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Christin
Songer (7-5) struck out 10 in the Highlanders 2-0 win
over Pacific in Game 1 of Saturday's doubleheader |
Highlanders Statistics
Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score
(April
12, 2008) - The UC Riverside softball team (16-25, 2-6) picked
up its second straight conference win Saturday in the first
game of a doubleheader with Pacific (22-24, 4-4).
Christin Songer (7-5) pitched a complete-game three-hitter
in the 2-0 win striking out 10. Pacific took game two of the
three-game series 5-1. The rubber match is scheduled for Sunday
at UCR's Amy S. Harrison Field at noon.
The Highlanders were without leading hitter
Marissa Alvidrez
(.448 avg, 522 obp, 767 slg) for all but one at bat on the
day as she was hit in the left hand with a pitch during her
first trip to the plate and did not return.
Despite scoring chances on both sides of the ledger, Game
1 remained scoreless until the UCR half of the fifth.
Roni
Yee walked to begin the inning and advanced to second on a
Brooke Hebenton sac bunt.
Kristie Martinez followed with a
fly ball to left field that bounced off Lindsey Pierce's glove
for an error, scoring Yee. Tricia Adgar pinch ran for Martinez
and was brought home moments later on a Taylor Thomas single.
Songer retired the Tigers in order in the top of the sixth,
and nailed down the win in the seventh allowing just a two-out
walk. With the win Songer is now alone in fifth place on the
Highlanders career win chart with 28. Her 10 strikeouts on
the day raise her career total to 267, 45 off the school mark
of 312 set from 1999-2002 by Monique Baeza.
Stephanie Marshall took to the circle in Game 2 for UCR, but
was unable get out of the third inning. She allowed three
hits and two walks in two-and-one-third innings as Pacific
plated three in the third to take a 3-0 lead. Amanda Klimczak
came on in relief and kept the Tigers in check through the
sixth, but the Highlanders managed just a lone run in the
fifth along the way. In
the seventh, Pacific tacked on two insurance runs to earn
a split of the doubleheader with a 5-1 win.
Notes: If UCR wins on Sunday, it
will be the third conference series win in the Highlanders'
Big West history. They last won a series back on May 3-4,
2003 when they won both games of a May 3 doubleheader at Utah
State. Their other Big West series win came on May 4-5, 2002
when they completed a three-game home sweep of Sacramento
State.
The Highlanders last won three conference games in a season
back in 2005 when they finished 3-18.
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