Griz win 5-4, open league 3-0

The Montana softball team won its sixth straight game and opened its Big Sky Conference schedule 3-0 with a dramatic 5-4 victory over Portland State on Sunday afternoon at Grizzly Softball Field in Missoula. After winning 5-0 and 10-5 on Saturday as the three-game series opened, Sunday’s finale was tied 4-4 in the top of the sixth after the Vikings (10-22, 0-3 BSC) scored three runs to pull even. Second-year Griz coach Stef Ewing woke up Sunday morning expecting nothing different. “Anytime you have a Game 3 in a series, it’s going to be a dogfight,” she said. “There are…