| 2008
Team Sets School Record For Conference Winning Percentage
Box Score
(May
10, 2008) - The 2008 UC Riverside softball season came to
a close Saturday afternoon with a 5-2 loss at Cal Poly, but
Friday's win in Game 1 of a double header guaranteed the Highlanders
the best conference winning percentage in school history since
the move to Division I. The win also tied the 2008 Highlanders
(19-37, 5-16) with the 2002 version for most Big West Conference
wins in a season.
Entering today's game, however, the Highlanders were looking
for their second conference series win of the season and they
sent senior Christin Songer
to the circle for the final time
in her UCR career. Things looked good for the Highlanders
in the early going as they struck for two runs in the top
of the second thanks to a Katie Curtis
homerun that scored
Cassie Greenawalt.
The Mustangs got a run back in the third and took the lead
with two in the fifth helped along by two Highlanders errors.
Cal Poly capitalized on another UCR error in the sixth to
plate two more runs and take a 5-2 lead into the seventh.
In the meantime, the Highlanders were having trouble generating
any offense as they picked up just one hit after the second
inning going in order in the third, fifth, sixth and seventh.
Notes Songer closed out her UC Riverside
career as the University's all-time leader in wins (31) and
strikeouts (292) in the Division I era. Kristie Martinez
graduates
having hit the third most homeruns (13) in Highlanders history
and knocked in the second most runs (83) in the Highlanders
seven years at Division I. April Murray finished her career
boasting the Highlanders D-I record for all-time stolen bases
(31) and the fourth most runs scored (87) in a career. Veronica
"Roni" Yee set the school Division I standard for
stolen bases in a season with 16 in 2008. Greenawalt
hangs up her spikes ranked in the UCR D-1 top 10 in career
hits (105) and walks (41).
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