-ranked Raiders (21-4, 17-2 CCC) picked up their 11th consecutive victory — and seventh straight on the road — by turning around a 48-44 deficit at the eight-minute mark with a 15-1 run that brought them inside the final minute. Four weeks ago, against the same Beacons (15-10, 11-8), they trailed by eight in the fourth before unleashing a 25-4 rally.

Kami Walk scored 11 of her team-high 19 points in the second half. Izzy Hernandez drilled all three of her 3-pointers in the first to finish with 15 points on 5-of-9 shooting, and Meghan McIntyre poured in 12 points, five assists, four steals and four rebounds.

Mallory Williams made a pair of 3s, and her second broke a tie while putting the Raiders up for good with 5:20 remaining. The run continued with buckets from Hernandez and McIntyre and free throws from Walk and Emma Schmerbach. As SOU constructed its push, the Beacons missed seven consecutive field goal attempts and threw in five turnovers.

Schmerbach accentuated the lopsided bench play with eight points, eight rebounds and two steals. The Beacons were led by Aspen Slifka’s 22 points and 10 rebounds.

The Raiders’ winning streak is their longest since the 2017-18 season.