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Game
1 Box Score
Game
2 Box Score
(April
24, 2008) - The UC Riverside softball team (18-29) lost both
ends of a non-conference doubleheader Thursday afternoon to
CSU Bakersfield (22-21) at Amy S Harrison Field as a series
of defensive lapses cost them in Game 1, and the team's bats
went collectively silent in Game 2.
Senior Christin Songer
(9-7) took to the circle for The Highlanders
in Game 1 and had the Roadrunners in check for most of the
afternoon. Although CSUB scored a single run in the second,
the Highlanders plated three in the third behind a two-RBI
single from Cassie Greenawalt
and a pinch-hit RBI from Brooke
Hebenton. UCR maintained that two-run advantage into the sixth
as Songer allowed just three total base runners in the third,
fourth and fifth frames.
Brooklyn Stuart began the Roadrunner sixth with a single and
Danielle Lyman reached on a fielder's choice. Consecutive
throwing errors by third baseman
Kristie Martinez gave CSUB two additional outs in the
inning while allowing a run to score. The Roadrunners scored
four more runs in the inning thanks to two singles, a walk,
a sac fly and a miscue on a fielder's choice opportunity.
UC Riverside still had the sixth and seventh innings to regain
the lead, but managed just a single base runner in each.
Veronica Yee
went three for four with a run scored in the
game and Katie Curtis and Greenawalt chipped in with two hits
apiece.
In Game 2 of the doubleheader, the Highlander bats were silenced
by CSU Bakersfield sophomore Katie Chavez (5-5) who gave up
just five hits and two walks in a seven-inning effort. UCR
starter Marissa Alvidrez (4-9) matched Chavez for most of
the game save for a four-run third inning that saw the Roadrunners
string together four hits around another Highlander defensive
miscue. The Highlander's lone run of the game came on an RBI
single off the bat of Roni Yee.
UCR returns to conference play with a three-game road series
at Long Beach State this weekend. Saturday's doubleheader
beings at 1 p.m. as does Sunday's single game.
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