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Christin
Songer ran her conscutive scoreless innings streak to
21 with a four-hit. seven-inning shutout at UC Davis. |
Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score
(April
19, 2008) - TThe UC Riverside softball team (18-26, 4-7) split
its doubleheader with UC Davis Saturday afternoon taking the
first game 1-0 and dropping the second 7-3.
Senior pitcher
Christin Songer extended her consecutive scoreless
innings streak to 21 in the first game by throwing seven blank
frames in a complete-game four-hitter. She last gave up a
run on March 29 against UC Santa Barbara. Songer now sports
a 1.97 earned run average in conference play with 24 strikeouts
in 32 innings.
Songer worked out of a jam in the first inning after giving
up a leadoff triple by striking out a pair and inducing Sarah
O'Neill to line out to right field. The Aggies put base runners
on in the second, third, fourth and sixth as well, but Songer
emerged unscathed on each occasion.
In the meantime, the Highlander offense was struggling managing
just two singles in the first five frames – one each
by
Marissa Alvidrez and
Veronica Yee. In the sixth, however,
Yee began the inning with a single and was moved to second
on an Alvidrez sacrifice bunt. Third baseman
Kristie Martinez
then ripped an RBI single up the middle scoring Yee with the
lone run of the ballgame.
In Game 2, Alvidrez took to the circle and allowed a UC Davis
run in the first before settling down over the next three
scoreless innings. The Highlanders trailed 1-0 heading into
the bottom of the fifth, which is when the wheels came off
the wagon. The Aggies sent ten batters to the plate, scoring
six to take a 7-0 lead.
UC Riverside battled back with a single run in the top of
the sixth and two in the seventh before loading the bases
with two outs and the tying run,
Katie Curtis, at the dish,
but she lined out to the leftfielder to end the game.
Notes: With 10 Big West games remaining,
the Highlanders need just two wins to break the school record
for Big West Conference wins in a season. The 2002 UCR squad
finished the season with five wins.
Alvidrez was making her first appearance since leaving the
first game of last Saturday's 2-0 win over Pacific after being
hit by a pitch on her left hand. She went 4 for 7 on the day
raising her Big West Conference leading batting average to
.455 and knocking in three of the Highlanders four runs.
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